Question

I have a video saved in my xcode project that I want to play as a response to a button click. Does IOS have built in media API’s to handle that? Could anyone give the class name that handles video on the iPhone?

Answer 1

Here’s some code to get you started:

MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"yourfilename" ofType:@"m4v"]]];
        [[moviePlayerController view] setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, parentView.frame.size.width, parentView.frame.size.height)];
        [moviePlayerController setShouldAutoplay:NO];
        [moviePlayerController setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleEmbedded];
        [[moviePlayerController backgroundView] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
        [moviePlayerController prepareToPlay];

By the documentation you have to set the MPMoviePlayerController’s frame with a frame as big as the parent view’s.