Question

I want to play the video from url in iphone app but it does not play in the app i am using following code

-(IBAction)play
{
     NSString*videoFilepath=@"http://myserver.com.pk/Specticle_Revision_v1.mov";
     NSLog(@"Filepath is: %@", videoFilepath);
     NSURL *videoURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:videoFilepath];   
     MPMoviePlayerController *movie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];
     [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(playbackFinishedCallback:) name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:movie];
     [movie play];
}

Answer 1

Do this:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://myserver.com.pk/Specticle_Revision_v1.mov"];
MPMoviePlayerViewController *mp = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                 selector:@selector(moviePlaybackDidFinish:)
                                     name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
                                   object:mp];    

mp.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeStreaming;

[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:mp];
[mp release];