I have made one sample demo
Play video on my simulator using AVPlayer.
But my problem is video is not showing where audio of that video is working.
Code is:
#property (nonatomic,strong)AVPlayerViewController *videoPlayer;
-(IBAction)playVideo:(id)sender {
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:#"video" ofType:#"mp4"]];
AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:url];
self.videoPlayer = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
[self presentViewController:self.videoPlayer animated:YES completion:nil];
self.videoPlayer.player = player;
self.videoPlayer.showsPlaybackControls=YES;
self.videoPlayer.view.frame = self.view.frame;
[self.view addSubview:self.videoPlayer.view];
[player play];
}
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I guess that the problem is in your video file. Try to download another video mp4 video sample. Add it to your project and try.
You don't need this code:
self.videoPlayer.view.frame = self.view.frame;
[self.view addSubview:self.videoPlayer.view];
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I am currently trying to retrieve an .mp4 from a URL.
The video is accessible from a web-browser but the play button is crossed out. Any ideas on what could be going wrong?
Code in question
NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL URLWithString:self.videoURL];
// create an AVPlayer
AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:movieURL];
// create a player view controller
AVPlayerViewController *controller = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
controller.player = player;
[player play];
// show the view controller
[self addChildViewController:controller];
[self.view addSubview:controller.view];
controller.view.frame = self.view.frame;
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I think there is no way apart from UIWebView to play youtube video inside iOS application. Also you can redirect to youtube application by passing your video url.So youtube application will handle rest of the things
You can read the guidelines of YouTube section 2 point 10 here
You can use youtube player here
#import <AVKit/AVKit.h>
#import <AVFoundation/AVFoundation.h>
NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"IMG_0597" ofType:#"mov"]];
AVURLAsset *asset = [AVURLAsset assetWithURL:movieURL];
AVPlayerItem *item = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset: asset];
AVPlayerViewController *playerViewController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];
AVPlayer *player = [[AVPlayer alloc] initWithPlayerItem: item];
playerViewController.player = player;
[playerViewController.view setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, self.view.bounds.size.width)];
playerViewController.delegate=self;
playerViewController.showsPlaybackControls = YES;
[self.view addSubview:playerViewController.view];
[player play];
The reason why my videos did not play was because in the xml, where I was retrieving the url for the videos, I did not start the url with http://.
The code for this player works as it should.
I am very new to IOS app development , I am trying to play a video from gallery through MPMoviePlayer. I have list of all the video's urls in an array, but when trying to play the video MPMoviePlayer launches but does not play any video. Here is the code that I am using:
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[urlArr objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];
playMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[self.view addSubview:playMovie.view];
playMovie.fullscreen = YES;
[playMovie play];
Below is the code from apple documentation, I think you are not using [player prepareToPlay], which Prepares the player for playback by preloading its buffers. rest all looks fine.
MPMoviePlayerController *player =
[[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL: myURL];
[player prepareToPlay];
[player.view setFrame: myView.bounds]; // player's frame must match parent's
[myView addSubview: player.view];
// ...
[player play]
Looking to add a video to my apps intro screen like the Uber app. I am sure there are others.
I found this which uses a gif and UIWebView, but not sure if this is the best solution. I definitely don't want to use images and stitch them together (would rather not have video if that is the preferred method).
https://medium.com/swift-programming/ios-make-an-awesome-video-background-view-objective-c-swift-318e1d71d0a2
This is what I use in my app Letsplay, The answer from Aslam will work but uses MPmoviePlayerController which is depreciated as of IOS 9.0.
Also I set the video gravity so that your video will fill the entire frame which means no black borders.
NSString *videoPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"icebergs" ofType:#"mp4"];
NSURL *videoURL = [[NSURL alloc] initFileURLWithPath: videoPath];
AVPlayerItem *playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:[AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:videoURL options:nil]];
AVPlayer* videoPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem];
AVPlayerLayer* videoPlayerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:videoPlayer];
[videoPlayerLayer setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height)];
[self.view.layer addSublayer:videoPlayerLayer];
[videoPlayerLayer setVideoGravity:AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill];
[videoPlayer play];
If you don't want sound then remember to mute the player
[videoPlayer setMuted:YES];
I haven't tried the code, but I it should work. It generally takes the path of the video file and adds it to the view controller. You may have to set the coordinates and size. Though I have used here video, GIF is more preferred.
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[self loadVideoInBackgroundOfView];
}
-(void)loadVideoInBackgroundOfView{
MPMoviePlayerController* videoPlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[self getTheVideoPath]];
[videoPlayer.view setFrame:self.view.bounds];
[self.view insertSubview:moviePlayer.view atIndex:0];
[videoPlayer prepareToPlay];
[videoPlayer play];
}
-(NSURL*)getTheVideoPath{
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"VideoFileName" ofType:#"mp4"];
NSURL *URL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
return URL;
}
I'm have some video files ready for streaming on my server. Here's the code I'm trying to use to play them in an iOS app:
Video *vid = [videos objectAtIndex:index];
NSURL *vidUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:vid.videoUrl];
NSLog(#"%#",vid.videoUrl);
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:vidUrl];
player.controlStyle=MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded;
[player.view setFrame:self.view.bounds];
[self.view addSubview:player.view];
[player play];
If I copy and paste the URL the NSLog spits out into Safari, the video plays fine. So I know the URL is good. But in my app, I just get a black screen. What's wrong with my code?
MPMoviePlayerController needs to be a strong property declared as so #property (strong, nonatomic) MPMoviePlayerController *mvpc;
Then whenever you want to play a movie you would write:
self.mvpc = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"movieURL"]];
self.mvpc.shouldAutoplay = YES; //Optional
self.mvpc.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded;
[self.mvpc prepareToPlay];
[self.mvpc.view setFrame:self.view.bounds];
[self.view addSubview:self.mvpc.view];
[self.mvpc play];
I've been struggling with this for some hours...
I'm trying to play a video I download and save using AVPlayer but nothing shows up.
What surprised me the most is that if I use Apple's sample url for testing http live streaming
that video does play. (http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8)
However, when I change the url to the local file path the video doesn't play. I recorded the video with the iPhone and verified that the format (.mov) is playable. Here is the code block:
AVPlayer *mPlayer = [[AVPlayer alloc] init];
//mPlayer = [mPlayer initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8"]];
mPlayer = [mPlayer initWithURL:filePath];
playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:mPlayer];
[[[self view] layer] insertSublayer:playerLayer atIndex:3];
[playerLayer setFrame:self.view.bounds];
[mPlayer play];
NSLog(#"Playing video at: %#", filePath);
Sample output:
Playing video at: /var/mobile/Applications/B298EE7D-D95D-4CCC-8466-2C0270E2071E/Documents/394665262.174180.mov
EDIT:
Solved by using [NSURL fileURLWithPath:local_url_string]
Just small piece of code:
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"splash" ofType:#"mp4"];
NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
AVPlayer* player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURL];