I need to rotate the video player on iPhone (or let it autorotate).
I know the webview solution, but here come the problem, I need to play several video (distant), and WebView can't provide me a stopSelector.
I know the fact that setOrientation is a private API.
Is there a solution ?
Try with this:
[moviePlayer setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight animated:NO];
As you surely know, this solution will be rejected by Apple, as setOrientation for movie player is undocumented and part of the Private API.
I believe there's none.
I know there's people that pre-rotated a movie in order to make it appear
as if it were in portrait mode, but it's a bit ugly.
update: it's supported on 3.2/4.0 using MPMoviePlayerController .
I'm answering my own question :
Since iOS 3.2 MPMoviePlayerViewController can just return YES to shouldAutorotate method.
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I am developing an app that plays internet radio. Owing to my lack of skill, i have only used the stock MPMoviePlayerController.
This is so far been able to play a few m3u streams (like the 'feeling floyd' station)
However, i was wondering if there was any way to have this MPMoviePlayerViewController to show me extra information.. like the song that is playing (which information i was able to extract form teh metadata.)
I can get this information all right, but how do i put it on the screen?
Can I make an overlay or something? (the centre of the MPMovieplayer is taken up by the quicktime background... it would be great if i could use an overlay on this space to show current music information or whatever.)
Is this overlay thing possible? if not, is there any other way?
Thank you very much!
V
If you want your own custom view over the player you can add it as a subview to the player's view as [player.view addSubview:yourView];
Get the moviePlayer property of MPMoviePlayerViewController. I think you should be able to to do this [moviePlayer.view addSubview:myView].
Is there any way to show subtitules on a movie loaded by MPMoviePlayerViewController by default?? The movie has subs embed in the video.
Thank you!
Unfortunately this feature is missing in the MPMoviePlayer playback classes. This is obviously rather annoying, and you should consider filing a feature request with Apple. You can use the AVPlayer class instead, which as a .closedCaptionDisplayEnabled property: the downside is it's somewhat more complicated to use and only available on iOS 4.0+.
I want to play videos. I am using MPMoviePlayer, but I don't want to use the controls provided by MPMoviePlayer. So I am trying to create my own custom controls. All the functionality like play, pause, fullscreen, forward, backward are done. The only problem is with the scrubber. I am having one UISlider but I don't know how exactly work with this. How to track the currently playing video time? How to play video from where I will slide the thumb of slider?
If anyone knows this kindly help me in this.
Thanks in advance.
I was having a similar problem. I figured out how to create custom movie controls and put it up on github. Let me know if that helps. Feel free to ask me any questions if you want details.
First, we should note that all of this is possible in iOS 3.2+, if you are OK not to support iOS 3.1.x.
In iOS 3.2+, MPMoviePlayerController implements the MPMediaPlayback protocol, meaning that it responds to play, stop, etc., all the controls you would expect -- sounds like you already have some of this working. Please see the reference for the MPMediaPlayback protocol.
To get the MPMoviePlayerController to stop showing its own controls, do this on initialization:
yourPlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
Finally, to get the scrubber to work, you need to set the UISlider valueChanged: callback to something, and update the value of currentPlaybackTime property. If you want to seek 10 seconds in:
yourPlayer.currentPlaybackTime = 10;
I'm having a few issues playing a video in MonoTouch. From what I can find there are two different approaches to take. Both result in the audio being played but no video. I'm betting I'm missing something simple so any help would be great.
Attempt one - taken from MT documentation
moviePlayer = new MPMoviePlayerController(new NSUrl("test.mp4"));
moviePlayer.Play();
Attempt two
moviePlayer = new MPMoviePlayerViewController(new NSUrl("test.mp4"));
this.PresentMoviePlayerViewController(moviePlayer);
Thanks
From looking at the documentation, you need to add the MPMoviePlayerController to a view, otherwise the video will no know where to play.
Your second attempt looks a little better, are you calling the play method on the moviePlayer (note this is a MPMoviePlayerViewController) MPMoviePlayerController (named MoviePlayer)?
For what it's worth, I can get;
moviePlayerController = new MPMoviePlayerViewController(new NSUrl("test.mp4"));
this.PresentMoviePlayerViewController(moviePlayerController);
working with no issues on a sample iPad app. Are you sure your test.mp4 is...
Encoded correctly
Included in the project
Video's build action is set to content
Documentation for MPMoviePlayerController: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPMoviePlayerController_Class/MPMoviePlayerController/MPMoviePlayerController.html
Documentation for MPMoviewPlayerViewController:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPMoviePlayerViewController_class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/cl/MPMoviePlayerViewController
Is it possible to load a short video file and - once loaded - select a specific frame and display that frame in a view? If there is no native support for this, how about an open source alternative?
Thanks in advance.
-Doug
I think that in iphone programming you're stuck with the fullscreen video solution proposed by apple. You could write your own controller to do it differently, but i think it could be difficult to achieve good performances and you're cut out of the app-store for sure.
edit:
looks like in iphone sdk 3.2 apple added something for you:
The MPMoviePlayerController class
defines an interface for managing the
playback of a movie. Playback occurs
either in full-screen mode or in a
custom view that is vended by the
movie player controller. You can
incorporate the view into your own
view hierarchies or use a
MPMoviePlayerViewController object to
manage the presentation for you.
and again
Behavior in iPhone OS 3.1 and Earlier
In iPhone OS 3.1 and earlier, this
class implemented a full-screen movie
player only. After creating the movie
player and initializing it with a
single movie file, you called the play
method to present the movie. (The
definition of the play method has
since moved out of this class and into
the MPMediaPlayback protocol.) The
movie player object itself handled the
actual presentation of the movie
content.
i haven't tested it yet but have a look at the official documentation under MPMoviePlayerController Class Reference, it may help.