MPMoviePlayerController initialPlaybackTime property not working in iOS 8.4 - ios

Question

After setting initialPlaybackTime property, the video(HTTP streaming) still plays from the beginning.
The same code works well in iOS <= 8.3:
self.moviePlayer.initialPlaybackTime = self.lastPlaybackTime;
[self.moviePlayer play];

Answer 1

This works for me, basically you need to setCurrentPlaybackTime when the movie starts playing, But you also need a flag playbackDurationSet which is set to NO when you present movieplayer and it is set to YES when the movie is seeked to the playbackDuration for the first time.
NOTE: this flag is required because when you seek the movie from the seek scrubber the moviePlayerPlaybackStateChanged is fired with playbackState of
MPMoviePlaybackStatePlaying.
BOOL playbackDurationSet = NO;
- (void)moviePlayerPlaybackStateChanged:(NSNotification*)notification
{
MPMoviePlayerController* player = (MPMoviePlayerController*)notification.object;
switch ( player.playbackState ) {
case MPMoviePlaybackStatePlaying:
if(!playbackDurationSet){
[self.moviePlayer setCurrentPlaybackTime:yourStartTime];
playbackDurationSet = YES;
}
break;
}
}
- (void)moviePlayerPresented
{
playbackDurationSet = NO;
}

Answer 2

I've seen some of these issues as well. Since MPMoviePlayerController is deprecated in iOS 9, they're unlikely to be fixed.

Answer 3

hariszaman answer worked for me:
- (void)moviePlaybackStateChanged:(NSNotification*)notif
{
//...
if (self.videoPlayer.playbackState == MPMoviePlaybackStatePlaying) {
if (self.currentBookmark) {
if ([[PSDeviceInfo sharedInstance] is_iOSatLeast84]){
NSTimeInterval toTime = [self.currentBookmark.seconds doubleValue];
[self.videoPlayer setCurrentPlaybackTime:toTime];
self.currentBookmark = nil;
}
}
}
if (self.videoPlayer.playbackState == MPMoviePlaybackStatePaused) {
//...
}
if (self.videoPlayer.playbackState == MPMoviePlaybackStateStopped) {
//...
}
}
also:
- (void)configureMoviePlayer
{
if (self.currentBookmark) {
if ([[PSDeviceInfo sharedInstance] is_iOSatLeast84]){
// will set start after did start
}else {
NSTimeInterval toTime = [self.currentBookmark.seconds doubleValue];
self.videoPlayer.initialPlaybackTime = toTime;
self.currentBookmark = nil;
}
}
else {
self.videoPlayer.initialPlaybackTime = 0;
}
//...
}
the method is_iOSatLeast84:
- (BOOL)is_iOSatLeast84
{
// version 8.4
NSString *version = [[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion];
BOOL isAtLeast84 = [version floatValue] >= 8.35;
return isAtLeast84;
}
Although all of this is a workaround, it gets the job done.