How can you obtain a current manifest from the playhead in AV player?

Question

I am currently trying to capture the currently playing HLS/DASH manifest in the AV player.

Would anyone have any code snippets/documentation that could help with it?

Answer 1

To access the current url that the avplayer is streaming from:

if let currAsset = player.currentItem.asset as? AVURLAsset {
    var url = currAsset.url
    ... use the url ...
}

Answer 2

I didn't find any official documentation about this either. I suppose then at the time of writing that AVPlayer does not provide the manifest.

Failing that, consider downloading the playlist and parse the manifest by your own.

I found M3U8Kit useful to parse m3u8 manifest.