--- title: ASVideoNode layout: docs permalink: /docs/video-node.html prevPage: network-image-node.html nextPage: map-node.html --- `ASVideoNode` provides a convenient and performant way to display videos in your app.

Note: If you use `ASVideoNode` in your application, you must link `AVFoundation` since it uses `AVPlayerLayer` and other `AVFoundation` classes under the hood.

### Basic Usage The easiest way to use `ASVideoNode` is to assign it an `AVAsset`.

ASVideoNode *videoNode = [[ASVideoNode alloc] init];

AVAsset *asset = [AVAsset assetWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4"]];
videoNode.asset = asset;

let videoNode = ASVideoNode()

let asset = AVAsset(url: URL(string: "http://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.mp4")!)
videoNode.asset = asset

### Autoplay, Autorepeat, and Muting You can configure the way your video node reacts to various events with a few simple `BOOL`s. If you'd like your video to automaticaly play when it enters the visible range, set the `shouldAutoplay` property to `YES`. Setting `shouldAutoRepeat` to `YES` will cause the video to loop indefinitely, and, of course, setting `muted` to `YES` will turn the video's sound off. To set up a node that automatically plays once silently, you would just do the following.

Swift Objective-C

videoNode.shouldAutoplay = YES;
videoNode.shouldAutorepeat = NO;
videoNode.muted = YES;

videoNode.shouldAutoplay = true
videoNode.shouldAutorepeat = false
videoNode.muted = true

### Placeholder Image Since video nodes inherit from `ASNetworkImageNode`, you can use the `URL` property to assign a placeholder image. If you decide not to, the first frame of your video will automatically decoded and used as the placeholder instead.

### ASVideoNode Delegate There are a ton of delegate methods available to you that allow you to react to what's happening with your video. For example, if you want to react to the player's state changing, you can use:

Swift Objective-C

- (void)videoNode:(ASVideoNode *)videoNode willChangePlayerState:(ASVideoNodePlayerState)state toState:(ASVideoNodePlayerState)toState;

videoNode(_:willChange:to:)

The easiest way to see them all is to take a look at the `ASVideoNode` header file.