override the fullscreen tap or hide the fullscreen button -MPMoviePlayerController - ios

Question

When using the MPMoviePlayerController I want to override fullscreen button tap or to hide it so I can add a custom button.
The mission is to really change the MPMoviePlayerController frame and other subviews frame.
Any ideas? Or I must use different video player to accomplish that?

Answer 1

First of all remove gestures of your MPMoviePlayerController. Then add your custom gestures or Button or other control.
self.player.view.gestureRecognizers = nil;
//Add your custom gestures or Button or other control

Answer 2

I recently was solving similar issue. My client was insisting to disable Previous and Next buttons although I was strongly recommend to do that because it's quite tricky and not guaranteed to work in next iOS version. So here I publish my solution as an very unwanted option)
-(void) disableNextPrevButtons:(UIView *) view :(int) level {
Class cl = NSClassFromString(#"MPKnockoutButton");
for (UIView * v in view.subviews) {
NSLog(#"[%d] scanning view of class %# tag: %ld", level, NSStringFromClass(v.class), (long)v.tag);
if ([v isKindOfClass:cl]) {
for (UIView * v2 in v.subviews)
if ([v2 isKindOfClass:[UIImageView class]]) {
v.alpha = 0.0;
v.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
if (!buttonsDiscovered) {
buttonsDiscovered = YES;
UIButton * b = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, v.superview.frame.size.height, v.superview.frame.size.height)];
if (MLGSystemVersion() > 7.9)
b.alpha = 0.5;
b.autoresizingMask = (UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin |
UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin |
UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin |
UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleBottomMargin);
[b setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"btnMPPause.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[b setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"btnMPPlay.png"] forState:UIControlStateSelected];
b.selected = YES;
[b addTarget:self action:#selector(btnPlayPauseDidPress:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
b.center = CGPointMake(v.superview.frame.size.width / 2, v.center.y);
[v.superview addSubview:b];
self.btnPlayPause = b;
}
break;
}
} else
[self disableNextPrevButtons:v :level +1];
}
}
The method is recursevely scans and finds the desired controls and do some bad things to them