How to mute programmatically?

[MidnightCoder]

According to the documentation (http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/MobileVLCK ... TrackIndex), setting the "currentAudioTrackIndex" to -1 will effectively mute the player. However, on iOS, this property has type UInt (unsigned int). How do you assign a negative number to a UInt?

[ssbmaccom]

I would try to use media.currentAudioTrackIndex = (UInt)-1; which shall result in 0xFFFFFFFF and work.

[MidnightCoder]

I would try to use media.currentAudioTrackIndex = (UInt)-1; which shall result in 0xFFFFFFFF and work.

Thanks for taking the time to response to my question. I already tried that before posting the question but unfortunately, the compiler treats that as a syntax error:

Binary operator '-' cannot be applied to operands of type '(UInt).Type' (aka 'UInt.Type') and 'Int'

I found another way to mute but curious how to set -1 as the index as mentioned in the documentation.

[ssbmaccom]

You use clang in Xcode 8?
I just tried this in a brief sample and I do not even get a warning.

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int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) { @autoreleasepool { UInt x; x = (UInt)-1; NSLog( @"x is %uld = 0x%x", x, x ); } return 0; }

And console shows

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2016-10-06 16:22:48.412 UIntTest[70763:1076284] x is 4294967295ld = 0xffffffff Program ended with exit code: 0

[MidnightCoder]

I'm using Swift 3.0 w/ Xcode 8.

[ssbmaccom]

OK, one more reason I continue to use C and ObjectiveC