tvOS Playing a Video

So I'd like to play a Video in an Apple TV App.

I need to look into Player from the TVJS Lib.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/tvos/documentation/TVMLJS/Reference/TVJSPlayer\_Ref/index.html#//apple\_ref/javascript/cl/Player

Forum

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/17338?sr=stream&ru=377

https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/52011#52011

https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/53126#53126 I can play a Video using AVPlayer but need to look into the controls

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application.js

function launchPlayer() {
  var player = new Player();
  var playlist = new Playlist();
  var mediaItem = new MediaItem(
    "video",
    "http://trailers.apple.com/movies/focus_features/9/9-clip_480p.mov"
  );
  player.playlist = playlist;
  player.playlist.push(mediaItem);
  player.present();
}

//in application.js
App.onLaunch = function (options) {
  launchPlayer();
};

PlayerViewController.m

NSString *filepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"FILENAME" ofType:@"mp4"];
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filepath];
self.avPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:fileURL];

AVPlayerLayer *layer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:self.avPlayer];
self.avPlayer.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEndNone;
layer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1024, 768);
[self.view.layer addSublayer: layer];

[self.avPlayer play];

I'd prefer to create the view using the TVML as the 'Compilation.xml' seems to be the perfect fit for it.

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Finally found out that the videos files can't be running under python.

If you change the URL to a file on the web it works fine.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32518673/setting-up-apple-tv-video-javascript

I think you're using the Python SimpleHTTPServer for your test, it did not worked for video streaming, but if you use Apache or for example this file directly from apple "http://trailers.apple.com/movies/focus_features/9/9-clip_480p.mov" it will work. user2418630

This is correct. I think video playback requires that the server supports, among other things, byte-range requests. –  lemnar

Blogs

http://martinnormark.com/playing-video-on-apple-tv-with-tvos/

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