Avplayer Hls Live Stream iOS

AVPlayer is not playing audio in a HLS video stream

Here, i am answering my own question. This issue happened because Shaka Packager (tool to generate HLS segments), did not add the AUTOSELECT=Yes option to the audio track in master .m3u8 file. So, AVPlayer skipped the audio track when playing the video file. This was fixed in the milestone v2.0

Live stream using AVPlayer not playing in iOS 11

Working Code with Live Video Stream

    @IBOutlet weak var player_View: UIView!
    var LQPlayer: AVPlayer?
    let LOW_URL = URL(string:"http://www.streambox.fr/playlists/test_001/stream.m3u8")!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

       self.avPlayerSetup()

         LQPlayer = AVPlayer.init(url: LOW_URL)
         let avPlayerView  = AVPlayerViewController()
         avPlayerView.view.frame = self.player_View.bounds
         avPlayerView.player = LQPlayer

        self.player_View.addSubview(avPlayerView.view)

    }

    func avPlayerSetup() {

         do {
            try audioSession.setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback)
           try audioSession.overrideOutputAudioPort(AVAudioSessionPortOverride.speaker)
            try audioSession.setActive(true)
        } catch {
            print("AVPlayer setup error \(error.localizedDescription)")
        }

    }

    func initPlayer() {
        LQPlayer = AVPlayer(url:LOW_URL)
        print("player allocated")
    }

    func deAllocPlayer() {
        LQPlayer = nil
        print("player deallocated")
    }

    @IBAction func playBtn(_ sender: Any) {
     //   initPlayer()
        LQPlayer?.play()
    }

    @IBAction func pauseBtn(_ sender: Any) {
        LQPlayer?.pause()
        deAllocPlayer()
    }

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