Adding MPMoviePlayerController in full screen?

Question

I have a UIButton in an iPhone app that plays a movie when I click on it. The code for playing the movie is as follows:

NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"Robot" withExtension:@"m4v"]; moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url]; moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlModeDefault; [moviePlayer.view setFrame: self.view.bounds]; [self.view addSubview: moviePlayer.view]; [moviePlayer play]; 

I would like the movie to open in full screen mode, like all movies did before the iOS 3.2 update, where the blue “Finish” button was in the upper left corner and the video played in landscape mode by default.

Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Assuming self.view uses full screen:

 NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"Robot" withExtension:@"m4v"]; moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url]; moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen; moviePlayer.view.transform = CGAffineTransformConcat(moviePlayer.view.transform, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI_2)); [moviePlayer.view setFrame: self.view.bounds]; [self.view addSubview: moviePlayer.view]; [moviePlayer play]; 

Now, assuming that you basically do not want to use the current self.view, but just work in full-screen mode (I call it: fake-fullscreen, since it does not call the full-screen property);

 NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"Robot" withExtension:@"m4v"]; moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url]; moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen; moviePlayer.view.transform = CGAffineTransformConcat(moviePlayer.view.transform, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI_2)); UIWindow *backgroundWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow]; [moviePlayer.view setFrame:backgroundWindow.frame]; [backgroundWindow addSubview:moviePlayer.view]; [moviePlayer play]; 

Answer 2

I think the best way to solve it is to use MPMoviePlayerViewController instead of MPMoviePlayerController .

The MPMoviePlayerViewController class implements a simple view controller for displaying full-screen movies. Unlike using the MPMoviePlayerController object to immediately present a movie, you can enable the video player viewer wherever you normally use a view controller.

To present the video player view controller in a fashionable way, you usually use the presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated: method. This method is part of the category in the UIViewController class and is implemented by the Media Player framework . The presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated: method is a video player view controller using standard transition animations to represent video content. To reject a modally presented movie view controller, call the dismissMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated method.