How to play video with AVPlayerViewController (AVKit) in Swift

Swift 3.x - 5.x

Necessary: import AVKit, import AVFoundation

AVFoundation framework is needed even if you use AVPlayer

If you want to use AVPlayerViewController:

let videoURL = URL(string: "https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4")let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()playerViewController.player = playerself.present(playerViewController, animated: true) {    playerViewController.player!.play()}

or just AVPlayer:

let videoURL = URL(string: "https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4")let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)playerLayer.frame = self.view.boundsself.view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)player.play()

It's better to put this code into the method: override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) or somewhere after.

Objective-C

AVPlayerViewController:

NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4"];AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURL];AVPlayerViewController *playerViewController = [AVPlayerViewController new];playerViewController.player = player;[self presentViewController:playerViewController animated:YES completion:^{  [playerViewController.player play];}];

or just AVPlayer:

NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4"];AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURL];AVPlayerLayer *playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:player];playerLayer.frame = self.view.bounds;[self.view.layer addSublayer:playerLayer];[player play];

Try this, definitely works for Swift 2.0

 let player = AVPlayer(URL: url)    let playerController = AVPlayerViewController()    playerController.player = player    self.addChildViewController(playerController)    self.view.addSubview(playerController.view)    playerController.view.frame = self.view.frame    player.play()  

Try This

var player:AVPlayer!var avPlayerLayer:AVPlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)avPlayerLayer.frame = CGRectMake(your frame)self.view.layer .addSublayer(avPlayerLayer)var steamingURL:NSURL = NSURL(string:playerURL)player = AVPlayer(URL: steamingURL)player.play()