Playing video from temp url iOS - ios

Question

I want to play a video in seprate view controller, where I can Play/Pause or dismiss that view controller. In my case, I recorded the video in my app and calling this delegate method in order to save this video in assets, but I want to play it first before using the ALAssetsLibrary.
- (void)captureOutput:(AVCaptureFileOutput *)captureOutput
didFinishRecordingToOutputFileAtURL:(NSURL *)outputFileURL
fromConnections:(NSArray *)connections
error:(NSError *)error
And the TEMO URL im getting is :
file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/EA6D31AC-6CC3-4BDF-B874-BC6F30BA5677/tmp/output.mov
How can I play this video in next view controller or in same view controller??
My try:
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:outputFileURL];
player.view.frame = CGRectMake(184, 200, 400, 300);
[self.view addSubview:player.view];
[player play];
PS: This is showing a black screen area but not actually playing this video.

Answer 1

I had the same problem a few days ago. It ends up that I was calling play method to soon, before the video become ready to play. So, add this before call [player play]. This will notify whenever your video become read to play in MPMoviePlayerController.
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(videoPlayBackDidFinish:) name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:player];
Then setup the observer:
- (void)videoPlayBackDidFinish:(NSNotification *)notification {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]removeObserver:self name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:nil];
}
This worked for me.
Hope it helps.