Question

I am trying to play videos from url which my web service returns using MPMoviePlayerViewController. A sample url returned is:

http://view.vzaar.com/1128188/player

Which i pass to MPMoviePlayerViewController. Do you think this url is compatible to be played?

Answer 1

I looked at the source of that page, and it’s an html page. I did find a html5 source url. Try:
http://view.vzaar.com/1128188/video

Yes, with above url. I just tried it in xcode and I got it to work.

NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:@"http://view.vzaar.com/1128188/video"];

   self.moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];

   [self.moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
   [self.moviePlayer.view setFrame:self.view.bounds];  // player's frame must match parent's
   [self.view addSubview: self.moviePlayer.view];

   [self.moviePlayer play];