Hi,
I have an app that displays tens of short (<1mb) mp4 videos stored in a remote server in a vertical UICollectionView that has horizontally scrollable sections.
I'm caching all mp4 files on disk after downloading, and I also have a in-memory cache that holds a limited number (around 30) of players. The players I'm using are simple views that wrap an AVPlayerLayer and its AVPlayerItem, along with a few additional UI components.
The scrolling performance was good before iOS 26, but with the release of iOS 26, I noticed that there is significant stuttering during scrolling while creating players with a fileUrl. It happens even if use the same video file cached on disk for each cell for testing.
I also started getting this kind of log messages after the players are deinitialized:
<<<< PlayerRemoteXPC >>>> signalled err=-12785 at <>:1107
<<<< PlayerRemoteXPC >>>> signalled err=-12785 at <>:1095
<<<< PlayerRemoteXPC >>>> signalled err=-12785 at <>:1095
There's also another log message that I see occasionally, but I don't know what triggers it.
<< FigXPC >> signalled err=-16152 at <>:1683
Is there anyone else that experienced this kind of problem with the latest release?
Also, I'm wondering what's the best way to resolve the issue. I could increase the size of the memory cache to something large like 100, but I'm not sure if it is an acceptable solution because:
1- There will be 100 player instance in memory at all times.
2- There will still be stuttering during the initial loading of the videos from the web.
Any help is appreciated!
