MPMoviePlayerViewController quits while playing the video - iphone

Question

I am recording the video in my application. I am saving that video inside Documents directory. After taking the video if I try to play the video using the following code. The player opens and quits in one seconds. However if I Quit and then open my app fresh the video I took earlier is playing.
+ (void) playMovieAtURL: (NSURL*) theURL :(id)sender{
NSLog(#"playMovieAtURL");
//senderID = (id *)sender;
if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] doubleValue] >= 3.2) {
NSLog(#"> 3.2");
MPMoviePlayerViewController *mp = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:theURL];
if (mp)
{
// save the movie player object
//self.moviePlayerViewController = mp;
//[mp release];
[sender presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:mp];
//mp.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;
mp.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeStreaming;
[mp.moviePlayer play];
}
[mp release];
}
else if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] doubleValue] < 3.2) {
NSLog(#"< 3.2");
MPMoviePlayerController* theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL: theURL];
theMovie.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
// Register for the playback finished notification
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
addObserver: self
selector: #selector(myMovieFinishedCallback:)
name: MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object: theMovie];
// Movie playback is asynchronous, so this method returns immediately.
[theMovie play];
[theMovie release];
}
}
- (void) moviePlayBackDidFinish:(NSNotification*)notification {
MPMoviePlayerController *aMoviePlayer = [notification object];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:aMoviePlayer];
// If the moviePlayer.view was added to the view, it needs to be removed
if ([aMoviePlayer respondsToSelector:#selector(setFullscreen:animated:)]) {
[aMoviePlayer.view removeFromSuperview];
}
}
This is the code I use for storing the video inside documents.
NSURL *videoURL = [imageInfo objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL];
NSData *webData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:videoURL];
self.itsVideoName = fileName;
[webData writeToFile:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#/%#",dataPath,fileName] atomically:TRUE];

Answer 1

I finally figured out the answer after few hours of searching. This is the code I am using now..
-(IBAction)playMovie:(NSString *) theURL
{
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:theURL];
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(moviePlaybackComplete:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:moviePlayerController];
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayerController.view];
//After putting the following line the problem solved.
moviePlayerController.useApplicationAudioSession = NO;
moviePlayerController.fullscreen = YES;
[moviePlayerController play];
}
- (void)moviePlaybackComplete:(NSNotification *)notification
{
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayerController = [notification object];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:moviePlayerController];
[moviePlayerController.view removeFromSuperview];
[moviePlayerController release];
}
the code moviePlayerController.useApplicationAudioSession = NO; is used to solve this problem. I am not sure how this problem solved I guess I am using session for audio I guess that was causing problem to this.
Also the code which I originally posted was taking lots of memory like if I opened 2 video it cost 104 mb allocation for me. This new code was perfect and it is taking only less memory. Hope this will help for some one..

Answer 2

*NSURL fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:theURL];
should use NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL URLWithString:theURL];