iPhone SDK:How do you play video inside a view? Ra

Question

I am trying to play video inside a UIView, so my first step was to add a class for that view and start playing a movie in it using this code:

- (IBAction)movie:(id)sender{
    NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
        NSString *moviePath = [bundle pathForResource:@"Movie" ofType:@"m4v"];
    NSURL *movieURL = [[NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath] retain];
    MPMoviePlayerController *theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];
    theMovie.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
    [theMovie play];
}

But this just crashes the app when using this method inside it's own class, but is fine elsewhere. Does anyone know how to play video inside a view? and avoid it being full screen?

Answer 1

Use the following method.

self.imageView_VedioContainer is the container view of your AVPlayer.

- (void)playMedia:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)tapGesture
{
    playerViewController = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc] init];

    playerViewController.player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:[[NSBundle mainBundle]
                                                 URLForResource:@"VID"
                                                         withExtension:@"3gp"]];
    [playerViewController.player play];
    playerViewController.showsPlaybackControls =YES;
    playerViewController.view.frame=self.imageView_VedioContainer.bounds;
    [playerViewController.view setAutoresizingMask:UIViewAutoresizingNone];// you can comment this line 
    [self.imageView_VedioContainer addSubview: playerViewController.view];
}

Answer 2

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[exreciesDescription objectForKey:@"exercise_url"]];
moviePlayer =[[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL: url];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(doneButtonClicked) name:MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification object:nil];
[[moviePlayer view] setFrame: [self.view bounds]];  // frame must match parent view
[self.view addSubview: [moviePlayer view]];
[moviePlayer play];

-(void)playMediaFinished:(NSNotification*)theNotification 
{
    moviePlayer=[theNotification object];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self
                                                    name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
                                                  object:moviePlayer];


    [moviePlayer.view removeFromSuperview];
}

-(void)doneButtonClicked
  {
         [moviePlayer stop];
        [moviePlayer.view removeFromSuperview];
         [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];//no need this if you are      opening the player in same screen;
  }

Answer 3

Swift version:

import AVFoundation

func playVideo(url: URL) {

    let player = AVPlayer(url: url)

    let layer: AVPlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
    layer.backgroundColor = UIColor.white.cgColor
    layer.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300)
    layer.videoGravity = .resizeAspectFill
    self.view.layer.addSublayer(layer)

    player.play()
}