Playing video in UITableViewCell iOS

Question

I want to display and play video in a table view cell. my code for that is: In cellForRowAtIndexPath:

 NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",path,[[arrAboutUs objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] valueForKey:@"content"]]];
   MPMoviePlayerController* moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];
    [moviePlayer setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleNone];
    moviePlayer.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFit;
    [moviePlayer.view setFrame:cell.frame];
    [cell.contentView addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
    moviePlayer.view.hidden = NO;
    [moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
    [moviePlayer play];

But it is showing blank. and my video is in MP4 formate.

Look at this example https://github.com/Gagan5278/TableCellStreaming it is old but should work with you. — Gagan_iOS, Sep 15 '17 at 10:16
any reason why you are not using `AVPlayerViewController` instead of deprecated `MPMoviePlayerController`? — Milan Nosáľ, Sep 15 '17 at 10:27
@milan Because I am new for it I just searched for it and i found number of examples with MPMoviePlayer. if you have any link or idea for AVPlayerViewController pls let me know. — V-Dev, Sep 15 '17 at 10:30
No..code is perfect. Just try it. Video files are loading from the server. You can add your local files. — Gagan_iOS, Sep 15 '17 at 10:30

V-Dev · Answer 1 · 2017-09-15T10:45:23.767

Thank you @milan for your valuable suggestion. I use AVPlayerViewController and it working fine. code for that:

    AVPlayer*player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithURL:videoURL];

        AVPlayerViewController* playerController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];


        playerController.player = player;
       [self addChildViewController:playerController];

        [cell.contentView addSubview: playerController.view];
        playerController.view.frame = cell.frame;

        [player play];

Playing video in UITableViewCell iOS

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