I need to rotate my MPMoviePlayerController and am doing so as follows:
self.player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:selectedImageURL];
[self.player.view setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.height, self.view.frame.size.width)];
self.player.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded;
self.player.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI_2*3);
self.player.view.center = self.view.center;
[self.view addSubview:self.player.view];
[self.player play];
With the rotated video, though, I don't see the controls.
How do I ensure that the controls are in view?
Also, as a related question, is there a way to specify the placement of the controls? I'd like the controls to appear on the bottom of the screen for portrait videos and on the right of the screen for landscape videos.
Test Video
You can try out the code with this video: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1000620/lego_test.mp4
I think video playing and processing should be handled separately. In fact, I think MPMoviePlayerController is only capable of playing video. (Am I wrong?)
Video playing:
Customized control should includes some steps as follow:
1) set controlStyle=MPMovieControlStyleNone;
2) add a overlay view to containerView, place your controls on this view;
3) make MPMoviePlayerController handling controls events.
Example "MoviePlayer" shows how to add overlay view to MPMoviePlayerController.
if you just want to rotate video playing in fullscreen, the following link will be help
MPMoviePlayerController fullscreen in landscape mode in a portrait project
Video processing is another thing. Maybe you need reading Example "AVSimpleEditoriOS".
By using AVFoundation framework, you can reading frames from video, processing (rotate, zoom), writing to displaying buffer in real time.
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I'm finding it difficult to search for this, background video searches for iOS typically refer to multitasking and switching apps with video.
I want to know if it's possible to have a video playing full screen without movie player controls, while displaying another view on top of that with logo, buttons, text, etc...
So,
Background: 15 second video loop -
Foreground: login / signup buttons, logo, etc...
There are a number of options, but the simplest will be to use a MPMoviePlayerController, with its repeatMode property set to loop forever, and its controlStyle set to none. That will give you a view with a looped movie with no controls that you can use as a background by adding it to your view hierarchy.
OP here - I was able to display a video full screen using this code (in viewDidLoad):
(don't forget to substantiate player as a property with MPMoviePlayerController *player;)
player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"videoname" ofType:#"m4v"]]];
[player.view setFrame: self.view.bounds];
player.repeatMode = MPMovieRepeatModeOne;
player.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
[myView addSubview:player.view];
[player play];
And that worked fine - it displays a video fullscreen without video controls. What I had a problem with was displaying buttons and graphics above that. Even though my view hierarchy had the player.view seemingly behind my view with buttons, I couldn't get the buttons to appear.
I fixed that by adding in:
[player.view addSubview:overlayView];
Just set the layer you intend to display above the video to an IBOutlet and then use the video view to add that view (overlayView in this case) as a subview.
I actually prefer a way that is portrayed in this tutorial
basically the idea is to create a gif of your video, crop it to iPhone Screen size and load it into an un-interactive UIWebView. I believe this will get the job done if you don't need any audio, and it's basically done effortlessly.
I hope it helps you =)
I'm playing a YouTube video using a UIWebView, like so:
self.webView.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = NO;
self.webView.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = NO;
[self.webView loadHTMLString:videoEmbedCode baseURL:nil];
I want to force the video to play in full screen without the user tapping the button at the bottom right. This works fine on an iPhone (tap the player to play and it automatically enters full screen), but doesn't work on an iPad (the normal inline player is shown).
I assumed that setting allowsInlineMediaPlayback to NO would do the trick, but apparently not.
Is there a way to force HTML5 videos to play in full screen on an iPad?
If you are trying to play a youtube video in fullscreen directly, then Use a webview of size fullScreen and then handle its rotation accordingly and change the player size of Rotation too. If you need more help then i can help you with the code too for how to change the player size on rotation too.
I'm working on an iPad project where i have to play short video files one after another smoothly. For playing the videos i'm using MPMoviePlayerController. The problem i'm facing is that when i call
[self.moviePlayer setContentURL:videoURL]
it does start the next video, but there is ±1 sec delay of black screen before it starts to play the next video (the videos are read from the disk, not streamed). I need to avoid this black screen as well as the delay.
So maybe some of you also experienced this problem and have some solutions? Thanks.
Btw, for now, as to at least avoid the black screen, I capture the last frame of the ending video, show it in a UIImageView, and remove it after 1 sec delay. But i'm hoping to find a more elegant fix.
The effect you are talking about is actually a combination of two problems: a black blink when you change the video (which doesn't happen upon assigning the video for the first time) and the delay before the controller starts playing video.
I'm currently screwed with the second one and don't know how to solve yet. As for the first one, just try to use another instance of MPMoviePlayerController. I mean when a video finishes playing (you can subscribe to a corresponding notification) just remove the old player, create a new one and put video there. This way you will avoid blinking, but there will be a delay (not sure, because of loading the video or because of player creation) before the next video starts playing.
Hope this helps a bit.
Fond solution here
http://joris.kluivers.nl/blog/2010/01/04/mpmovieplayercontroller-handle-with-care/
you need to use [self.moviePlayer prepareToPlay]; and catch MPMoviePlayerReadyForDisplayDidChangeNotification to use [self.moviePlayer play];
Old post but Googlers will still come. :)
Creating a new MPMoviePlayerController then assigning it back to my previous player worked for me, no more black screen!
...
[self playVideoWithFilename:#"video1.mp4"];
}
- (void)playVideoWithFilename:(NSString *)fileName
{
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [MPMoviePlayerController new];
_myVidPlayer = player;
player = nil;
NSURL *vidPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:fileName withExtension:nil];
[_myVidPlayer.view setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[_myVidPlayer.view setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 64, 320, 320)];
[_myVidPlayer setContentURL:vidPath];
[_myVidPlayer setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleNone];
[_myVidPlayer setRepeatMode:MPMovieRepeatModeOne];
[_myVidPlayer prepareToPlay];
[self.view addSubview: _myVidPlayer.view];
[_myVidPlayer play];
}
Note:
Available in iOS 2.0 and later
Deprecated in iOS 9.0
"Use AVPlayerViewController in AVKit."
I think that the problem is that the controller will fade out and back in between the movies.
You can control the background view color and contents, but I'm not sure that you can eliminate the fade in/out.
I am playing mp4 files in iPad using MPMoviePlayerController. I have a view connected in IB to play the video files. The problem is that if one of the files is audio-only, it plays fine, but then videos that play after the audio file do not show the play/pause/seek controls.
I am doing this to initialize the view:
self.theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] init];
[self.viewForMovie addSubview:theMovie.view];
Has anyone seen this behavior or have an idea how I can get the video controls to reappear?
Thank you!
You can set the control type with
self.theMovie.controlStyle=MPMovieControlStyleDefault
These are the available options:
MPMovieControlStyleNone
MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded
MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen
MPMovieControlStyleDefault
Details here: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/mediaplayer/reference/MPMoviePlayerController_Class/Reference/Reference.html
I recorded a video with a bluescreen. We have the software to convert that video to a transparent background. What's the best way to play this video overlaid on a custom UIView? Anytime I've seen videos on the iPhone it always launches that player interface. Any way to avoid this?
Don't know if anyone is still interested in this besides me, but I'm using GPUImage and the Chromakey filter to achieve this^^ https://github.com/BradLarson/GPUImage
EDIT: example code of what I did (may be dated now):
-(void)AnimationGo:(GPUImageView*)view {
NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:#"test" withExtension:#"mov"];
movieFile = [[GPUImageMovie alloc] initWithURL:url];
filter = [[GPUImageChromaKeyBlendFilter alloc] init];
[movieFile addTarget:filter];
GPUImageView* imageView = (GPUImageView*)view;
[imageView setBackgroundColorRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.0];
imageView.layer.opaque = NO;
[filter addTarget:imageView];
[movieFile startProcessing];
//to loop
[imageView setCompletionBlock:^{
[movieFile removeAllTargets];
[self AnimationGo:view];
}];
}
I may have had to modify GPUImage a bit, and it may not work with the latest version of GPUImage but that's what we used
You'll need to build a custom player using AVFoundation.framework and then use a video with alpha channel. The AVFoundation framework allows much more robust handeling of video without many of the limitations of MPMedia framework. Building a custom player isn't as hard as people make it out to be. I've written a tutorial on it here:
http://www.sdkboy.com/?p=66
I'm assuming what you're trying to do is actually remove the blue screen in real-time from your video: you'll need to play the video through OpenGL, run pixel shaders on the frames and finally render everything using an OpenGL layer with a transparent background.
See the Capturing from the Camera using AV Foundation on iOS 5 session from WWDC 2011 which explains techniques to do exactly that (watch Chroma Key demo at 9:00). Presumably the source can be downloaded but I can't find the link right now.
The GPUImage would work, but it is not perfect because the iOS device is not the place to do your video processing. You should do all your on the desktop using a professional video tool that handles chromakey, then export a video with an alpha channel. Then import the video into your iOS application bundle as described at playing-movies-with-an-alpha-channel-on-the-ipad. There are a lot of quality and load time issues you can avoid by making sure your video is properly turned into an alpha channel video before it is loaded onto the iOS device.
Only way to avoid using the player interface is to roll your own video player, which is pretty difficult to do right. You can insert a custom overlay on top of the player interface to make it look like the user is still in your app, but you don't actually have control of the view. You might want to try playing your transparent video in the player interface and see if it shows up as transparent. See if there is a property for the background color in the player. You would want to set that to be transparent too.
--Mike
I'm not sure the iPhone APIs will let you have a movie view over the top of another view and still have transparency.
You can't avoid launching the player interface if you want to use the built-in player.
Here's what I would try:
get the new window that is created by MPMoviePlayerController (see here)
explore the view hierarchy in that window, using [window subviews] and [view subviews]
try to figure out which one of those views is the actual player view
try to insert a view BEHIND the player view (sendSubviewToBack)
find out if the player supports transparency or not.
I don't think you can do much better than this without writing your own player, and I have no idea if this method would work or not.
Depending on the size of your videos and what you're trying to do, you could also try messing around with animated GIFs.
if you could extract the frames from your video and save them as images then your video could be reproduced by changing the images. Here is an example of how you could reproduce your images so that it looks like a video:
in this image that I uploaded the names of the images have a different name but if you name your images as: frame1, fram2, fram3.... then you could place that inside a loop.
I have never tried it I just know it works for simple animations. Hope it works.