MPMoviePlayerController multitasking problem

Question

I develop an application on iphone that uses MPMoviePlayerController to play audio file. When Application goes to background, if mpmovieplayer is playing, iphone continues t

Answer 1

You should read the Technical Q&A QA1668: How to play audio in the background with MPMoviePlayerController.

Summary of the steps needed:

• declare that your application supports background execution for audio
• assign an appropriate category to your audio session (default category is not ok)

Answer 2

may be you forget to add this in

 - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
     {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents];
   }

Answer 3

I got it working by putting following two lines in Delegate file:

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error:nil];
[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive: YES error: nil];