Hey All,
Im working on an app for the iPad and Ive run across an issue that I need some guidance on. I have an app that uses the TabBarController. The TabBarController contains 4 UIViewController...one for each screen in the app. On each of these 4 screens, there are 4 tiles that need to act as buttons and play a video when clicked. I would like to play the video in a view that hovers over the rest of the screen and is dismissed if the user touches anywhere outside the playing video.
My question is: How do I go about implementing the custom view to play the video? It seems to me that it should be just another view with a viewController...but I dont know if that is the correct way to go about this. Also, how do I get it to play the right video depending on what button was clicked?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Alex
I'm not sure if I entirely get what the question is, if my answer is not enough please be more precise.
first you initialize your video player view controller class MPMoviePlayerController, then you can do whatever you want with it's .view property, or the container view to display your 4 buttons.
NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSString *moviePath = [bundle pathForResource:#"someMovie" ofType:#"m4v"];
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:url]];
player.view.frame = CGRectMake(someX, someY, someWidth, someHeight);
[self.view addSubview:player.view];
[player play];
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I have a basic login screen setup; logo, username, and password field. I had a designer make a cool animation for the logo and received it as an MP4 file.
I would like to make it so that when the user opens the app, or visits the login screen, the logo animation plays once in my view.
I was only able to find libraries to play MP4 files full screen or with a play button being triggered on the middle of the view with a close button on the top corners, similar to how you would watch a regular video on iPhone.
Anyone know how to play an embedded animation within a view just once? I could possibly ask for the animation in a different file format if theres another way.
Thanks!
I think you can achieve this using .gif file in a better way.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:#"test" withExtension:#"gif"];
UIImage *testImage = [UIImage animatedImageWithAnimatedGIFData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url]];
self.dataImageView.animationImages = testImage.images;
self.dataImageView.animationDuration = testImage.duration;
self.dataImageView.animationRepeatCount = 1;
self.dataImageView.image = testImage.images.lastObject;
[self.dataImageView startAnimating];
}
.gif file would play for only once & then last frame of that file would be stable.
Hope this would help..!!!
You can use MPMoviePlayerController to play the movie.
Refer to this post
iPhone SDK:How do you play video inside a view? Rather than fullscreen
I'm making a news iOS app, i want to implement a live audio streaming in all the pages like the picture below:
The orange view is a UIView that says "Live Streaming" (in Arabic), it exists in all the viewControllers, i want to let the AVPlayer plays when the user clicks on it and still plays even if the user navigates to other viewControllers.
I can't seem to find a good solution or tutorial about this, sorry if this is a noob question cause i'm new to iOS.
So how can i do that ? and where(in which viewController) should i put the AVPlayer declaration ?
Thanks in advance.
If you are testing in the simulator, the change of views will not continue the audio in the background. If it is not working your device try this:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: yourURLHere];
AVURLAsset *avAsset = [AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:url options:nil];
AVPlayerItem *playerItem = [AVPlayerItem playerItemWithAsset:avAsset];
AVPlayer *audioPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithPlayerItem:playerItem];
//This enables background music playing
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents];
[audioPlayer play];
Place this code in your viewDidLoad method, before [super viewDidLoad];
I found two links that exaplin some of the issues on this:
Play Music in Background
Play Audio from Internet
If this does not work, I would recommend placing a bounty on the question as it seems your issue's are a little more in depth than a simple solution.
I found the solution, i had to make a singleton class.
The singleton class allow only one object to be used in the entire iOS application by all the ViewControllers.
And i did put all the needed methods like play and pause in the singleton class and i accessed them from all the ViewControllers.
If anybody wants an example, please ask in the comments.
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 =)
Hi sorry for this old question. I have tried to research but still have no solution :(.
I need to implement a video controller with my own control buttons. Base on apple example
I use MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
player.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone; and add my own layer over player.view. There is a problem with my seekForward function. I can not set player.currentPlaybackTime = player.duration (when user press seekForward until reaching the end of the movie). I want to switch to AVPlayer but there is another issues. How can I custom with my own button?. Please help.
I have the same issue with MPMoviePlayerController. Also We can't add more than one MPMoviePlayerController in a same view. For this, I have created a custom player using AVPlayer having basic features. You can download it from my github account HRVideoPlayer. Let me know if you want more detailed version. I have built my own video player having all functionalities like Seeking, volume control, brightness control, replace currentItem, Repeat and shuffle.
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.