How can I play movies on the toppest screen in IOS?

Question

I am trying to play movies from a view controller. I am using the code below to do that:

VideoPlayerViewController* moviePlayer = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"videoPlayerController"];
moviePlayer.view.frame = rect;
UIWindow *window = [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows] lastObject];
[window.rootViewController presentViewController:moviePlayer animated:NO completion:nil];
[moviePlayer playMoviesForItems:items];

Normally it works fine. But sometimes, movie starts but I cannot see the video, just I can hear the sounds.

What is the best way to play video on top of everything?

Answer 1

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"myVideo" ofType:@"mp4"];   

MPMoviePlayerController *myPlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] init];
myPlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
myPlayer.repeatMode = MPMovieRepeatModeOne;
myPlayer.fullscreen = YES;
myPlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;
myPlayer.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFit;
myPlayer.contentURL =[NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
[self.view addSubview:myPlayer.view];
[myPlayer play];

Another solution would be to segue to another ViewController and dissmiss it when the movie ends.

Answer 2

You can also try using AVPlayer. In that case, you can play the video in your current view itself without having a separate overlay for the video.

Here's an example of playing multiple AVPlayers. You can modify the code to play a single video.