How can I avoid the AVPlayerLayer `setPlayer` audio stream?

Question

I have an application that plays videos using AVPlayer and AVPlayerLayer . In my application, I can play audio when the application is locked by setting the player property of my AVPlayerLayer to nil when the application goes into the background:

 -(void)appEnteredBackgroundNotification:(NSNotification *)notification { [[self playerLayer] setPlayer:nil]; } 

However, when I do this, the sound will lag / reset by about 0.5 seconds. This is really very bad for the end user. The same thing happens when the application comes to the forefront and I re-set the player property.

How can I avoid this sound? As a test, I tried to remove the player in the background thread to no avail.

Update: I spoke with an Apple engineer at WWDC, and they said that this problem is a bug at their end (until it is fixed in iOS 9), and this approach is the right approach. Big...

Answer 1

I think you cannot call pause before setting to nil and vice versa. And try calling prepare before play .