Question

I’m trying to create an app that displays an info page once a video stops playing. I’ve looked at a similar question posted here and tried to implement it but it still doesn’t work. I put an NSLog in the movieFinishedCallback method but that never came up so I’m guessing it doesn’t even get called. Can someone help me figure it out?

Here’s my implementation code…

-(IBAction)playvideo {


    NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle]
                                         pathForResource:@"sample" ofType:@"mov"]];

    MPMoviePlayerViewController *playercontroller = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc]
                                                     initWithContentURL:url];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
     addObserver:self
     selector:@selector(movieFinishedCallback:)                                                 
     name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
     object:playercontroller];



    [self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:playercontroller];

    playercontroller.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;


    [playercontroller.moviePlayer play];


    playercontroller = nil;

} 


- (void) movieFinishedCallback:(NSNotification*) notification {

  NSLog (@"The video ended");

  MPMoviePlayerController *player = [notification object];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] 
     removeObserver:self
     name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
     object:player];    
    player = nil;


    View2 *second =[[View2 alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];

    [self presentModalViewController:second animated:YES];

}

Answer 1

FINALLY made it work! I don’t know if it has to do with the fact that MPMoviePlayerViewController doesn’t respond to the NSNotificationCenter but I used MPMoviePlayerController instead to display my video, registered the notification for movieFinishedCallback and then used the movieFinishedCallback method to switch views. See this tutorial for video play http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Video_Playback_from_within_an_iOS_5_iPhone_Application. Only thing is, now the video won’t rotate to landscape!