From what I have gathered from internets the MPMoviePlayerController class doesn’t support small video playback. So, in an effort to beat a dead horse I was wondering what kind of methods could be used to get a small video playing in a corner of the screen without interrupting the rest of the screen.
So far we’ve come across two solutions that may work: using a UIImageView and flopping images through it like a madman and using a large fullscreen video with all the animations we need already on it and skipping around as needed.
Am I wrong about the MPMoviePlayerController not supporting non-fullscreen video? Is their an easier solution than making UIImageView flip-books? Is cutting around a video a performance hazard?
I think you’re stuck with flip books. Pretty sure the fullscreen video issue is a limitation of the hardware video decoder.