play video forever in sprite kit

Question

i am having an issue with playing back a video in my intro scene. i have added my video to the scene and it plays fine. i just want it to repeat again and again. is there any way to set this video to playback automatically after it ends?

this is how i add the video:

SKVideoNode *videoNode = [SKVideoNode videoNodeWithVideoFileNamed:@"game1.m4v"];
videoNode.position = CGPointMake(150, 180);
videoNode.size = CGSizeMake(150, 150);
[self addChild:videoNode];
[videoNode play];

any help is appreciated.

If you initialize with initWithAVPlayer you can use this code to loop your video: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5361145/looping-a-video-with-avfoundation-avplayer — sangony, Mar 02 '15 at 17:05
Yes, if you use the above referenced init which uses an AVPlayer. You can then use the linked code to create a message which in turn loops. Alternately you could probably also use a block to time and re-run your video. — sangony, Mar 02 '15 at 17:25
@sangony, thank you for the link. it did the job. can you please post it as an answer so i can mark it for you, and thank you again. — Adrian P, Mar 02 '15 at 17:54

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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Initialize your SKVideoNode with:

- (instancetype)initWithAVPlayer:(AVPlayer *)player

When setting up the AVPlayer use:

avPlayer.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEndNone; 

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(playerItemDidReachEnd:)
                                             name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification
                                           object:[avPlayer currentItem]];

this will prevent the player to pause at the end.

In the notification:

-(void)playerItemDidReachEnd:(NSNotification *)notification {
    AVPlayerItem *p = [notification object];
    [p seekToTime:kCMTimeZero];
}

this will rewind the movie.

(Credit to Bastian for his answer to this question)

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Mar 02 '15 at 18:00

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It's bizarre, if you don't set the actionAtItemEnd or manually play the AVPlayer prior to initializing the video node, you'll get 2 notifications rather one when playback has completed. I guess one for rewinding and one for the playback completion due to it pausing on default, but then again why would that change if you play the player manually. – TheCodingArt Dec 30 '15 at 16:06
I'm getting a memory leak with this exact same implementation. Is anyone else seeing a memory leak? It appears to be when looping a video with AVPlayer and SKVideoNode. – Solsma Dev Nov 16 '16 at 19:23

play video forever in sprite kit

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