I have a lot of long (45 mins - 90 mins) MP4 videos in a public S3 bucket and I want to play them in my iOS app using AVPlayer.

I am using AVPlayerViewController to play them but I need to wait several minutes before they start playing as it downloads the whole video rather than streaming it.

I am caching it locally so this is only happening the first time but I would love to stream the video so the user doesn't have to wait for the entire video to download.

Some people are pointing out that I need Cloudfront to stream videos but in the documentation, I've read that this is only necessary when you have many people streaming the same file. I'm building a MVP so I only need a simple solution.

Is there any way to stream an MP4 video from an S3 bucket with AVPlayerViewController without it fully downloading the file before playing it to the user?