AVPlayer not working with AirPlay

Question

I have a sequence of AVMutableCompositions that I am playing with AVPlayer. Everything works great when I am playing via speaker, headphones, or bluetooth. However, as soon as I connect to AirPlay, everything falls apart.

I can play one asset, and I try to switch to a new asset, I get an AVAudioSessionMediaServicesWereResetNotification and the device disconnects from AirPlay. I tried exporting the AVMutableCompositions to files and then using AVURLAssets, but this didn't seem to change anything.

Does anyone know what is going on here? It looks like I won't be able to support AirPlay...

I get the feeling that I could switch to AVAudioPlayer and this would fix the problem, but I am generating dozens of AVMutableCompositions and don't want to be reading and writing them to disk.

Vezza

Answer 1

This is counter-intuitive, but try setting

myPlayer.allowsExternalPlayback = NO;

The documentation is not completely clear on this, but it seems that this will disallow video playback only. When I do this in my app (which uses AVPlayer), Airplay with an AVComposition works. Even the artwork shows up nicely (via an MPNowPlayingInfoCenter).

Tannin

you're right. It disables video only, the sound stills play on the Apple TV – Milli

I can also confirm it allows audio but disables video. How can you make it so that also video will get through? – Impromptu