I have an app with a splash screen. For the splashscreen I've decided to add a m4v movie. I'm using the MPMoviePlayerController
to show the movie. Everything is working as expected except for one thing:
I'm trying to make the MPMoviePlayerController
loop by subscribing to it's MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
notification and issuing a [notification.object play]
if the data didn't finish loading.
This works partially, it restarts the movie, but there's the fadeout and re-fadein that make it look bad.
Is there any other way to loop the movie?
Or any way to remove the fades?
Best Answer
By complete coincidence I have just written a blog post on this subject - we ran into this problem while we were writing our latest app :)
Assuming that you don't want to follow my shameless plug, here's how we fixed it :
When the movie ends, it will fade out before it loops round. As Default.png is exactly the same as the start and end frames, the user will never notice :)
When you want to end the movie just remove the Default.png UIImageView and stop the movie - as the background is clear it will just fade out to whatever ui you have in your window.
Sam