Playing a Downloaded Video from the Documents Directory with Cocoa-Touch

Question

I\'m trying to get my app to play a video file that\'s been downloaded to the documents directory. I know the file is getting downloaded, but I can\'t seem to get the file t

Answer 1

Issue will be with this line: NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"%@/piggy.m4v"];

Change that to NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"piggy.m4v"];

Answer 2

This looks like some kind of bug, but you have to set your path like that:

 NSString *vidPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"promo" ofType:@"mp4"];
 NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:vidPath isDirectory:NO]; //THIS IS THE KEY TO GET THIS RUN :) 
 [introPlayer setContentURL:url];