MPMoviePlayerController fullscreen quirk in iPad

Question

I want to show a MPMoviePlayerController in a view controller and let the user toggle full screen with the default controls, like the YouTube app. I\'m using the following c

Answer 1

Had the same problem, just spent half a day sorting it out. With the iPad in portrait orientation, whenever I started a video using the sample code (or any I could find on the net) the video and control bar were formatted for portrait, and hence all over the place on the screen.

Anyway, the following works for me.

  /* Call the code like below:
        int iLandscape;
        if( newOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || newOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight )
             iLandscape=1;

        [self PlayVideo:iLandscape fullscreen:1]
    */
        //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
        - (void)PlayVideo:(int)iLandscape fullscreen:(int)iFullScreen 
        {
            NSString *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"myvideofile" ofType:@"m4v"];

        if( iFullScreen==0 )
        {
            MPMoviePlayerController *player2 = 
                [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] 
                    initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:url]];

            [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] 
                addObserver:self
                   selector:@selector(movieFinishedCallback:)
                       name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
                     object:player2];

            //---play partial screen---
            player2.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, m_iScreenWidth, m_iScreenHeight);
            [self addSubview:player2.view];
            //---play movie---
            [player2 play];
        }   
        else
        {
            MPMoviePlayerViewController *playerViewController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] 
                initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:url]];

            [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] 
                addObserver:self
                   selector:@selector(movieFinishedCallback:)
                       name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
                     object:[playerViewController moviePlayer]];

            if( iLandscape )
            {
                playerViewController.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, m_iScreenWidth, m_iScreenHeight);
            }
            [self addSubview:playerViewController.view];
            //play movie
            MPMoviePlayerController *player = [playerViewController moviePlayer];
            player.scalingMode=MPMovieScalingModeAspectFit;
            [player play];
        }
    }


    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    - (void) movieFinishedCallback:(NSNotification*) aNotification 
    {
        MPMoviePlayerController *player = [aNotification object];
        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:player];    
        [player autorelease];    
        [player.view removeFromSuperview];
    }

Answer 2

are you using interface builder for your UI? if so make sure you set the view's orientation to 'landscape' in the view attributes inspector.

Answer 3

Did you solve this issue?

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait animated:NO];

This code might help you.

Answer 4

Yeah, I'm experiencing this problem as well. It definitely appears to be a bug in the MPMoviePlayerController itself.

The workaround I've settled on in my application is to just correct the status bar myself when I exit fullscreen mode:

- (void)playerDidExitFullscreen:(NSNotification *)notification {
    MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer = (MPMoviePlayerController *) notification.object;

    if (moviePlayer == self.player) {
        UIApplication *app = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
        if (app.statusBarOrientation != self.interfaceOrientation) {
            [app setStatusBarOrientation:self.interfaceOrientation animated:NO];
        }
    }
}

This doesn't fix the problem while in fullscreen mode, but it does fix it afterwards.

Note of course that the function needs to be added to the notification:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(playerDidExitFullscreen:) name:MPMoviePlayerDidExitFullscreenNotification object:nil];

Answer 5

Try this

 - (void)willEnterFullscreen:(NSNotification*)notification {
     NSLog(@"willEnterFullscreen");

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight animated:NO];
  }

 - (void)enteredFullscreen:(NSNotification*)notification {
     NSLog(@"enteredFullscreen");
 }

- (void)willExitFullscreen:(NSNotification*)notification {
    NSLog(@"willExitFullscreen");

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait animated:NO];


}

- (void)exitedFullscreen:(NSNotification*)notification {
    NSLog(@"exitedFullscreen");

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
}

Answer 6

Is shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:interfaceOrientation returning YES for all of the supported orientations?

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
    return YES;
}

If you provided more of your code it would help.