Apple TV doesn't send UIEvents to device while AVPlayer is playing video in external playback mode

Originator:klausa
Number:rdar://16096783 Date Originated:18-Feb-2014 03:31 PM
Status:Closed Resolved:
Product:iOS SDK Product Version:Any
Classification:Enhancement Reproducible:Always
 
AVPlayer supports "External Playback Mode", which allows users to play videos on Apple TV or other supported AirPlay device, without developers having to do, well, anything. 
You can get status of such playback doing KVO on AVPlayer properties like rate and loadedTimeRanges, but you don't get any UIEvent objects, that would allow you to respond to users input from Apple Remote or AirPlay device controls in 
- (void) remoteControlReceivedWithEvent: (UIEvent *) receivedEvent.

That makes it impossible to implement app that for whatever reason don't want to allow users to forward/skip backward in video (e.g. fitness app that tracks your progress or flashcard type learning help app).

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By klausa at July 1, 2015, 12:23 p.m. (reply...)

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