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I'm currently passing a stream url that doesn't work (or a random one). VLCKit would push the view and won't play anything (expected).

To handle that situation I'm implementing the following solution (which isn't beautiful but does the work for now)

mediaPlayer.media = VLCMedia(url: URL(string: mediaUrl)!)
        mediaPlayer.play()
        
        if (mediaPlayer.isPlaying == false) {
            DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 4.0) {
                if (self.mediaPlayer.isPlaying == false) {
                    // do something
                    self.mediaPlayer.stop()
                }
                else {
                    print("placeholder")
                }
            }
        }

The about snippet translates to: After calling the .play() function, to the .isPlaying method returns false after 10 seconds, then do something

However, I'm obviously not sure about this solution. Is there any way that I can get an "error" to play with if the connection with the url that is being passed doesn't work (either because the connection times out or the string url isn't valid)?