Question

I’m displaying contents of the tmp directory in a UITableView, but cannot get the filepath for each cell.

When the cell is pressed, my app should play the file with MPMoviePlayer but is not.

This is what I have so far:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {


NSString *tmpDirectory = NSTemporaryDirectory();
fileList = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:tmpDirectory error:nil]; //nsarray

NSString *movieURL = [fileList objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:movieURL];

_moviePlayerViewController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];

[self presentModalViewController:_moviePlayerViewController animated:YES];
}

NSlog gives me the name of the video, but not the path. I feel like I’m over thinking this from lack of sleep.

Answer 1

When you use this:

NSString *movieURL = [fileList objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];

It’ll return only the file name inside the temporary directory,
So use this:

NSString *movieURL = [tmpDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[fileList objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];

NSURL*url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:movieURL];