IOS MPMoviePlayerViewController Loading endlessly

Question

I'm working on a IOS App (With Storyoard). I have a ViewController:

//movieViewController.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.h>

@interface movieViewController : UIViewController {

    MPMoviePlayerViewController *moviePlayer;

}

@property (strong, nonatomic) MPMoviePlayerViewController *moviePlayer;
-(void) playMovie;

@end


//movieViewController.m
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    [self playMovie];
}

-(void)playMovie
{
    NSString *videoPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"movie"
                                                      ofType:@"mov"];

    moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL
                                                     fileURLWithPath:videoPath]];
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:moviePlayer];
}

When I run I see my viewController with a "Loading..." that takes forever. enter image description here

Shouldn't you wait till viewDidAppear call before invoking [self playMovie]? — sixthcent, Apr 08 '13 at 21:44

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '13 at 21:13

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You should call -prepareToPlay and/or -play. Per MPMoviePlayerController's documentation:

Starting in iOS 5.0, in order to facilitate finer-grained playback control, a new movie player is not automatically prepared to play.

answered Apr 08 '13 at 21:13

zadr

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You are mixing up MPMoviePlayerController and MPMoviePlayerViewController. – Till Apr 09 '13 at 00:02
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MPMoviePlayerViewController has a `moviePlayer` property that is a MPMoviePlayerController object. – zadr Apr 09 '13 at 03:12
That is true indeed but there is no need to access that property for achieving what the OP asked for. MPMoviePlayerViewController does that out of the box. – Till Apr 09 '13 at 12:08
Where is that behavior documented? To the best of my knowledge, that is not the case. – zadr Apr 09 '13 at 19:07
Calling up both `prepareToPlay` and `play` did not work. Still it hits the infinite loop – sarat Jul 24 '13 at 02:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '15 at 07:11

-(IBAction)startVideo:(id)sender
{
    NSURL *video = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:@"http://www.w3schools.com/html/movie.mp4"];
    MPMoviePlayerViewController *controller = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc]initWithContentURL:video];
    controller.view.frame = CGRectMake(20, 50, 280, 180);

    controller.moviePlayer.view.center = self.view.center;
    [self.view addSubview:controller.view];

    [controller.moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
    [controller.moviePlayer play];
}

Can you add some text to explain your solution, please? – GHC Mar 05 '15 at 07:15 — GHC, Mar 05 '15 at 07:15

IOS MPMoviePlayerViewController Loading endlessly

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