Recommended usage in UITableView

[ebalassanian]

What is the recommended usage for showing videos in UITableViews where multiple cells can have video shown in them? In my case, only one video should be playing at a given time. Is it better to associate a VIMVideoPlayer per cell or to have one VIMVideoPlayer associated with the UITableView that reset it's URL based on the UITableViewCell?

[cameronehrlich]

You could obtain a reference to an VIMVideoPlayer ivar self.currentPlayer, then when any subsequent video is triggered to play, you can call [self.currentPlayer pause] or [self.currentPlayer reset] from within the method that triggers the next video and reassign self.currentPlayer = newPlayerFromCell.

Also, make sure you properly override - prepareForReuse in your UITableViewCell subclass.

[ebalassanian]

A follow up question to this... is there a best practice to preload videos so when cells are visible the video does not have to wait for buffering to playback? e.g. is there a way to have the vimplayer preload the data for playback?