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Youtube to AVPlayer

robertiii

I have used the youtube_dl to get the url of a Youtube video.

info = ydl.extract_info(url, download=False)

This returns the following url:

https://r4---sn-vgqs7nlz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?mt=1505334594&ratebypass=yes&signature=596BCBA425C6E8C20A80D257CE4990A62569894C.A22CF88489DA562D5FCBF19911DDE06331309870&itag=22&requiressl=yes&lmt=1500789596718526&expire=1505356296&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&initcwndbps=1535000&key=yt6&id=o-APiaBd-L8gpN0zAzCgbcQUfWmpHNLAtSd7cCdRaht18S&mn=sn-vgqs7nlz&ipbits=0&mm=31&ms=au&ei=qJW5WZ-eJs3UDeG5kbAH&mv=m&dur=259.854&source=youtube&pl=15&mime=video%2Fmp4&ip=68.38.103.146

Now, how do I get this to play in an Objc avplayer?

JonB

why not just play in a webview?