Iphone – How To Rotate An MPMoviePlayerController

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I am building an iPhone app that plays videos on demand from a web service.

The videos play in an MPMoviePlayerController, and everything works fine on the iPhone device.

However, when one loads up the iPhone application on an iPad, the videos play Portrait mode (with letterboxing on the top and bottom), instead of Landscape Left like they do on the iPhone.

At first the videos were not appearing at all, however I fixed this by adding the MPMoviePlayerControllers view to the view that is creating it, as a subview, and then set it to play fullscreen.

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Edit To Original:

I now have it playing on the iPad in all rotations. Is there any way to stop it rotating, and just have it play LandscapeLeft?

Thanks,
Dwaine

Best Answer

iPad apps are supposed to support all four interface orientations.

EDIT: I haven't managed to find official docs to cite. It might be simply that iPad apps are supposed to be able to launch in all orientations, though you can force some bits to be landscape if it's "sensible". Whether Apple rejects your app or not is another issue, but I think they're unlikely to reject a video app that plays video in landscape.

After some experimentation, the following seems to work:

@interface MyMovieViewController : MPMoviePlayerViewController
@end

@implementation MyMovieViewController
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationIsLandscape(toInterfaceOrientation);
}

@end

Then just instantiate MyMovieViewController instead of MPMoviePlayerViewController.

EDIT 2: MPMoviePlayerViewController is not the same as MPMoviePlayerController; you use it to get the behaviour of the 2.0-3.1 MPMoviePlayerController. You need to add the view controller to the VC hierarchy, but it's pretty simple (and a lot easier than messing around with view transforms):

MPMoviePlayerViewController * vc = [[MyMovieViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:aUrl];
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:vc];
[vc.moviePlayer play];

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Hi all I had same problem I resolved it -

Here is my complete code....

You need to first change in appdelegate:

-(NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{
if ([[[NowPlaying sharedManager] playerViewController] allowRotation])//Place your condition here
{
    return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(moviePlayerWillEnterFullscreenNotification:)
                                             name:MPMoviePlayerWillEnterFullscreenNotification
                                           object:nil];

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(moviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification:)
                                             name:MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification
                                           object:nil];

Then add line of code in the player controller:

- (void)moviePlayerWillEnterFullscreenNotification:(NSNotification *)notification
{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^
               {
                   self.allowRotation = YES;
               });
}



- (void)moviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification:(NSNotification *)notification
{
self.allowRotation = NO;
[self.moviePlayerController setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleNone];

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^
               {

                   //Managing GUI in pause condition
                       if (self.currentContent.contentType == TypeVideo && self.moviePlayerController.playbackState == MPMoviePlaybackStatePaused)
                   {
                       [self.moviePlayerController pause];
                       if (self.playButton.selected)
                           self.playButton.selected = NO;
                   }
                   self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(0);
                   [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait];
                   self.view.bounds = CGRectMake(0, 0, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height);
               });
}

This code is tested in iOS6 and iOS7 working fine. Thanks :)

Please let me know if there is any question.....

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