R – moviePlayer setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait not work

iphonempmovieplayercontroller

I got a problem that it hasn't change to portrait mode when using the following code:

NSString *url = @"http://abc.com/movie.3gp";

MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];

moviePlayer.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill; // seen nothing change when comment this line

if([moviePlayer respondsToSelector:@selector(setOrientation:animated:)])
    [moviePlayer setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait animated:NO];

[moviePlayer play];

Is my code problem? anyone can solve my problem or any alternative?

Thanks.

Best Answer

is there any particular reason you expect this code to work? MPMoviePlayerController isn't documented as having a setOrientation method...

I don't think there's a way to make this happen.

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- (void) moviePlayBackDidFinish:(NSNotification*)notification
{
    // remove observer
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] 
     removeObserver:self
     name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
     object:thePlayer];

    [thePlayer release];
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and

thePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:theMovie];

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] 
     addObserver:self 
     selector:@selector(moviePlayBackDidFinish:) 
     name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification 
     object:thePlayer];

[thePlayer play];

elsewhere.

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The only way to have a youtube video play inside your own app is to create a UIWebView with the embed tag from Youtube for the movie you want to play as the UIWebView's content. UIWebView will detect that the embedded object is a Youtube link, and the web view's content will be the youtube preview for the video. When your user clicks the preview, the video will be shown in an MPMoviePlayerController. This is the technique described at the link that Muxecoid provided (how to play youtube videos within an application), and this is (as far as I know of) the only way to have a youtube video play within an application. You can still have the Youtube application launch by passing the youtube URL to -[UIApplication openURL:], but of course this closes your own application which is often undesirable.

Unfortunately, there's no way to directly play a youtube video with MPMoviePlayerController because youtube does not expose direct links to the video files.

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