How to disconnect AVPlayer from AVPlayerItem?

Question

I want to reuse AVPlayerItem, but keep getting this error:

An AVPlayerItem cannot be associated with more than one instance of AVPlayer

Before trying to reuse it, I destroy the previous AVPlayer as follows:

[self.player pause];
[self.player replaceCurrentItemWithPlayerItem:nil];
self.player = nil;

why is AVPlayerItem still connected and how to disable it?

Here is a Gist with full reproduction of the problem (only 50 lines by the way): https://gist.github.com/sbiermanlytle/14a6faab515f7691b810789086ae9e50

You can run it by creating a new Single View application and displacing the ViewController implementation with this code.

Answer 1

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