Avplayer Seektotime Not Working Properly

AVPlayer seekToTime not working properly

Maybe your tolerance before is not set right. try the Following:

instead of your code:

  let offsetTime = scrollView.contentOffset.y * 0.1
  let seekTime : CMTime = CMTimeMake(Double(offsetTime), 1000)
self.playerController.player?.seekToTime(seekTime, toleranceBefore: kCMTimeZero, toleranceAfter: kCMTimeZero)

• the Time Scale tells how many units you have per second
• Also, toleranceBefore should ALSO be kCMTimeZero

hope this Helps :-)

AVPlayer seekToTime not working correctly

I tried to play your URL in Safari and it does play but says its live broadcast and does not allow your to seek, same with Chrome browser and I also tried to play it with my own AVPlayer on iPhone and it does not seek.

It simply mean that we can not seek live broadcast.

Swift AVPlayer seekToTime issue

For AVPlayer, there are different ways to let the play seeking time;

player.seekToTime(<#time: CMTime#CMTime#>)

for this method,player will seek to seekingTime quickly but not seeking the exactly where the seekingTime is, it means there will be some offset of the seekingTime.

Apple's Doc

Use this method to seek to a specified time for the current player item.

The time seeked to may differ from the specified time for efficiency.

For sample accurate seeking see seekToTime:toleranceBefore:toleranceAfter:.

player.seekToTime(<#T##time: CMTime##CMTime#>, completionHandler: <#T##(Bool) -> Void#>)

for this method,player will seek to seekingTime quickly and also,with the offset,you can do something with completionHandler

Apple's Doc

Use this method to seek to a specified time for the current player item and to be notified when the seek operation is complete.

The completion handler for any prior seek request that is still in process will be invoked immediately with the finished parameter

set to NO. If the new request completes without being interrupted by another seek request or by any other operation the specified

completion handler will be invoked with the finished parameter set to YES.

If you want to seeking more accurate, use the following method instead

player.seekToTime(<#T##time: CMTime##CMTime#>, toleranceBefore: <#T##CMTime#>, toleranceAfter: <#T##CMTime#>)

player.seekToTime(<#T##time: CMTime##CMTime#>, toleranceBefore: <#T##CMTime#>, toleranceAfter: <#T##CMTime#>, completionHandler: <#T##(Bool) -> Void#>)

this method will let the player seeking to specified time you asking,but will be slower(well..mostly depending on current media)

Apple's Doc

Use this method to seek to a specified time for the current player item.

The time seeked to will be within the range [time-toleranceBefore, time+toleranceAfter] and may differ from the specified time for efficiency.

Pass kCMTimeZero for both toleranceBefore and toleranceAfter to request sample accurate seeking which may incur additional decoding delay.

Messaging this method with beforeTolerance:kCMTimePositiveInfinity and afterTolerance:kCMTimePositiveInfinity is the same as messaging seekToTime: directly.

i've notice that current you are using

avPlayer?.currentItem?.seekToTime(CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(secondo, frameRate))

you can try to use this method to seeking the specified time
(slower of course)

avPlayer?.currentItem?.seekToTime(CMTimeMakeWithSeconds(secondo, frameRate), toleranceBefore: kCMTimeZero, toleranceAfter: kCMTimeZero)

Wish could help u out

AVPlayer seek not always accurate

Default tolerance value is infinity(when not specified), but usually real difference from the requested value is about a second - this allows seek to be fast.

If in your case it is jumping to the file start, it's probably because your file was not correctly encoded.

If you cannot change source of your files, the best you can do is specifying tolerance more than zero, but not too big. Like ±1 sec. The less tolerance you have the longer seek would perform, so try to find some balance.

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