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How to Play Movies from the Application Bundle or from a Remote Server (URL)
In the previous two posts I wrote about how to create a movie player that would work across OS versions, as well as how to play a movie in portrait mode (on 3.2 and above) : Display iPhone Movies in Portrait Mode and Getting MPMoviePlayerController to Cooperate with iOS4, 3.2 (iPad) and Earlier Versions of [...]
Display iPhone Movies in Portrait Mode (Updated)
In the previous post, Getting MPMoviePlayerController to Cooperate with iOS4 and Earlier Versions of iPhone SDK, I demonstrated how to work with the most recent changes in iPhone OS 3.2 and 4.0 MPMoviePlayerController to enable one application to play movies regardless of the OS version on the device. In this post I want to show [...]
Getting MPMoviePlayerController to Work with iOS4, 3.2 (iPad) and Earlier Versions of iPhone SDK
The API and overall approach for working with MPMoviePlayerController has changed just enough in the 3.2 SDK (iPad) and iOS4 SDK to cause working applications in earlier releases to be problematic when running on later SDKs. In this post I’ll walk through a short example of a movie player application that will work with 3.x, [...]
Display YouTube Videos Without Exiting Your Application
If you’d like to play a YouTube video inside your application there are two common ways to do this, by launching the YouTube player and by using a UIWebview. Launch Native YouTube Application This approach will exit your application and begin the YouTube player on the iPhone: [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gczw0WRmHQU"]];
Play iPhone Movies in Portrait Mode with MPMoviePlayerController using Public API’s
Editor’s Note: With the release of SDK’s supporting 3.2 and 4.x, this approach is no longer necessary. The new movie player can now be displayed in either direction, landscape or portrait. Read this post for a more information: Display iPhone Movies in Portrait Mode (Updated) It’s been covered by a number of websites and blogs [...]
