Question

I am developing an iPhone application in which I play videos using MPMoviePlayerController.

Sometimes, some of the videos don’t play immediately after I call play on MPMoviePlayerController.

I have called prepareToPlay and in the notified method of MPMediaPlaybackIsPreparedToPlayDidChangeNotification, I am calling play on MPMoviePlayerController.

Could someone help in identifying the problem here?

Thanks,
Laxmilal

Answer 1

From my answer in a similar thread (reducing-the-initial-delay-when-playing-remote-video-content) – Note this fragment of the solution is valid for both, remote and local video content.

Use theMPMoviePlayerController.movieSourceTypeproperty when initializing your
player to cut down the media
recognition delay.

From the MPMoviePlayerController Class Reference:

The default value of this property is
MPMovieSourceTypeUnknown. This
property provides a clue to the
playback system as to how it should
download and buffer the movie content.
If you know the source type of the
movie, setting the value of this
property before playback begins can
improve the load times for the movie
content. If you do not set the source
type explicitly before playback, the
movie player controller must gather
this information, which might delay
playback.