MPMoviePlayer sample doesn't work

Question

I wish I could have found this solution when I googled every possible combination of these words.

Did you, like me, think you could download Apple's Movieplayer sample, click Build and Run and see a movie of an airplane? And nothing happens, right?

Here is the solution: Using MPMoviePlayerViewController in SDK 3.2 for iPad

Answer 1

Because the MoviePlayer demo is very old (2009-05-03) and because Apple is too lazy to update their code to support new approach on iOS 3.2/4.0.

Answer 2

Refer to this http://iosdevelopertips.com/video/getting-mpmovieplayercontroller-to-cooperate-with-ios4-3-2-ipad-and-earlier-versions-of-iphone-sdk.html

It works both for new and old devices.