iOS API : A movie player (of type MPMoviePlayerController) that manages the playback of a movie from a file or a network stream. MPMoviePlayerController was replaced in iOS 8 by AVKit classes such as `AVPlayerViewController`, and is formally deprecated in iOS 9
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Better way to make MPMoviePlayer with Overlay view
When we creating application with MPMoviePlayer (within custom UIViewController) and with overlay UIViewController on top of movie player what is better:
- Load movie in player with self.view.presentModalView... or self.view.addSubView...
Or is…

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MPMoviePlayerViewController stops playback when unplugging headphones
I'm currently developing a web-tv application that uses MPMoviePlayerViewController resp. MPMoviePlayer to playback streaming video content on the iphone.
the issue I've got here is that once i unplug my headphones (while watching tv) the player…

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Play videos automatically on Tableview cell in iOS
I want to play videos on Tableview using MPMoviePlayer. So I have 10 videos and I need to load the videos on tableview. So while scrolling on tableview, don't want to play videos. Once tableview scrolling completed, current visible cell index video…

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How to detect when iPhone MPMoviePlayer controls appear/disappear?
I'm trying to add custom buttons to the left and right of the standard rewind/play/forward controls in an MPMoviePlayerController view (OS 2.x and up). I've figured out how to add them to the player window, but they're always visible. Is there a…
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Custom progress slider control on MPMoviePlayer
Is there a way to customise the look or at least position of the movie progress slider on MPMovidePlayer?

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I want to play many videos back to back without delay using mpmovieplayer in ios
I want to play many videos back to back without delay.movies are in mp4 format and i want to run them from main bundle
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How to show "Loading Movie..." message with MPMoviePlayerController
I'm working with the MPMoviePlayerController for the iOS platform and am not sure why the "Done" and "Loading Movie..." controls are not displaying automatically when loading a new video.
My original implementation of this was to use the UIWebView…

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Dismiss MPMoviePlayerViewController on play error
I have a problem with the MPMoviePlayerViewController: If the controller can't find the movie at the specified URL it displays a white screen and I can't make it go close.
This is how I start the movie player:
- (void) playVideo:(NSString*)path
{
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ios MPMoviePlayerController movie controls do not show the correct time
I have following code that I use to play a selected portion of a movie clip. The movie plays okay. But the scrubber bar does not reflect the correct start stop time. Also, the forward and rewind buttons take the clip beyond the segment that was…

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MPMoviePlayerController shows blank white screen before launch?
I have an MPMoviePlayerController that I am presenting modally. The video loads fine, however just before the video is launched the screen turns white until it has loaded. How can I prevent this from happening?
moviePlayerViewController =…

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iOS: How to save a video in your directory and play it afterwards?
I am working in an iOS project. I want may application to download a video from the internet programmatically. Then I want to play it. I know how can I play a local video from the Resources, but my question is how could I download it , and the find…

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MPInlineVideoFullscreenViewController and AVFullScreenViewController first time comes in portrait mode
There are too many questions related to landscape issue in MPMovieplayer. My application is in portrait mode.But i wanna video in landscape mode.I already have landscape/portrait functionality for video. I am using the following code:
static…

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Load Youtube URL & Playing Only The Audio Of A Video File
I was wondering if there was any way to load a YouTube URL like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8 and then only playing only the audio from this video in Xcode.
Thanks!
-Petahwil

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MPMoviePlayerController with a Custom Button on its toolbar
You might have seen video through you tube in iPhone.
Normal MPMoviePlayerController has previous, next & play/pause buttons.
You tube - player has additional two buttons on it.
=> Add to favorites on the left side.
=> Email this video on right…

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MPMoviePlayer streaming video buffer size
Is there a way to detect how much data has been buffered while streaming video in MPMoviePlayerController?
I've already checked loadState but that does not give me enough info about buffering.
Youtube's app has exactly what I want...

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