iPhone SDK:How do you play video inside a view? Rather than fullscreen

Question

I am trying to play video inside a UIView, so my first step was to add a class for that view and start playing a movie in it using this code:

- (IBAction)movie:(id)sender{     NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];         NSString *moviePath = [bundle pathForResource:@"Movie" ofType:@"m4v"];     NSURL *movieURL = [[NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath] retain];     MPMoviePlayerController *theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];     theMovie.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;     [theMovie play]; } 

But this just crashes the app when using this method inside it's own class, but is fine elsewhere. Does anyone know how to play video inside a view? and avoid it being full screen?

Answer 1

As of the 3.2 SDK you can access the view property of MPMoviePlayerController, modify its frame and add it to your view hierarchy.

MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:url]]; player.view.frame = CGRectMake(184, 200, 400, 300); [self.view addSubview:player.view]; [player play]; 

There's an example here: http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/44642/1954