iPhone-MPMediaPlayer disable seek forward button

Question

I would like to remove or disable the seek forward button from the MPMediaPlayer. I have tried to enumerate all the views but apparently I could not find this button.

Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks.

provide some code or more information what you are actually doing... — DShah, Sep 29 '11 at 16:07
I am presenting an MPMediaPlayerViewController in order to play a movie. It is imperative to prevent the user to fast forward to movie. But the backward and play/pause functions must work. — Andrei Neacsu, Sep 29 '11 at 18:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '11 at 08:43

You could always provide a custom control panel, you can hide the default controls with

playerController.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;

Then add a subview containing your interface and just link buttons to play/pause start/stop rewinding, and there's an open source implementation of the variable speed slider (OBSlider). You will also need to register for some MP notifications:

MPMovieDurationAvailableNotification
MPMoviePlayerLoadStateDidChangeNotification
MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
MPMoviePlayerPlaybackStateDidChangeNotification

I only need to disable the seek forward button. – Andrei Neacsu Oct 11 '11 at 08:32 — Andrei Neacsu, Oct 11 '11 at 08:32

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '11 at 08:37

The only way I found is to add a transparent button over the seek forward button. Here is the code:

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[super viewDidAppear:animated];

    UIButton *button = [[UIButton alloc] init];

    if(UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(self.interfaceOrientation))
        [button setFrame:CGRectMake(535, 599, 90, 60)];
    else
        [button setFrame:CGRectMake(407, 855, 90, 60)];

    [button setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
    [button setAlpha:0.7];
    [button setTag:1200];

    [self.moviePlayer.view addSubview:button];
    [button release];
}


- (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration
{
    if(UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(toInterfaceOrientation))
    {
        UIButton *button = (UIButton *)[self.moviePlayer.view viewWithTag:1200];
        [button setFrame:CGRectMake(535, 599, 90, 60)];
    }
    else
    {
        UIButton *button = (UIButton *)[self.moviePlayer.view viewWithTag:1200];
        [button setFrame:CGRectMake(407, 855, 90, 60)];
    }
}

This is for IPAD ONLY! If you would like to do the same on iPhone, please change the position of the transparent button.

And when Apple change the position of the controller in an update, then what? — Alastair Stuart, Oct 11 '11 at 09:02
Then please find another way to do it if you don't like this answer. :P...oh, and a way accepted by Apple. Thanks — Andrei Neacsu, Oct 11 '11 at 09:47

iPhone-MPMediaPlayer disable seek forward button

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