.avi file video not play in MPMoviePlayerController ios player

Question

I'm using MPMoviePlayerController to play avi formatted video files. The audio works, but the video doesn't. Why is that?

Answer 1

I think you cannot play .avi file using MPMoviePlayerController in ios.

As .avi format contents are not possible to decode the video on a iOS device.

Answer 2

MPMoviePlayerViewController only supports .mov, .mp4,.mpv, and .3gp and is deprecated.

From Apple's documentation:

The MPMoviePlayerViewController class is formally deprecated in iOS 9. (The MPMoviePlayerController class is also formally deprecated.) To play video content in iOS 9 and later, instead use the AVPictureInPictureController or AVPlayerViewController class from the AVKit framework, or the WKWebView class from WebKit.

You should use AVPlayerViewController:

import AVFoundation
import AVKit

let videoPath = "https://video.avi"
let videoURL = URL(string: videoPath)
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)
let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
playerViewController.player = player
present(playerViewController, animated: true) {
    playerViewController.player?.play()
}

or just add AVPlayer in as a subview:

let videoURL = URL(string: videoPath)
let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL!)
let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
playerLayer.frame = self.view.bounds
view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
player.play()

it supports the following audio/video formats: .mpeg, .mpeg-2-video, .avi, .aifc-audio, .aac-audio, .mpeg-4, .au-audio, .aiff-audio, .mp2, .3gpp2, .ac3-audio, .mp3, .mpeg-2-transport-stream, .3gpp, .mpeg-4-audio