When i'm trying to play a movie on my iPhone, it isn't work. I dont know why.. searched here and all over the internet, try 5 different codes, but still can't get it to work. I'm new to Obj-C, so please be patient.
I just want the movie to play and when the movie is done, to exit the player. also, at the beginning I dont want it to show a black screen, I want to see the first frame of the video instead. is it possible?
-(void)playTheMovie
{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"C061381" ofType:#"mp4" inDirectory:#""]];
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
[[player view] setFrame:[self.view bounds]]; // Frame must match parent view
[self.view addSubview:[player view]];
[player play];
}
Thanks!
Most probably you are messing up with the URL.
Check out Movie player sample project from apple
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/MoviePlayer_iPhone/Introduction/Intro.html
Run it first to confirm its functionality and then
Replace its movie with yours and change the extension and path name in the code
if it works copy the code to your project..
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I want to store large number of videos in my application's directory. Will it make my application slow? Or will it take time to launch the application. I am loading videos only when necessary.
It will make large size of your application which is not good...& it will also take time to launch in place of save all ur video u can make user to download that video from server and after that it will be saved in ur doc directory so ur app will be not of large size.............
Where is it located locally
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"videoname" ofType:#"mov" inDirectory:#""]];
and play with that
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];
[[player view] setFrame:[self.view bounds]]; // Frame must match parent view
[self.view addSubview:[player view]];
[player play];
[player release];
EDIT:-
The exact answer to this question is NO, it will not make your App Slow,But yeah it ill take some time to load the videos in your App,Time will depend upon number of videos you are loading in your APP. The solution to this is you have to use blocks for ALAssetLibaries.
Have a look on this ALAssetLibary Apple's class reference.
It may help you if not do contact me. Thanks :)
Ive got this code from an ebook tutorial on embedding MPMoviePlayerController from a VIEW object but it just dont work at all on iOS 4.3, it just gives me a black screen. I've tried looking at other sources and they have the same source code. Can anyone help me on finding what is the problem in this code.
Thanks
- (IBAction)playMovie:(id)sender {
NSString *filepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"shawarma" ofType:#"mp4"];
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filepath];
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[player.view setFrame: movieHolder.bounds];
[movieHolder addSubview: player.view];
[player play];
}
My VIEW object has a dimension of 400 x 300.
From the MPMoviePlayerController class reference guidelines Consider
a movie player view to be an opaque structure.
You can add your own custom subviews to layer content on top of the
movie but you must never modify any of its existing subviews.
In addition to layering content on top of a movie, you can provide
custom background content by adding
subviews to the view in the backgroundView
MPMoviePlayerController it self has a property view to present the video
Hope this LINK might help you
There is no issue with MPMoviePlayer and ios 4.3 i am working on an application that plays movie from a server and this is working fine for me. I request you to check
Path of you resource try some hardcode path.
Frame of the MoviePlayer.
Thanks
I have in my app a tab view with many tabs, and in one of them I have a button that when is clicked, I want to show a movie stream in a view. I have this code:
NSString *moviePath = #"http://10.0.0.4/prog_index.m3u8";
theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:moviePath]];
[theMovie.view setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, (self.view.frame.size.width), (self.view.frame.size.height))];
theMovie.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor grayColor];
theMovie.view.tag = 9999;
[self.view addSubview:[theMovie view]];
[theMovie play];
The view appears, but the video doesn't start. What is wrong?
You're passing to the MPMoviePlayerController an URL pointing to a m3u8 file. That is a playlist. To play media with MPMoviePlayerController, you have to set it an actual video file. You should parse the playlist to get the link to the real video and then init your MPMoviePlayerController with the real link.
Check M3U - Wikipedia and MPMoviePlayerController reference
Also check this related question
EDIT: Thanks to Hugo Silva, I realized that MPMoviePlayerController is able to play live streams in m3u8 format, since I've not seen anything wrong in your code, I suggest you to check if it's a problem of your stream. Try using one of the samples provided by Apple. Also make sure that your stream meets Apple's requirements for HTTP Streaming
I am trying to play an mp4 after detecting a signal in the audio jack.
The video is playing once, after a delay of 1 sec which i dont want, and then application is freezing and i get this warning on the debugger: (only on the iphone, its working on simulation)
(8F190)/Symbols/System/Library/VideoDecoders/H264H4.videodecoder (file not found).
(8F190)/Symbols/System/Library/VideoDecoders/MP4VH4.videodecoder (file not found).
my code for the video is this :
//play video1
url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"sample1" ofType:#"mp4"]];
moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
moviePlayer.useApplicationAudioSession=NO;
[moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleDefault;
[moviePlayer setMovieControlMode:MPMovieControlModeHidden];
moviePlayer.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
[moviePlayer play];
I couldnt find anything on this warning on the net.
I have tried any kind of video encoding,according to the Apple docs.
We just cant play movies, does anyone have any idea how to fix it?
thanks .
If you run that code twice, the video won't play the second time, because you are creating a second MPMoviePlayerController and a second view, and only one MPMoviePlayerController view in your app can play video. So it works the first time but not the second time. You should be retaining your MPMovieVideoController in a property so that you can remove its view and release the MPMovieVideoController before trying to make a new one.
I have any number of thumbnail images that, when tapped, will play a different video (fullscreen). I have never been clear on whether I should keep one MPMoviePlayerController object in my view controller and have it play whichever url according to the thumbnail that was tapped, or create a new MPMoviePlayerController each time. What is the best practice?
I am also having problems where tapping on different thumbs crashes the app, I believe because the MPMoviePlayerController tries to stream a video while it is already trying to stream. There seems to be no way to cancel a MPMoviePlayerController and clear out what it was doing, then start loading a new video.
Here's how I create it:
MPMoviePlayerController* moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] init];
self.player = moviePlayer;
[moviePlayer release];
Then to play a video I do this:
//would like to do something like this first - [self.player clear];
self.player.contentURL = someURL;
[self.view addSubview:player.view];
[self.player prepareToPlay];
[self.player play];
Any advice is welcome... thanks.
When you are changing the video in an MPMovieplayerController,then you can remove the mpmoviecontrollerplayer view from super view using removeFromSuperView and again add it's subview to the super view initializing it with new URL.
No need to create new object every time.