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[iOS] Player sometimes keeps seeking after view is unmounted

See original GitHub issue

This happens on remote video URLs.

Reproduction:

Create Video player with remote video URL (https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4)
Make it play (at this point you’ll notice an activity indicator show up at the top left in your status bar, which indicates that it is buffering the video)
Unmount the Video player by either navigating away or change a state variable that causes the player to not show
The activity indicator at the top left in the status bar will keep spinning (it should disappear)

I think this happens when the network request hasn’t finished responding and therefore the AVPlayerItem is stuck in seeking mode. I think that in the removeFromSuperview lifecycle, we need to call cancelPendingSeeks on the AVPlayerItem.

Issue Analytics

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:13 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

kshahkshahcommented, Sep 21, 2017

Yes, but is this going to blow up memory by pausing w/o unmounting. This seems like a serious issue if so.

1reaction

pribehcommented, Apr 24, 2019

Experiencing the same here. I’m not quite sure yet what isn’t unmounting but there is a memory leak for sure after a video is played.

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