An AVFoundation Playground for displaying video via AVPlayer

AVPlayerPlayground.swift

//: An `AVFoundation` Playground for playing video with `AVPlayer`. Using just a bare `AVPlayer`, there will be no playback controls.
  
import UIKit
import PlaygroundSupport
import AVFoundation

class MyViewController : UIViewController {
    
    // Other example streams can be found here: https://developer.apple.com/streaming/examples/
    let url = URL(string: "http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8")!
    
    func setupPlayer() {
        let player = AVPlayer(url: url)
        let playerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
        playerLayer.frame = view.frame
        view.layer.addSublayer(playerLayer)
        player.play()
    }
    
    override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)
        setupPlayer()
    }
}

PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = MyViewController()