iPhone SDK Tutorial: Play Video/Movie in App

Hey guys, in this tutorial I am going to show you how to play a video or movie inside of the app with a touch of a button.

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[sports24man]

can you do a quick vid on how to put the picture next of the app

[rybread421]

@sports24man im not sure as to what you mean by this....do you mean an icon? or what?

[xenonaxel007]

@jamescmartinez

I'm sorry but what do you mean by remove the breakpoint?

[jamescmartinez]

@xenonaxel007 Remove the breakpoint. 

[xenonaxel007]

stopped at breakpoint 1 NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle]; what do i do

[yannicksnotterbel]

@sports24man easy, first drag a picture into your project, then go to your .plist and type the name of your picture next to "icon file".

[garyramu1]

@fdardari

That works with iOS 4.3 although when copying and pasting out of your post--looks like a hidden character carried over on line starting with NSURL. Typed it in fresh, worked.

[JNArthur13]

@ifraz22 The same occurred when I tried it in Xcode 4. Does anyone know why?

[ifraz22]

i'm trying this on xcode version 4.. i can hear the sound of the video only.... do u know why its not working properly?

[MarkRocchio]

Great Videos! Could you do a video on playing multiple videos for xcode 3.2? I've tried to resolve all the warnings etc. No dice. I've done single video for x3.2  with NSString *path and using the MPMoviePlayerViewController but when I try to duplicate the code for a second video, it goes down in flames. Again, thanks for the great videos.

[SerenityInTurmoil]

@fdardari Check your source, there's a few control characters that slipped in:

"moviePath = [bundle" => Zero-width breaking space

"moviePlayer.scalingMo" => Soft Hyphen

"presentMoviePlayerViewControl­l" => Soft Hyphen

They're not technically "control characters", so they didn't show up in XCode when I toggled "Show Control Characters". Took me a while to pick them out. Just highlighting this in case anybody else has gotten a compile error of "Stray \357 in program" like I did.

[fdardari]

Try this: NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle]; NSString *moviePath = [bundle pathForResource:@"rimini" ofType:@"m4v"]; NSURL *movieURL = [[NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath] retain]; MPMoviePlayerViewController *theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL]; theMovie.moviePlayer.scalingMo­de = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill; [self presentMoviePlayerViewControll­erAnimated: theMovie]; [theMovie.moviePlayer play];