Question

On the iphone, when trying to play a broken url using MPMoviePlayerController the user gets an alertbox with the message “the server is not correctly configured”.

Is there any way to change this to something more user-friendly? Alternatively, is there any way to get an error status from the player instead of getting this message?

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

MPMoviePlayer provides two notifications for the case of a broken / invalid movie URL:

From MPMoviePlayer initWithContentURL:

To check for errors in URL loading, register for the MPMoviePlayerContentPreloadDidFinishNotification or
MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification notifications.
On error, these notifications contain an NSError
object available using the @”error” key in the notification’s userInfo dictionary.

You should be able to hook to one oh these notifications and perform the needed actions
if a broken URL is about to be loaded.