thumbnailImageAtTime: now deprecated - What's the alternative?

Question

Until iOS7 update I was using...

UIImage *image = [moviePlayer thumbnailImageAtTime:1.0 timeOption:MPMovieTimeOptionNea         


        

Answer 1

I've just looked for a solution for this problem myself and got good help from your question. Got your code above to work with one small change, removed a colon...

Change

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(MPMoviePlayerThumbnailImageRequestDidFinishNotification::) name:MPMoviePlayerThumbnailImageRequestDidFinishNotification object:moviePlayer];

to

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(MPMoviePlayerThumbnailImageRequestDidFinishNotification:) name:MPMoviePlayerThumbnailImageRequestDidFinishNotification object:moviePlayer];

Got this to work nicely. Also, I've found that you can't call a method the rely on NotificationCenter if you're already in a notification selector. Something I tried at first - I tried calling requestThumbnailImagesAtTimes inside the notification selector for MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification - something that won't work. I think because the notification won't fire.