Cannot get the MPMoviePlayerViewController to play my media file

Question

Having some issues getting this MPMoviePlayerViewController to work. I have two sample URLs pointing to the same Quicktime movie. The commented out URL doesn\'t work; the othe

Answer 1

Thanks for posting your answer. I had the same error with my MPMoviePlayerViewController, and my problem was fixed too when I added support for Range Requests to my php mp4 file streamer. Streaming media to the iPHone requires some specific headers, else you get the "The server is not correctly configured" error.

I found some great hints for php Range Requests support here: fread, (PHP 4, PHP 5), fread — Binary-safe file read

Answer 2

Yay I finally got this to work! The reason it was not working was because my WCF services didn't support Range Requests. Apparently iPhone Movie streaming requires range requests.

I changed my implementation to make direct requests to the Azure blob storage via SAS URLs. Works so far!