Screen flashes black between displaying thumbnail image and playing video.

[kselvin]

Is there anyway around this?

It would be great for the video to start playing without the view needing to flash black and show that loading wheel. So it could go straight from showing thumbnail to playing, as if the thumbnail was really the first frame of the video

Code
mmPlayerLayer.thumbImageView.image = cell.postThumbnailImgV.image
// set video where to play
mmPlayerLayer.playView = cell.postThumbnailImgV
self.mmPlayerLayer.set(url: URL(string: playURL))

[iPhonig]

@kselvin I ran into this as well, my solution was that I had my own thumbnail image view on top of the video container that MMPlayerView resides in and once loading is finished (when the activity indicator disappears) I then hide my thumbnail view. That being said its just a work around and @MillmanY if you could speak to this that would be helpful!

[kselvin]

Great work around. I'd also want the loading wheel to show above the thumbnail (big videos that are slow to load sometimes). I guess I could put an additional loading wheel on top of my own thumbnail view but feels pretty hacky. Would be awesome if there is an easier way to solve this

[Rijalab]

@MillmanY @iPhonig Is there a simpler way to resolve the black screen appearing in between playing video.

I thought of prefetching video data as MMPlayerCache. So the playback will play instantly. Is there any options like that ??