From acb0f50d7b0512c97d3f0509c29c9c4c172428b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Igor Tironi <tironiigor@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:03:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Picked changes from PR #2848

---
 ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift b/ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift
index fb5270ab25..037396ecf3 100644
--- a/ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift
+++ b/ios/Video/RCTVideo.swift
@@ -264,7 +264,11 @@ class RCTVideo: UIView, RCTVideoPlayerViewControllerDelegate, RCTPlayerObserverH
                     self._playerItem?.preferredPeakBitRate = Double(maxBitRate)
                 }
                 
-                self._player = AVPlayer(playerItem: self._playerItem)
+                self._player = AVPlayer()
+                DispatchQueue.global(qos: .default).async {
+                    self._player?.replaceCurrentItem(with: playerItem)
+                }
+
                 self._playerObserver.player = self._player
                 self.applyModifiers()
                 self._player?.actionAtItemEnd = .none