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In everyone’s rush to make the next Candy Crush one of the more interesting features of iOS7’s new SpriteKit framework has flown under the radar. The SKVideoNode suddenly makes it super easy to play multiple videos simultaneously, something that was a little too tedious with the AVFoundation framework (see my previous blog post on this), … Continue reading Multiple Videos Playing Simultaneously The Easy Way With SpriteKit
AVQueuePlayer allows you to queue up a “playlist” of videos which are then automatically played one after the other. You can also set up a Notification to listen for changes in the AVQueuePlayer’s AVPlayerItems and then build custom code to repeat, skip or add new video items to the queue. This tut follows on from … Continue reading Video On The iPhone Tutorial Part 4, using AVQueuePlayer to play a series of videos in sequence
I come from a Flash background and something I’m use to doing a lot of in Flash is creating video walls (playing several videos at the same time). There are a lot of situations where you might want to do this, say having multiple video thumbnails playing, or a main video with another “talking head” … Continue reading Video On The iPhone Tutorial Part 3, playing multiple videos simultaneously
Part 2 This tutorial continues on from the Video On The iPhone Tutorial Part 1, so we’ll just be adding code to that project, I suggest you do that tut first or just download the finished project files and continue on. Alright so let’s add a spinning preloader that gives the user some feedback that … Continue reading Video On The iPhone Tutorial Part 2
I’m currently working on a project at work that needs to have multiple small videos playing in an iPhone app all at one time. So in this series of tutorials I’m going to go through the process of playing video using the MediaPlayer Framework, starting with the simplest implementation of just pulling a video In … Continue reading Video On The iPhone Tutorial Part 1