Say you have a small video file
let p = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "small", ofType: "mp4")
let url = NSURL.fileURL(withPath: p!)
you can easily make it a player item and play it ..
let pi = AVPlayerItem(url: url)
av.player = AVPlayer(playerItem: pi)
Alternately, you can make it an AVURLAsset and then get one of the tracks
asset = AVURLAsset(url: url)
let tracks:[AVAssetTrack] = asset!.tracks
print(tracks.count)
let track:AVAssetTrack = tracks[2]
How then ....... do you play one of the tracks??
how do you play an AVAssetTrack ??
Here is the code that shows how you can create an AVMutableComposition
containing only your desired track and then play the composition as you would play any AVAsset
because, perhaps surprisingly considering the name, it is one:
let asset = AVURLAsset(url: url)
let track = asset.tracks[1] // or whatever
let composition = AVMutableComposition()
let compositionTrack = composition.addMutableTrack(withMediaType: track.mediaType, preferredTrackID: kCMPersistentTrackID_Invalid)
try! compositionTrack?.insertTimeRange(CMTimeRange(start: .zero, duration: asset.duration), of: track, at: .zero)
let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: composition) // play me in your AVPlayer
N.B. in real life tracks
and duration
should probably be loaded asynchronously.