Adding an MPMoviePlayerController in full screen mode?

Question

I have a UIButton in my iPhone app that, when clicked, plays a movie. The code to play the movie looks like this:

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Answer 1

Assuming that self.view is using the entire screen:

NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"Robot" withExtension:@"m4v"];
moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen;
moviePlayer.view.transform = CGAffineTransformConcat(moviePlayer.view.transform, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI_2));
[moviePlayer.view setFrame: self.view.bounds];
[self.view addSubview: moviePlayer.view];
[moviePlayer play];

Now assuming that you basically dont want to use the current self.view but simply have it working in fullscreen (I call this; fake-fullscreen as it does not invoke the fullscreen-property);

NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"Robot" withExtension:@"m4v"];
moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen;
moviePlayer.view.transform = CGAffineTransformConcat(moviePlayer.view.transform, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI_2));
UIWindow *backgroundWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
[moviePlayer.view setFrame:backgroundWindow.frame];
[backgroundWindow addSubview:moviePlayer.view];
[moviePlayer play];

Answer 2

I think the best way to resolve it is using the MPMoviePlayerViewController instead of the MPMoviePlayerController.

The MPMoviePlayerViewController class implements a simple view controller for displaying full-screen movies. Unlike using an MPMoviePlayerController object on its own to present a movie immediately, you can incorporate a movie player view-controller wherever you would normally use a view-controller.

To present a movie player view controller modally, you typically use the presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated: method. This method is part of a category on the UIViewController class and is implemented by the Media Player framework. The presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated: method presents a movie player view controller using the standard transition animations for presenting video content. To dismiss a modally presented movie player view controller, call the dismissMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated method.