AVPlayer: How to Build a Video Player for iOS?
AVPlayer is a simple class that enables you to manage an audio visual playback on iOS. Audio visual means you can manage both audio playback and as well as video playback.
AVPlayer is the heart of playing videos on iOS.
A player object can start and stop your videos, change their playback rate and even turn the volume up and down. Think of a player as a controller object that’s able to manage playback of one media asset at a time. The framework also provides a subclass of class, called AVQueuePlayer, you use to create and manage the queuing of media assets played sequentially.
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