---
title: playbackStalledNotification
framework: avfoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: avfoundation/avplayeritem/playbackstallednotification
---

# playbackStalledNotification

A notification the system posts when a player item media doesn’t arrive in time to continue playback.

## Declaration

```swift
class let playbackStalledNotification: NSNotification.Name
```

## Discussion

Discussion The notification’s object is the player item whose playback is unable to continue due to network delays. Streaming-media playback continues after the player item retrieves a sufficient amount of data. File-based playback doesn’t continue. important: The system may post this notification on a thread other than the one you use to register the observer.

## See Also

### Observing notifications

- [didPlayToEndTimeNotification](avfoundation/avplayeritem/didplaytoendtimenotification.md)
- [failedToPlayToEndTimeNotification](avfoundation/avplayeritem/failedtoplaytoendtimenotification.md)
- [timeJumpedNotification](avfoundation/avplayeritem/timejumpednotification.md)
- [mediaSelectionDidChangeNotification](avfoundation/avplayeritem/mediaselectiondidchangenotification.md)
- [recommendedTimeOffsetFromLiveDidChangeNotification](avfoundation/avplayeritem/recommendedtimeoffsetfromlivedidchangenotification.md)
- [newAccessLogEntryNotification](avfoundation/avplayeritem/newaccesslogentrynotification.md)
- [newErrorLogEntryNotification](avfoundation/avplayeritem/newerrorlogentrynotification.md)