JSBox video player based on AVPlayerViewController

player.js

const frameworks = ["AVFoundation", "AVKit"];
frameworks.forEach(name => {
  $objc("NSBundle").$bundleWithPath(`/System/Library/Frameworks/${name}.framework`).$load();
});

const gravities = {
  resize: "AVLayerVideoGravityResize",
  resizeAspect: "AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspect",
  resizeAspectFill: "AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill",
}

function play(src, {
  showsPlaybackControls = true,
  videoGravity = "resizeAspect",
  allowsPictureInPicturePlayback = true,
  updatesNowPlayingInfoCenter = true,
  entersFullScreenWhenPlaybackBegins = false,
  exitsFullScreenWhenPlaybackEnds = false,
} = {}) {

  const url = (() => {
    if (/^(http|https):\/\//i.test(src)) {
      return $objc("NSURL").$URLWithString(src);
    } else {
      return $objc("NSURL").$fileURLWithPath($file.absolutePath(src));
    }
  })();
  
  const player = $objc("AVPlayer").$playerWithURL(url);
  player.$play();

  const playerVC = $objc("AVPlayerViewController").$new();
  playerVC.$setPlayer(player);
  playerVC.$setShowsPlaybackControls(showsPlaybackControls);
  playerVC.$setVideoGravity(gravities[videoGravity]);
  playerVC.$setAllowsPictureInPicturePlayback(allowsPictureInPicturePlayback);
  playerVC.$setUpdatesNowPlayingInfoCenter(updatesNowPlayingInfoCenter);
  playerVC.$setEntersFullScreenWhenPlaybackBegins(entersFullScreenWhenPlaybackBegins);
  playerVC.$setExitsFullScreenWhenPlaybackEnds(exitsFullScreenWhenPlaybackEnds);

  const rootVC = $ui.controller.ocValue();
  rootVC.$presentViewController_animated_completion(playerVC, true, null);
}

exports.play = play;

// Example (http/https, or local path)
const src = "https://images.apple.com/media/cn/ipad-pro/2017/43c41767_0723_4506_889f_0180acc13482/films/feature/ipad-pro-feature-cn-20170605_1280x720h.mp4";

// Optional, refer: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/avkit/avplayerviewcontroller
const options = {
  showsPlaybackControls: true,
  videoGravity: "resizeAspect", // resize, resizeAspectFill
  allowsPictureInPicturePlayback: true,
  updatesNowPlayingInfoCenter: true,
  entersFullScreenWhenPlaybackBegins: false,
  exitsFullScreenWhenPlaybackEnds: false,
}

play(src, options);