Can't remove or stop AVPlayer
avplayer, ios, ios5, iphone
Solution
I know it's an old question, but it might be helpful to someone someday.
Since the playerLayer is being added as a `sublayer` and not as a `subview` it simply needs to be removed from its superlayer (instead of the superview) and the player should be set to nil, something like:
/* not sure if the pause/remove order would matter */
[playerLayer.player pause];
// uncomment if the player not needed anymore
// playerLayer.player = nil;
[playerLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
Problem
I have an AVPlayer that I load onto a new view whenever a link is clicked. ``` -(void)createAndConfigurePlayerWithURL:(NSURL *)movieURL sourceType:(MPMovieSourceType)sourceType { self.playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithURL:movieURL]; customControlOverlay = [[AFDetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"AFMovieScrubControl" bundle:nil]; backgroundWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow]; [customControlOverlay.view setFrame:backgroundWindow.frame]; [backgroundWindow addSubview:customControlOverlay.view]; playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:[AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem]]; [playerLayer.player play]; playerLayer.frame = customControlOverlay.view.frame; [customControlOverlay.view.layer addSublayer:playerLayer]; } ``` The code above adds the AVPlayer to my app and works fine. I have a toggle in my customControlOverlay nib that should remove the view and stop the AVplayer from playing. ``` -(IBAction)toggleQuality:(id)sender { if (qualityToggle.selectedSegmentIndex == 0) { NSLog(@"HD"); [playerLayer.player pause]; [self.view removeFromSuperview]; } else if (qualityToggle.selectedSegmentIndex == 1) { NSLog(@"SD"); } } ``` The view is removed correctly but the player still plays in the background. After testing a bit the player wont respond to any code in the toggleQuality method but strings I have there as checks are getting logged. Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?