Background music stops when ignoreSilentSwitch="ignore" on iOS

[bmitioglov]

Bug

Background music stops when ignoreSilentSwitch="ignore"

Platform

Which player are you experiencing the problem on:

• iOS

Environment info

"^6.0.0-alpha.6" Device: iPhone 12 Pro, iOS: 16.5.1

Steps To Reproduce

1. Configure a video like this

<Video
          source={{uri: previewVideoLink}}  
          paused={true}                
          style={styles.backgroundVideo} 
          controls={true}
          ignoreSilentSwitch="ignore"
          resizeMode="cover"
          disableFocus={true}
          pictureInPicture={true}
        />

2. Start music in the background (Spotify for example), run the app, and open the view with this video component -> Spotify music stops.

3. It works correctly when I set ignoreSilentSwitch to obey, but I need to ignore the silent switch and at the same time not block other sounds. ...

Expected behaviour

1. Background music keeps playing unless I hit the play of my app video

Reproducible sample code

<Video
          source={{uri: previewVideoLink}}  
          paused={true}                
          style={styles.backgroundVideo} 
          controls={true}
          ignoreSilentSwitch="ignore"
          resizeMode="cover"
          disableFocus={true}
          pictureInPicture={true}
        />

[bmitioglov]

Downgraded to this version: "react-native-video": "^5.2.1", and now it works as expected, background music is playing until I hit play in the video. So looks like there is something wrong with the newer version (6.0.0-alpha.6).

[bmitioglov]

also, UI freeze is not there with the older version (when I was opening the view with the video it kind of waited until my video stream was loaded)

[freeboub]

I just try to reproduce this issue with react native video version. It seems to be fixed (we had some merged PR recently around this audio management feature). I will close the issue, let me know if I need to reopen. notice that I added in the sample:

        ignoreSilentSwitch="ignore"
        disableFocus={true}
        pictureInPicture={true}

Tested on emulator (which doesn't support pip, maybe that is the issue)

[ctriantaf]

@freeboub I'm using v6.4.5 and I can reproduce the issue in iOS in my current project.

Using only ignoreSilentSwitch="obey" will keep the background music playing - but that doesn't make sense to me. I would assume that muted={false} should be enough to prevent background music from pausing.

[freeboub]

@ctriantaf I think you should also enable https://thewidlarzgroup.github.io/react-native-video/component/props#playwheninactive and https://thewidlarzgroup.github.io/react-native-video/component/props#playinbackground

[ctriantaf]

@freeboub I tried enable both playWhenInactive and playInBackground and changing ignoreSilentSwitch="ignore" but the background music stops when the video is mounted. I'll stick to ignoreSilentSwitch="obey" for now as it seems to work.

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[bmitioglov]

Was it fixed in the new version?