Drag ZOWVideoPlayer folder into your project, then link MobileCoreServices.framework, CoreMedia.framework and AVFoundation.framework in your project Build Phases.

You can #import "ZOWVideoPlayer.h" and call

[self.videoPlayer playVideoWithURL:url];

to play a web video. In this way, you need to build video view yourself to sync the video behavior, for example, show loading indicator when video stucked. You can provide video view through a ZOWVideoPlayer.datasource, and receive event in ZOWVideoPlayer.delegate.

A ZOWVideoPlayerView is designed to handle the view issue besides the main video play process. You can subclass it to customize your own view behaviors.

You can play video through a ZOWVideoPlayerView subclass with

[self.videoView playVideoWithURL:url];

and the view itself will handle the video behaviors. Check the InstagramVideoView implementation example in the project to learn more about the subclassing.

If you want to stop a video, call [self.videoPlayer stopVideoPlay] or [self.videoView stopVideoPlay] to stop it. This will cancel the video buffering, remove the video layer and remove all the notifications. If you just want to pause the video, just call the pause method.

if video play stuck when loading, the player will pause and prebuffer a few seconds to provide a merely smooth video play.

when a web video finishes play, the video will be auto cached. And when the next time you play the video through the same url, the cached video will be played. You can customize the video cached path through the videoCachedDirectory property.

provide end action to define the behavior of the video when video play reaching the end. You can reset the video status or replay it or just pause it at the end.

on default, the video play will auto pause when enter background, and auto resume when enter foreground. Set autoResumeFromBackground to NO to avoid auto resume.