Fireplace

Offline playback of a fireplace video on your Apple TV

Screenshots

Bring Your Own Video

For copyright reasons the file fire.mp4 is not included. It can be supplied for example in the following way:

• Search for “fireplace 4k” on YouTube, choose a video
• Show video and audio formats and file sizes youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=Ux8xAuQBdkk --list-formats
• Choose a video of acceptable size
• Download it youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=Ux8xAuQBdkk --format 137 --output video.m4v
• Choose an audio track of acceptable size
• Download it youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=Ux8xAuQBdkk --format 140 --output audio.m4a
• Combine them ffmpeg -i video.m4v -i audio.m4a -c:v copy -c:a copy fire.mp4
• Drag & drop the resulting file fire.mp4 into Xcode and add it as an asset that is bundled on build
  • Project -> Build Phases -> Copy Bundle Resources -> fire.mp4 must appear in the list

Resources

• Source for video player code
• Apple’s Sketch template for tvOS assets
• Blog post on other image asset usage

TODO

• Loop video when end is reached

GitHub

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