Play Video from url

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I have used this coding in viewDidLoad Method:-

NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4-YdC5N6Lo"];
moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[moviePlayerController.view setFrame:CGRectMake(10, 100, self.view.frame.size.width-20, 260)];
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayerController.view];
moviePlayerController.fullscreen = YES;
[moviePlayerController play];

When I run the app, then a black screen show but not play video. I want to play video from url. Can anybody help me.

You cannot play *Youtube* video directly using `MPMoviePlayerController` You can test [this sample MP4 URL](http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4) — Praveenkumar, Nov 16 '16 at 05:01

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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MPMoviePlayerController not playing youtube video directly, it play only video file path Url in ios, so try HCYoutubeParser.

for additional information see the Stackoverflow answer

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Nov 16 '16 at 04:56

Anbu.Karthik

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 16 '16 at 07:03

MPMoviePlayerController is deprecated in iOS10 you can now use AVKit

NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4"];
AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURL];
playerViewController = [AVPlayerViewController new];
playerViewController.player = player;
[self.view addSubview:playerViewController.view];
[self presentViewController:playerViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

Play Video from url

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