Set orientation of MPMoviePlayerController - ios

Question

My whole application is in portrait mode only and i am playing youtube video in my application. For you tube I am using UIWebview. When user click on play button in UIWebview it automatically launch the MPMoviePlayerController. So I did not declared any MPMoviePlayerController object. So I want MPMoviePlayerController support both portrait and landscape orientation. So please suggest.

Answer 1

If you use NavigationController, you could subclass it and do the following:
#import "MainNavigationController.h"
#import <MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.h>
#implementation MainNavigationController
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate
{
return YES;
}
-(NSUInteger)supportedInterfaceOrientations
{
if ([[[self.viewControllers lastObject] presentedViewController] isKindOfClass:[MPMoviePlayerViewController class]])
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
else
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
}
#end
Then you should set your app to support all orientations, and this code will allow orientation change only if it is playing your movie 'MPMoviePlayerController`.
When calling your movie you should send a notification, so if user closes it in any orientation other than portraitit switches back to portrait.
Something like this:
- (IBAction)playButton:(id)sender {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(moviePlaybackDidFinish)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:self.player.moviePlayer];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:videoUrl];
self.player = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
self.player.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:self.player];
}
-(void)moviePlaybackDidFinish
{
[[UIDevice currentDevice] setValue:
[NSNumber numberWithInteger: UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait]
forKey:#"orientation"];
}
This should do it for you, let me know how it goes.