Question

I have been trying to play a mp4 file, I am receiving url from server, I have given that to MPMoviePlayerController, player is loading but file is not playing. Here is the code…

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:obj->msg_url]; // obj->url is a html php url not a direct file url.
    moviePlayer =  [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]
                    initWithContentURL:url];

    moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleDefault; 
    moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
    [self.view addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
    [moviePlayer setFullscreen:YES animated:YES];

So in this case how can I use MPMoviePlayerController to play from html url. Any idea?

thanks

Answer 1

I have downloaded first and played its working now.

        NSArray       *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
        NSString  *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];

        NSString  *filePath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/%@", documentsDirectory,@"sample.mp4"];
        [urlData writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];


        NSURL *file_url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filePath];
        moviePlayer =  [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]
                        initWithContentURL:file_url];

        moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleDefault;
        moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
        [self.view addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
        [moviePlayer setFullscreen:YES animated:YES];