Comments on: Play iPhone Movies in Portrait Mode with MPMoviePlayerController using Public API’s

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:59:21 +0000

You may have to make some code changes to support this – one option is that the UIViewController class has a method hidesBottomBarWhenPushed that you can set to returns YES if you want the tabbar hidden when the view controller is pushed onto a navigation controller.

By: luca

luca — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:50:01 +0000

Thanks for tutorial , how i can hide the bottom tab controller when video start ? i like to see fullscreen..

Regards

By: ingconti

ingconti — Wed, 26 May 2010 06:39:29 +0000

Nice piece. However, if you download Movies from web (or it takes a bit to load), you don’t have yet 2 Windows when you use

[windows objectAtIndex:1];

I recommend to start a timer, AND add overlay after a short amount of time.

By: NeedAppforThat

NeedAppforThat — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:58:36 +0000

agreed. thanks for the concern. i guess i’d like to see what can be done by using any kind of method. that’s why i like the writeup of this page but also want to see the private API methods. The reason for the latter is that it sometimes is possible to get big companies to push apple on some of these cool features and they just might open up.

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:49:04 +0000

I’ve read that the private method below will rotate the player:

[moviePlayer setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait animated:NO];

However, I recommend that you don’t use this or any private API as Apple can/will reject applications using undocumented calls. Also, even if the code works today, no guarantee it will in future releases.

By: NeedAppforThat

NeedAppforThat — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:04:04 +0000

Good work. This is almost what i need. So two additions would be 1) not to have to pre-rotate the video and 2) can we scale the video so that it’s any size? I think maybe using the approach you suggest that it’s not possible. However, you hint towards others using private API’s. Can you reference in the article a good site for people that are using private API’s? thanks!

By: JD@maniacdev

JD@maniacdev — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:18:12 +0000

Thanks for this John. I never really considered attempting doing this outside of a UIWebView.

This is really cool, and it will be nice to not have to play with HTML/CSS to get things looking right.

By: RoberRM

RoberRM — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:21:29 +0000

I was just struggling to find out how to do this two days ago. I decided then to use your approach (pre-rotating the source video), so I’ve read this too late for me. :D
Fortunately, I didn’t need to overlay anything either. Nevertheless, your post reassured me on my choice, so I wanted to thank you for sharing it with us. :D
Thank you very much! ;)