iOS: How to save a video in your directory and play it afterwards?

Question

I am working in an iOS project. I want may application to download a video from the internet programmatically. Then I want to play it. I know how can I play a local video from the Resources, but my question is how could I download it , and the find it to be played. I am using MPMoviePlayerController to run the video.

Thanking in advance

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 03 '15 at 08:30

I found the answer

here I saved the video

    NSString *stringURL = @"http://videoURL";
NSURL  *url = [NSURL URLWithString:stringURL];
NSData *urlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
NSString  *documentsDirectory ;
if ( urlData )
{
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
   documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];

    NSString  *filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@", documentsDirectory,@"videoName.mp4"];
    [urlData writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];

}

and this code is for playing the video form its directory

    NSString  *filepath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@", documentsDirectory,@"videoName.mp4"];

//video URL
NSURL    *fileURL    =   [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filepath];
moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[moviePlayerController play];

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 08 '15 at 12:55

4

If you have a valid url of the video, Apple provides an API to directly buffer videos with NSURL.

You should hold a reference to the MPMoviePlayerController object from the controller so that ARC doesn't release the object.
```
@property (nonatomic,strong) MPMoviePlayerController* mc; 
```

Make the URL

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com/video.mp4"];

Init MPMoviePlayerController with that URL

MPMoviePlayerController *controller = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];

Resize the controller, add it to your view, play it and enjoy the video.

self.mc = controller; // so that ARC doesn't release the controller
controller.view.frame = self.view.bounds;
[self.view addSubview:controller.view];
[controller play]; //Start playing

For more detail you can visit this playing video from a url in ios7

edited Jun 08 '15 at 12:55

Warif Akhand Rishi

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answered May 03 '15 at 07:08

Abubakr Dar

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Thanks @Abubakr for your answer , but this is not what I looking for I don't want to play it from its URL . – Ahd Radwan May 03 '15 at 08:32
Can you tell me where you want to play it from? – Abubakr Dar May 03 '15 at 08:46
I want to run it later with offline mode. Thanks a lot a found the answer and I have wrote it below. – Ahd Radwan May 03 '15 at 09:29
ok ok, so you wanted to save the video and then play it from there. got it. – Abubakr Dar May 03 '15 at 13:00

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