I am using the MPMoviePlayerController to play some streaming videos of type .m3u from a url. They video player launches perfectly and the video starts playing perfectly as well, but as soon as I press the Seek Forward or Next or beginSeekingForward button the video complete stops/freezes. After that I can click Done to dismiss the player or scrub the progress bar and it will come back to play to video. But the I can't click on the play/pause or at least seems not to do anything.
I have spent quite sometime looking around online for answer or at least a hint so I can tackle this issue in the right direction but not luck. So, I really hope someone could help with this. Btw, this only happens on iOS 8+, currently I am testing it in iOS 8.1.
This is how I create the player and load the video to it.
NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:self.video.flvurl];
self.moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL: videoURL];
self.moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen;
self.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeStreaming;
self.moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = NO;
self.moviePlayer.fullscreen = YES;
self.moviePlayer.repeatMode = YES;
self.moviePlayer.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.moviePlayer.view.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
self.moviePlayer.view.frame = self.containerView.frame;
[self.view addSubview:self.moviePlayer.view];
[self.moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
[self.moviePlayer play];
I have tried using multiple different notifications to see if I can catch this within one of them, but not luck at all. I have tested all of these notifications so far.. I have added this to the self.moviePlayer and also the self.moviePlayer.view not luck in either of them.
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(willResignActive:)
name:UIApplicationWillResignActiveNotification
object:self.moviePlayer.view];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(videoPlaybackDidFinish:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:self.moviePlayer.view];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(videoStartedPlaying:)
name:MPMoviePlayerNowPlayingMovieDidChangeNotification
object:self.moviePlayer.view];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(videoLoadState:)
name:MPMoviePlayerLoadStateDidChangeNotification
object:self.moviePlayer.view];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(videoPlaybackState:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification
object:self.moviePlayer.view];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(videoPlaybackUserInfoKey:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishReasonUserInfoKey
object:self.moviePlayer.view];
Well, if you need more relevant code please let me know. I really need some help with this.. Thanks in advance.
This code worked for me, but just to get rid of freezing. Sign up for the MPMoviePlayerLoadStateDidChangeNotification, like you did above. In the callback method, I simply set the movie players contentURL to the original URL I had initialized it with at the start, and set the movie player to play again.
The functionality of this is when you tap the NEXT or BACK buttons in fullscreen, the video simply starts playing again from the start. That may not be ideal since the user might not expect this, but at least it will stop it from freezing. I'm currently trying to find a better workaround.
- (void) videoLoadState:(NSNotification *)notification
{
MPMovieLoadState loadState = moviePlayer.loadState;
if(loadState == MPMovieLoadStateUnknown)
{
NSLog(#"Movie Load state is unknown");
moviePlayer.contentURL = currentlyPlayingVideoURL;
[moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
}
}
If you check the value of MPMoviePlaybackState in this method, it will always be MPMoviePlaybackStateStopped when NEXT or BACK are pressed, so I'm not sure how to handle it...
It will showing black screen with loading activity indicator When i click the video in full screen and touch up the forward or Backward button.
I have using the following code for movie player
NSURL *fURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[self.winnersCircleDictionary objectForKey:#"videoname"]];
self.players=nil;
self.players=[[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]initWithContentURL:fURL];
[self.players setContentURL:fURL];
self.players.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFit;
self.players.repeatMode=MPMovieRepeatModeOne;
[[self.players view] setFrame:_webviewWinnerCircle.frame];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(moviePlayerPlaybackStateChanged:) name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification object:self.players];
object:nil];
self.players.shouldAutoplay=NO;
self.players.currentPlaybackTime=0.0;
[scrollViewWinnerCircle addSubview:self.players.view];
Forward and Backward button working fine in iOS 6 and this issue only have in iOS 7.
Thank You.
I just tried your code and got the issue , And solved like this.
Prepared the MoviePlayer like [self.players prepareToPlay]; for playing the selected video after adding the self.player.view as subview to the scrollViewWinnerCircle.
The code is as follows.
self.players = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]initWithContentURL:fURL];
[self.players setContentURL:fURL];
self.players.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFit;
self.players.repeatMode = MPMovieRepeatModeOne;
[[self.players view] setFrame:_containerView.frame];
self.players.shouldAutoplay = NO;
self.players.currentPlaybackTime = 0.0;
[_containerView addSubview:self.players.view];
[self.players prepareToPlay]; // Prepares a movie player for playback.
[self.players pause]; // Pause playback of the loaded movie
It was the problem with the source, also didn't specified the source type.
Do like the following, its working for me with the url i used here.
NSURL *fURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8"];
self.players = nil;
self.players = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]initWithContentURL:fURL];
[self.players setContentURL:fURL];
// Specifying media source type
self.players.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeStreaming;
It take some time to load initially.
you have to use this code instead of MPMovieplayerController and import these library in you class:
AVKit
AVFoundation
NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4"];
AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURL];
AVPlayerViewController *playerViewController = [AVPlayerViewController new];
playerViewController.player = player;
[player play];
[self presentViewController:playerViewController animated:YES completion:nil];
after using above code you will be able to forward and back forward video.
I am trying to use MPMoviePlayerController to play m4v file before the game starts. The game is cocos2d based.
I made a MPMoviePlayerController with the required file and added it as child to CCDirector (which is a subclass of UIViewController). The reason why I am adding MPMoviePlayerController as child is that I want the game to keep loading in background.
My problem is that I am unable to find a way to remove the MPMoviePlayerController after the video finishes.
Please give suggestions.
Thanks in advance.
For cocos2D game CCVideoPlayer class is best and easy to play video. CLICK HERE FOR EXTENSION
You should be able to listen for the MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification notification, then remove the subview. This code worked in my tests:
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
self.player = moviePlayer;
moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
[moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
moviePlayer.view.frame = self.view.bounds;
moviePlayer.view.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
[moviePlayer play];
// wait for the video to finish...
MyViewController __weak *weakSelf = self;
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserverForName:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:self.player queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] usingBlock:^(NSNotification *note) {
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:weakSelf name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:weakSelf.player];
// remove the view
[weakSelf.player.view removeFromSuperview];
}];
If that doesn't work, you may need to post your player creation and setup code for us to help you figure out what's going on.
I have a weird problem for you all.
MPMoviePlayerController is playing the video fine, and the audio ONLY plays through headphones.
The real drag is that this only happens on some iPads and iPhones, even the SAME EXACT MODELS
running the SAME EXACT SYSTEM!
I've created a simple failing example here:
http://www.porcaro.org/MPMoviePlayerController/TestMovie.zip
I've seen it run fine and fail on iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
Here is the most relevant code. Thanks for any insight, I'm going to submit a bug to Apple as well:
(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
moviePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#/intro.m4v", [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]];
NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath];
theMoviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];
controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded;
movieView = [self view];
movieRect = [[self view] frame];
controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen;
theMoviePlayer.controlStyle = controlStyle;
theMoviePlayer.view.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
if (1) {
NSLog(#"Created theMoviePlayer: %#. Playing: %#", theMoviePlayer, moviePath);
}
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification object:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(checkForEndOfMovie:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification
object:theMoviePlayer];
// this line doesn't fix the problem
//[theMoviePlayer prepareToPlay];
[[theMoviePlayer view] setFrame:movieRect];
[movieView addSubview: [theMoviePlayer view]];
[theMoviePlayer play];
}
This is an old question but maybe it'll help someone. I came across the same issue and found out it was happening when the phone is in silent mode only.
Solution is to set the player's useApplicationAudioSession property to false.
[theMoviePlayer setUseApplicationAudioSession:NO];
This problem was happen to me once playing video on iPad 2 using mpMoviePlayer. The video was playing perfectly but audio only comes when earphones connected.
Solution to solve the problem:
[theMoviePlayer setUseApplicationAudioSession:NO];
I use MPMoviePlayerController to play a local file in my Application Document folder which have I have downloaded for a server URL:
itemMoviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[self.view addSubview:itemMoviePlayerController.view];
itemMoviePlayerController.fullscreen = YES;
itemMoviePlayerController.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;
itemMoviePlayerController.initialPlaybackTime = -1.0;
[itemMoviePlayerController play];
When I play .mov file just after I downloaded it, It shows up a black empty screen & app UI is unusable.
But if play same local file next time, it plays fine.
I even verified playState & localState for MPMoviePlayerController they seems fine.
What could be reason for black empty screen?
You need to retain your instance of MPMoviePlayerController i.e. as a property or an instance variable. The reference to the movie player is lost if you do not retain it.
You could try to put [itemMoviePlayerController prepareToPlay];
before the [itemMoviePlayerController play];
The way preferred by Apple to display an only full screen video is to present a modal MPMoviePlayerViewController (as Hollance said).
To present it, you should use something like :
moviePlayerViewController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:moviePlayerViewController];
[itemMoviePlayerController play];
This is documented by Apple here
You can read there that you should keep a reference to your MPMoviePlayerViewController in order to dismiss it later with
[self dismissMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:moviePlayerViewController].
I fixed this by putting
#property (strong, nonatomic) MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer;
in my .h file, and calling self.moviePlayer in all my code and it worked!
You need to use MPMoviePlayerViewController instead. Notice the word "View" in there.
I hope this will help. I solved this problem in my project
-(void)startPlayingMovie
{
NSLog(#"startPlayingMovie");
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle]
pathForResource:#"Start_video" ofType:#"mov"]];
moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc]
initWithContentURL:url];
moviePlayer.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.height, self.view.bounds.size.width);
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(moviePlayBackDidFinish:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:moviePlayer.moviePlayer];
moviePlayer.moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
moviePlayer.moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:moviePlayer];
[moviePlayer.moviePlayer setFullscreen:YES animated:NO];
NSLog(#"endPlayingMovie");
}
Same thing happened to me. It turns out, I had tried to play the movie while the UIImagePicker wasn't dismissed yet.
In my UIImagePickerDelegate I had to first dismiss the UIImagePicker Popup and then open the ViewController managing the MPMediaPlayerController:
- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)infoDict
{
//the first thing to do: dismiss the media picker
if ([ipPop isPopoverVisible])
{
[ipPop dismissPopoverAnimated:ANIMATION_SETTING];
}
myMediaPlayerViewController * playerVC = [[myMediaPlayerViewController alloc] initWithMediaDict:infoDict];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:playerVC animated:ANIMATION_SETTING];
}
I had this same problem and it made me crazy. It would work on one view controller fine (audio and video), but not work on another (black screen with just audio). In the end, all I did was CHANGE THE ORDER of the calls: I simply waited until I was done configuring the movie player before adding it to the view. In other words, I called "addSubview" on the line just before the call to "play".
This is the code I'm using to play a file from URL:
MPMoviePlayerViewController *movieViewController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:contentUrl]];
movieViewController.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:movieViewController];
[movieViewController release];
It seems to work fine for me. Two notes:
Some simulators (like the current iOS 5.0) crash when playing a movie, but it works on a real device
If you leave out the movieSourceType part, a black screen is shown for about a second before the movie starts
I had the same problem, solved it changing the extension of the file being played from .mpg to .mp4. apparently MPMoviePlayerController expects a correct extension, though from the documentation it is not clear to me that this is a requirement:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/mediaplayer/reference/MPMoviePlayerController_Class/Reference/Reference.html
Supported Formats This class plays any movie or audio file supported
in iOS. This includes both streamed content and fixed-length files.
For movie files, this typically means files with the extensions .mov,
.mp4, .mpv, and .3gp and using one of the following compression
standards:
This issue seems fixed after updating device iOS to 5.0.
Seems to iOS SDK issue for previous version
you must do like that with CGRectMake(0, 0, 0, 0) in the finished callback!
-(void)playMovieAtURL:(NSURL*)theURL
{
MPMoviePlayerController* theMovie=[[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:theURL];
theMovie.scalingMode=MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
theMovie.view.frame = CGRectMake(2, 246, 317, 70);
[self.view addSubview:theMovie.view];
// Register for the playback finished notification.
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:#selector(myMovieFinishedCallback:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:theMovie];
// Movie playback is asynchronous, so this method returns immediately.
[theMovie play];
}
// When the movie is done,release the controller.
-(void)myMovieFinishedCallback:(NSNotification*)aNotification
{
MPMoviePlayerController* theMovie=[aNotification object];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:theMovie];
theMovie.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 0, 0);
// Release the movie instance created in playMovieAtURL
[theMovie release];
}
I was having a similar issue. After playback there comes an empty screen, which prevents me to play video again.
Well here is my work around. That way play button doesn't disappear.
[self.movieController stop];
[self.movieController prepareToPlay];
[self.movieController pause];
Also, If you are using http URLs, make sure you disable App Transport Security in your projects *.plist file. It will also cause a black screen.
Add the following code:
<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
<key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key><true/>
</dict>
Here:
[INSERT CODE ABOVE HERE]
</dict>
</plist>
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