iOS: MPMoviePlayerController Done button doesn't work - ios

Question

I am adding an MPMoviePlayerController to a view like so:
player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
player.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
[player.view setFrame:self.playerView.bounds];
[self.playerView addSubview:player.view];
self.playerView is a small view inside my main view and I have custom buttons that control playback within that same main view. This all works fine.
I have a fullscreen button that works like so:
- (IBAction) btnFullScreenPressed:(id)sender {
[player setFullscreen:TRUE animated:TRUE];
[player setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen];
}
This works fine, but then when I hit the Done button on the full screen controls, the movie stops playing but does not return to the smaller self.playerView in my view. How can I get it to "un-fullscreen" and return to the smaller self.playerView?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Quite unintuitively you actually have to set the control style to default, i.e.:
- (IBAction) btnFullScreenPressed:(id)sender {
[player setFullscreen:TRUE animated:TRUE];
[player setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleDefault];
}
and, of course, then set it back to none when you receive MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification or MPMoviePlayerDidExitFullscreenNotification (I prefer "did exit").