Impossible to play video in background with swiftui

I am starting on SwiftUI dev and I tried to create a Signin screen with a video playing in background. The Sign-in screen works fine but now it's time to make it nice.

I found on Internet this class below to play the video but I cannot make it build

import SwiftUI
import AVKit


struct VideoPlayerView: UIViewRepresentable {
    func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIView, context: UIViewRepresentableContext<VideoPlayerView>) {
    }
    
    func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UIView {
        return PlayerUIView(frame: .zero)
    }
}

class PlayerUIView: UIView {
    @State var urlLink = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "splash", ofType: "mp4")!
    private let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer()
    
    
    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        
       // guard let filePath = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "splash", ofType: "mp4") else { return }
        
        let player = AVPlayer(url: urlLink)
        //player.actionAtItemEnd = .none
        player.play()
        
        playerLayer.player = player
        playerLayer.videoGravity = .resizeAspectFill
        
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self,
                                               selector: #selector(playerItemDidReachEnd(notification:)),
                                               name: .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime,
                                               object: player.currentItem)

        layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
    }
    
    @objc func playerItemDidReachEnd(notification: Notification) {
        if let playerItem = notification.object as? AVPlayerItem {
            playerItem.seek(to: .zero, completionHandler: nil)
        }
    }
    
    required init?(coder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }
    
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        playerLayer.frame = bounds
    }
}


struct VideoPlayerView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {
        VideoPlayerView()
    }
}

The issue is on let player = AVPlayer(url: urlLink) where it complains that he cannot convert a string to URL.

I drag'n'drop my mp4 video into the assets' folder.

Any idea? I do not look to build a real player just having a video looping in background of my signin screen

Thanks

yes you have to use a different API for that. The current API you are using is only returning the string which is the path to your file. It's not a URL, And for that, you have to replace your code with the below line.

//Your code 
`Bundle.main.path(forResource: "splash", ofType: "mp4")!`
//with 
` URL(fileURLWithPath: Bundle.main.path(forResource: "", ofType: "")))

This will give you a URL for your file and you can load it on your AVPlayerLayer.

Now this is the whole solution you were trying to do.

import SwiftUI
import AVKit

struct VideoPlayerView: UIViewControllerRepresentable {
    let videoURL: URL

    func makeUIViewController(context: Context) -> AVPlayerViewController {
        let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL)
        player.isMuted = true
        player.play()
        
        let playerViewController = AVPlayerViewController()
        playerViewController.player = player
        
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(
            forName: .AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime,
            object: player.currentItem,
            queue: nil
        ) { _ in
            player.seek(to: .zero)
            player.play()
        }
        
        return playerViewController
    }
    
    func updateUIViewController(_ uiViewController: AVPlayerViewController, context: Context) {
    }
}

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            VideoPlayerView(videoURL: URL(fileURLWithPath: Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Video", ofType: "mp4")!))
                .frame(width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width, height: UIScreen.main.bounds.height)
            
            VStack {
                Text("Some UI elements")
                    .foregroundColor(.white)
                    .background(Color.black)
                    .font(.title)
                            
            }
            .padding()
        }
    }
}

Attaching working video.