MPMoviePlayerController is functioning wrong

Question

When i tried a video saved on the Xcode project , it worked. then when i changed it with a url , it always returns this error :

 _itemFailedToPlayToEnd: {
kind = 1;
new = 2;
old = 0;

}

Here's my code :

 NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNAeGWd_04"];

movieController = [[MoviePlayerVC alloc]initWithContentURL:url];
movieController.view.frame = self.view.bounds;
[movieController.moviePlayer setShouldAutoplay:YES];

[movieController.moviePlayer setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen];
[[movieController view] setTransform:CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI / 2)];
[self presentViewController:movieController animated:NO completion:nil];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                         selector:@selector(playbackStateDidChange:)
                                             name:@"MPAVControllerPlaybackStateChangedNotification"
                                           object:nil];

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '14 at 13:00

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fileURLWithPath: expects a local path url - /User/blah/blah.mp3

Try to use [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNAeGWd_04"]

answered Jun 10 '14 at 13:00

Nimrod Gutman

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actually quellish is correct, you can't play youtube videos in MPMoviePlayer... check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1779511/play-youtube-videos-with-mpmovieplayercontroller-instead-of-uiwebview for reference – Nimrod Gutman Jun 11 '14 at 09:05

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 10 '14 at 13:04

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IF YOU PLAY FROM URL THEN TRY THIS

-(void)playFromLiveUrl
{

        NSURL *aUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"*YOUR URL*"];
        _moviePlayer =  [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]initWithContentURL:aUrl];
        _moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
        _moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
        _moviePlayer.view.frame = asyvideoImage.frame;
        _moviePlayer.scalingMode=MPMovieScalingModeFill;
        [self.view addsubview _moviePlayer.view];
        [_moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
        [_moviePlayer setFullscreen:NO animated:NO];

}

IF YOU ARE USE LOCAL FILE THEN USE THIS

-(void)playFromLocal
{

        _moviePlayer =  [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:@"** LOCAL PATH ** "]];
        _moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
        _moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
        _moviePlayer.view.frame = asyvideoImage.frame;
        _moviePlayer.scalingMode=MPMovieScalingModeFill;
        [self.view addsubview _moviePlayer.view];
        [_moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
        [_moviePlayer setFullscreen:NO animated:NO];

}

answered Jun 10 '14 at 13:04

Mitul Bhadeshiya

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it open black screen only. – Iman Jun 10 '14 at 13:13
yes i added this URL "https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNAeGWd_04"and i changed the "asyvideoImage.frame" to CGRectmake(0,0,320,548) – Iman Jun 10 '14 at 13:15
if you want to play video from the youtube URL then you have to find some custom class to play video from youtube URL – Mitul Bhadeshiya Jun 10 '14 at 13:17
Actually its a url from sever , but i replaced it with youtube as i found that no urls are working with the code :( – Iman Jun 10 '14 at 13:19
please check the below link you can get something from that 1)http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1779511/play-youtube-videos-with-mpmovieplayercontroller-instead-of-uiwebview 2) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6911171/mpmovieplayercontroller-is-playing-youtube-video – Mitul Bhadeshiya Jun 10 '14 at 13:21

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

The MPMoviewPlayerController Can't get your format. U r try to load the MPMoviePlayerController with youTube link, it won't work (as u can see :)

Here u can find the iPhone video format support.

Try to load your MoviePlayer something like this (for example .m3u8 format):

[movieController setContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/gear1/prog_index.m3u8"]];

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 11 '14 at 07:15

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MPMoviePlayerController cannot play a Flash Youtube URL. Use a web view instead. UIWebView on iOS is smart enough play youtube content.

You can see the video formats MPMoviePlayer and AVFoundation support here

answered Jun 11 '14 at 07:15

quellish

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MPMoviePlayerController is functioning wrong

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