Comments on: How to Play Movies from the Application Bundle or from a Remote Server (URL)

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:21:49 +0000

Thanks dude! Your docs are better than Apple’s!!! :)

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:11:03 +0000

Thanks so much for the immediate reply, John. Your technique worked great. Looks like I got it down to a very small delay as well…

- (void) viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
[self performSelector:@selector(loadMoviePlayer) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.01];
}

seems to work fine.

Thanks again,

Bill

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:31:09 +0000

It may be a timing issue with the views. In place of [self loadMoviePlayer] you could try tinkering with something like this:

[self performSelector:@selector(loadMoviePlayer) withObject:nil afterDelay:1];

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 12 May 2011 18:24:26 +0000

Thanks very much for posting this. I would like to make the video start as soon as the app launches but I have been unsuccessful so far.

I tried calling [self loadMoviePlayer]; from within the TestViewController’s viewDidLoad() but nothing happens. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Bill

By: Philip Borges

Philip Borges — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 09:58:30 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for posting this. The sample code on playing movies from Apple’s iOS Reference Library doesn’t work so I was glad that I found your site. I have a question though:

I’ve built an RSS reader that plays video podcasts. It works fine when connected to WIFI network but stalls every 7 seconds to load when on 3G network. Therefore Apple rejected the app because it didn’t comply with HTTP live streaming protocol. Now I’ve added the MediaPlayer framework and your code but I’m having troubles loading the vidoes.

Any ideas?

My Code:
// Play movie from URL
NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[item objectForKey:@"podcastLink"]];

mp = [[[MoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithURL:movieURL] autorelease];

// Show the movie player as modal
[self presentModalViewController:mp animated:YES];

// Prep and play the movie
[mp readyPlayer];

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:15:10 +0000

All the details are managed by the OS. All you need to provide is a URL to a movie in a format supported by the player. Common formats are .mov, .mp4, .mpv, and .3gp

By: Forrest

Forrest — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:59:21 +0000

This can play online remote video ? Just several questions:
1. What is the protocol ?
2. Who manages downloading ?
3. What are supported video formats ?

By: Wasif Malik

Wasif Malik — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:17:12 +0000

Hi, thank you very much for sharing the source code.

I will definitely try this out tonight.