let currentPlayer = AVPlayer()
if let currentItem = currentPlayer.currentItem {
let duration = currentItem.asset.duration
}
let currentTime = currentPlayer.currentTime()
let currentTime:Double = player.currentItem.currentTime().seconds
You can get the seconds of your current time by accessing the seconds property of the currentTime(). This will return a Double that represents the seconds in time. Then you can use this value to construct a readable time to present to your user.
First, include a method to return the time variables for H:mm:ss that you will display to the user:
Next, a method that will convert the values you retrieved above into a readable string:
func formatTimeFor(seconds: Double) -> String {
let result = getHoursMinutesSecondsFrom(seconds: seconds)
let hoursString = "\(result.hours)"
var minutesString = "\(result.minutes)"
if minutesString.characters.count == 1 {
minutesString = "0\(result.minutes)"
}
var secondsString = "\(result.seconds)"
if secondsString.characters.count == 1 {
secondsString = "0\(result.seconds)"
}
var time = "\(hoursString):"
if result.hours >= 1 {
time.append("\(minutesString):\(secondsString)")
}
else {
time = "\(minutesString):\(secondsString)"
}
return time
}
Now, update the UI with the previous calculations:
func updateTime() {
// Access current item
if let currentItem = player.currentItem {
// Get the current time in seconds
let playhead = currentItem.currentTime().seconds
let duration = currentItem.duration.seconds
// Format seconds for human readable string
playheadLabel.text = formatTimeFor(seconds: playhead)
durationLabel.text = formatTimeFor(seconds: duration)
}
}
Swift 5:
Timer.scheduledTimer seems better than addPeriodicTimeObserver if you want to have a smooth progress bar
static public var currenTime = 0.0
static public var currenTimeString = "00:00"
Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 1/60, repeats: true) { timer in
if self.player!.currentItem?.status == .readyToPlay {
let timeElapsed = CMTimeGetSeconds(self.player!.currentTime())
let secs = Int(timeElapsed)
self.currenTime = timeElapsed
self.currenTimeString = NSString(format: "%02d:%02d", secs/60, secs%60) as String
print("AudioPlayer TIME UPDATE: \(self.currenTime) \(self.currenTimeString)")
}
}
You can query the player directly to find the current time of the actively playing AVPlayerItem.
The time is stored in a CMTime Struct for ease of conversion to various scales such as 10th of sec, 100th of a sec etc
In most cases we need to represent times in seconds so the following will show you what you want
let currentTimeInSecs = CMTimeGetSeconds(player.currentTime())