How to add AVPlayerViewController to AVPlayerLayer in ios?

Question

This is my code, how to add this AVPlayerViewController to AVPlayerLayer and how to hide that layer if we click hideButton.

NSString *videoFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:self.string ofType:@"mp3"];
self.avPlayer = [[AVPlayer alloc]initWithURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:videoFilePath]];
self.avPlayerViewController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
self.avPlayerViewController.view.frame = CGRectMake(25,375,250,300);
self.avPlayerViewController.player = self.avPlayer;
[self.view addSubview:self.avPlayerViewController.view];
[self.avPlayerViewController.player play];

Answer 1

If you want to play Video in layer, then not required to add AVPlayerController.

The code will be like:

Declare this 2 variable at start:

AVPlayer *player;
AVPlayerLayer *playerLayer;

Add following method, and call it at viewDidLoad

-(void)setUpVideoPlayer
{
    AVAudioSession *audioSession = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];
    NSError *aErr;
    [audioSession setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient withOptions:AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionMixWithOthers error:&aErr];

    NSString *videoFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"videoFileName" ofType:@"videoFileType"];
    NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:videoFilePath];
    player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:fileURL];
    playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:player];
    [playerLayer setVideoGravity:AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill];
    playerLayer.frame = // Set Frame whichever you want;

    [self.videoView.layer addSublayer:playerLayer];

    [player seekToTime:kCMTimeZero];
    [player setVolume:0.0f];
    [player setActionAtItemEnd:AVPlayerActionAtItemEndNone];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(playerItemDidReachEnd:)
                                                 name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification
                                               object:[player currentItem]];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(playerStartPlaying)
                                                 name:UIApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification object:nil];
}

-(void)playerStartPlaying
{
    [player play];
}

-(void)playerItemDidReachEnd:(NSNotification*)notification
{
    AVPlayerItem *p = [notification object];
    [p seekToTime:kCMTimeZero]; // Play it again when video ends
}

Whenever you want to start video playing, call this method: [player play] , whenever you want to hide the layer, just hide the player layer and call [player pause] to stop player playing the video.