mpmovieplayercontroller issue - iphone

one small issue in my movieplayer..![movieplayer shows like this]
1: http://i.stack.imgur.com/WujxB.png but i want to show as below screenshot
mycode:
moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];
moviePlayerController.view.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,320,460);
moviePlayerController.fullscreen = YES;
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayerController.view];
[moviePlayerController play];

Those are the default controls for fullscreen playback, since you set moviePlayerController.fullscreen = YES.
The controls you want are for embedded playback, not fullscreen.
What you want is moviePlayerController.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded; but you can only use it if your movie is embbeded in one of your views. Then you would have the controls that you want, including a toggle between fullscreen and embedded.

You have to use MPMoviePlayerViewController instead of using MPMoviePlayerController.

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MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer= [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
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Any idea what I missed?
Thanks for reading! :)
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Heres what I have.
mp = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
[self.view addSubview:[mp view]];
mp.view.frame = mediaPlayerContainer.frame;
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My mediaPlayerContainer is just a dummy container so I can visually build a frame for my mp view.
The only other thing I can think of doing is using a "screenshot" of a player as a place holder. And removing it if the player is in "play" mode.
That seems janky though.
Thnks.
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