Question

I have a MPMoviePlayerController that is initialized as follows:

//Code in my UIViewController
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIView *myVideoView;
@property (nonatomic, strong) MPMoviePlayerController *myVideoPlayer;

- (void) initializeVideoPlayer
{
    CGRect frame = CGRectMake(0, 70, self.view.frame.size.width, 200);
    self.myVideoView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
    [self.view addSubview:self.myVideoView];

    NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];

    self.myVideoPlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];
    self.myVideoPlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded;
    self.myVideoPlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
    [self.myVideoPlayer.view setFrame: self.myVideoView.bounds];
    [self.myVideoView addSubview: self.myVideoPlayer.view];

    //Play video
    [self.myVideoPlayer prepareToPlay];
    [self.myVideoPlayer play];

}

My question is how do I get the video to play in fullscreen when the user rotates the phone to landscape and not fullscreen when the phone is in portrait.

I’ve tried adding the following to my UIViewController

- (void) willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration
{
    if(UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(toInterfaceOrientation))
    {
        [self.myVideoPlayer setFullscreen:YES animated:YES];
    }
    else
    {
        [self.myVideoPlayer setFullscreen:NO animated:YES];
    }
}

However, the problem with this is that once the player is in fullscreen, the willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation no longer gets called; therefore, even when the user rotates back to portrait, the video is still in fullscreen.

Answer 1

Try using an MPMoviePlayerViewController instead of an MPMoviePlayerController. Just initialize it in your UIViewController and use its moviePlayer property as you would with a plain MPMoviePlayerController. If you subclass MPMoviePlayerViewController you can control what’s happening when the device rotates by implementing willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation etc.