An AVPlayerItem can occupy only one position in a player's queue at a time

Question

Im getting this error when trying to play a video from my temp directory:

NSString *tmpDir = [NSTemporaryDirectory() stringByAppendingString:@"/"];
NSString *url = [tmpDir stringByAppendingString:videoToPlay];

MPMoviePlayerController *player =
[[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]
 initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:url]];

Why am i getting this error "An AVPlayerItem can occupy only one position in a player's queue at a time."

Isnt that code correct? Am i missing something simple?

Answer 1

I tried various solutions provided in apple dev forums. In my case what worked was just changing the source type from streaming to unknown:

// player.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeStreaming;

  player.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeUnknown;

Answer 2

Use following statement to avoid such error. Please keep in mind that, THE sdk that you are using is under NDA.

[self.mPlayer.moviePlayer setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleDefault];