SCNRenderer not rendering the AVPlayer

[sasikumar-mobiotics]

When we use AVPlayer in the scenekit, that is not rendering. Just audio only playing.

If you have any solution please let me know.

[palle-k]

Hi, can you share some example code?

[sasikumar-mobiotics]

Thanks for your quick response, Please find the below sample code.

import UIKit
import GVRKit
import GVRSCNRenderer
import SceneKit
import AVKit
import CoreMotion
import GLKit
import SpriteKit

class VRViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var rendererView: UIView!
    var player: AVPlayer?
    var playerObserver: NSKeyValueObservation?
    var scene: SCNScene!
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }
    override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)
        guard let scene = SCNScene(named: "room-preset.scn") else { return  }
        self.scene = scene
        let renderer = GVRSCNRenderer(scene: scene)
        renderer.pause(false)
        renderer.rendererDelegate = self
        //        renderer.vrModeEnabled = true
        let view = GVRRendererView(renderer: renderer)
        //        view?.vrModeEnabled = true
        view?.paused = false
        view?.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        view?.frame = rendererView.bounds
        rendererView.addSubview(view!)
        NSLayoutConstraint(item: view!, attribute: .leading, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: rendererView, attribute: .leading, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0).isActive = true
        NSLayoutConstraint(item: view!, attribute: .trailing, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: rendererView, attribute: .trailing, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0).isActive = true
        NSLayoutConstraint(item: view!, attribute: .top, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: rendererView, attribute: .top, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0).isActive = true
        NSLayoutConstraint(item: view!, attribute: .bottom, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: rendererView, attribute: .bottom, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0).isActive = true
    }
    override var preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation: UIInterfaceOrientation {
        return .landscapeLeft
    }
    override var supportedInterfaceOrientations: UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
        return .landscapeLeft
    }
    override var shouldAutorotate: Bool {
        return true
    }
    func startNewPlayer() {
        if player != nil {
            return
        }
        let asset = AVURLAsset(url: URL(string: "https://bitdash-a.akamaihd.net/content/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8")!)
        let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: asset, automaticallyLoadedAssetKeys: [#keyPath(AVAsset.tracks), #keyPath(AVAsset.duration)])
        player = AVPlayer(playerItem: playerItem)
        playerObserver = playerItem.observe(\.status, options:  [.new, .old], changeHandler: {[weak self] (playerItem, change) in
            guard let strongSelf = self else {return}
            if playerItem.status == .readyToPlay {
                strongSelf.playerObserver?.invalidate()
                strongSelf.playerObserver = nil
                let videoSize = playerItem.asset.tracks(withMediaType: .video).first?.naturalSize ?? CGSize(width: 640, height: 480)
                var videoNode: SKVideoNode!
                let videoScene = SKScene(size:videoSize)
                videoNode = SKVideoNode(avPlayer: strongSelf.player!)
                videoNode.position = CGPoint(x: videoScene.size.width/2, y: videoScene.size.height/2)
                videoNode.size = videoScene.size
                videoNode.yScale = -1
                videoNode.play()
                videoScene.addChild(videoNode)
                guard let video = strongSelf.scene.rootNode.childNode(withName: "TVSCREEN", recursively: true) else { return }
                video.geometry?.firstMaterial?.diffuse.contents = videoScene
                video.geometry?.firstMaterial?.isDoubleSided = false
            }
        })
    }
}
extension VRViewController: SCNSceneRendererDelegate {
    func renderer(_ renderer: SCNSceneRenderer, didRenderScene scene: SCNScene, atTime time: TimeInterval) {
        startNewPlayer()
    }
}

[palle-k]

Thanks, I will look into it.