Unable to play MP4 video file from mainBundle

Question

So I'm trying to play a simple intro animation video file that I've dragged into my project in XCode and therefore should be able to play from my mainBundle, right?

With this code:

 NSURL *urlString = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"introvideo" ofType:@"mp4"]]; 
MPMoviePlayerController *player  = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:urlString];
[player play];

I get this error message: * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '* -[NSURL initFileURLWithPath:]: nil string parameter'

Any help would be great!

Answer 1

I had put an entire "Sounds" directory into the project, and added it to the "Copy bundle resources" section. It was working fine, but then it started crashing.

The fix was to prepend the directory name to the filenames. Eg, this didn't work:

SKAction.playSoundFileNamed("crash.caf", waitForCompletion: false)

... but this did work:

SKAction.playSoundFileNamed("Sounds/crash.caf", waitForCompletion: false)