How to rotate screen in landscape orientation using AVPlayerViewController?

Question

I am using autolayout and in a screen I create AVPlayerViewController with half the size of main view. I am using UITabBarViewController and UINavigationController. This screen is navigated from first child ViewController of UITabBarViewController. Code is like this..

    avPlayerVideoController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];

    avPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:videoURL]];

    avPlayerVideoController.view.frame = CGRectMake( imgViewVideo.frame.origin.x, imgViewVideo.frame.origin.y, imgViewVideo.frame.size.width, imgViewVideo.frame.size.height);
    avPlayerVideoController.delegate = self;
    avPlayerVideoController.showsPlaybackControls = YES;
    avPlayerVideoController.player = avPlayer;
    [avPlayerVideoController.player play];

now I want the video to be rotated in landscape view when I click on that full screen button comes with AVPlayerViewController. It just remains in portrait orientation even I rotate my phone. And there is also no delegate method called when full screen button is tapped. Please I need this badly. Explain in detail how I should achieve this. Thank you

did you find a solution? – karthikeyan Oct 09 '17 at 09:37 — karthikeyan, Oct 09 '17 at 09:37
Im also facing the same issue, did you find a solution? – FelipeOliveira Feb 15 '18 at 14:27 — FelipeOliveira, Feb 15 '18 at 14:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '16 at 05:13

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add below code to your viewController with contains AVPlayerViewController

-(BOOL)shouldAutorotate{
    return YES;
}

-(UIInterfaceOrientationMask)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
}

Hope it Helps you.

answered Apr 05 '16 at 05:13

Vvk

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It didn't help me. When this method supportedInterfaceOrientations called? And I have used TabBarViewController. And this is the not the most top ViewController. It is navigated from the top lever ViewController. – Hiren Prajapati Apr 05 '16 at 05:18
@HirenPrajapati your `AVPlayerViewController ` is added subview or presented? – Vvk Apr 05 '16 at 05:26
oh my bad. In my project I only enabled portrait view. Btw AVPlayerViewController is added as subview. After enabling landscaped orientation from project, now I only want to change orientation when user clicks full screen button. How can I do this? Am I doing wrong? Just because of one screen should I turn on landscape orientation support? Because screen rotates in every ViewController. – Hiren Prajapati Apr 05 '16 at 05:33
So after understanding issue completely, now my question is by disabling landscape orientation support from project, how this added AVPlayerViewController in self.view can rotate to landscape when tapping full screen button? – Hiren Prajapati Apr 05 '16 at 05:40
yes this is right way to disabling landscape from project. but i can'w understand why are you adding AVPlayer as subview? why are you not presentining? can you please temm me for better understaing your issue – Vvk Apr 05 '16 at 06:00

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 30 '16 at 15:29

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-(UIInterfaceOrientationMask)supportedInterfaceOrientations{
    [avPlayerLayer removeFromSuperlayer];
    [avPlayerLayer setFrame:self.view.bounds];
    [self.view.layer addSublayer:avPlayerLayer];
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
}

edited Aug 30 '16 at 15:29

Frits

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answered Aug 30 '16 at 13:56

tju077

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How to rotate screen in landscape orientation using AVPlayerViewController?

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