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    Avmedia_Errors

    Troubleshooting

    Use a network sniffer / firewall - man in the middle attack which snoops all your network requests.
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    debug hls streams

    AV Media | Foundation | Player Errors

    AVKit

    Impossible to stop AVPlayer

    impossible-to-stop-avplayer

    Blank Video but audio audible

    iOS 16.4 simulator bug for HLS streams. Confirmed on Apple developer website. Spent around 20 mins debugging what is wrong with my code overall.

    My own project POC

    AVPlayer

    Core Media 12746

    This error happened to me on Macbook Pro 16, macOS Sequioa, Xcode 16.2.0 beta 6, iOS 18.2 simulator. Playing a apple's test HLS AV asset Advance web stream.

    CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12746
Printing description of playerError:
â–¿ UnknownPlayerError
  - errorId : "UnknownPlayerError"
  - description : "AVPlayer Item Status Changed"
  - component : "com.nitro.core"
  â–¿ context : 2 elements
    â–¿ 0 : 2 elements
      - key : "NSLocalizedDescription"
      - value : "AVPlayer Item Status Changed"
    â–¿ 1 : 2 elements
      - key : "NSUnderlyingError"
      - value : Error Domain=CoreMediaErrorDomain Code=-12746 "(null)"
  â–¿ cause : Optional<Error>

    Solution

    • Kill coreAudio service or task running in background, Activity monitor.
    • Kill simulator
    • run the project again.

    SO | avPlayer-failure-hls

    CoreMediaErrorDomain error -16845

    - HTTP 429: (unhandled)), Error Status Code: -16845

    This occurred due to HTTP 429

    https://cdn.bitmovin.com/content/assets/sintel/hls/playlist.m3u8
Traffic rate limit of fair-use exceeded.

    Reference

    good AVKit errors gist