I am trying to play a video from URL which is playing in VLC media player but not playing in native player i.e MPMoviePlayer

Question

It is showing like this in browser,when I click on play it doesn't do anything. But the same URL is working fine in Android native player.

Here is my code and URL of that video stored in server, format of video is MP4.

I tried with some other URLs like

NSURL *url=[[NSURL alloc] initWithString:@"http://www.ebookfrenzy.com/ios_book/movie/movie.mov"];
NSURL *urll = [[NSURL alloc]initWithString:@"http://nordenmovil.com/urrea/InstalaciondelavaboURREAbaja.mp4"];

These are working fine but below one is not working

NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc]initWithString:@"http://****IP****.com:8888/alias_1440247177838"];
moviePlayer=[[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
moviePlayer.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 20, self.videoPlayView.frame.size.width, self.videoPlayView.frame.size.height * (1.0f/3.0f)-20);
moviePlayer.controlStyle=MPMovieControlStyleDefault;
moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay=YES;
[self.videoPlayView addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
[moviePlayer setFullscreen:YES animated:YES];

what does this URL return? Did you try this URL in a browser or VLC player? — S1LENT WARRIOR, Aug 23 '15 at 08:16
@S1LENTWARRIOR it is not playing in browser, instead it is showing just a play icon,when I click on play even also it is not playing anything. But in Android native player it is working fine. — Santo, Aug 24 '15 at 06:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '15 at 08:05

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Unfortunately MPMoviePlayer can only play video from a direct link. (similar to the ones that you mentioned in your question.

You can either:

use a direct link
Or switch to UIWebView instead of MPMoviePlayer

You can use a UIWebView in following way:

UIWebView* webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
[self.view addSubview:webView];
webView.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = YES;
NSURL* url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://****IP****.com:8888/alias_1440247177838"];
[webView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]];

Hope this helps!

answered Aug 24 '15 at 08:05

S1LENT WARRIOR

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@ S1LENT WARRIOR: I tried with webview also even though it is not working. – Santo Aug 24 '15 at 09:55
@Santo can you share the actual URL of the video? – S1LENT WARRIOR Aug 24 '15 at 10:53
I cant share URL for security purpose. But don't understand why it is not playing when it can play in VLC as well as in Android. – Santo Aug 24 '15 at 14:03
@Santo let me know if this helps you. and i'll update my answer – S1LENT WARRIOR Aug 25 '15 at 07:00
ok thank you I will check once with server side and I will update my answer. Thanks bro :) – Santo Aug 25 '15 at 07:29

I am trying to play a video from URL which is playing in VLC media player but not playing in native player i.e MPMoviePlayer

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