MPMoviePlayerController initialPlaybackTime property not working in iOS 8.4

Question

After setting initialPlaybackTime property, the video(HTTP streaming) still plays from the beginning.

The same code works well in iOS <= 8.3:

 self.moviePlayer.initialPlaybackTime = self.lastPlaybackTime;
[self.moviePlayer play];

Answer 1

This works for me, basically you need to setCurrentPlaybackTime when the movie starts playing, But you also need a flag playbackDurationSet which is set to NO when you present movieplayer and it is set to YES when the movie is seeked to the playbackDuration for the first time.

NOTE: this flag is required because when you seek the movie from the seek scrubber the moviePlayerPlaybackStateChanged is fired with playbackState of MPMoviePlaybackStatePlaying.

BOOL playbackDurationSet = NO;
- (void)moviePlayerPlaybackStateChanged:(NSNotification*)notification
{
    MPMoviePlayerController* player = (MPMoviePlayerController*)notification.object;
    switch ( player.playbackState ) {
        case MPMoviePlaybackStatePlaying:
        if(!playbackDurationSet){
           [self.moviePlayer setCurrentPlaybackTime:yourStartTime];
           playbackDurationSet = YES;
        }
        break;
    }
}

- (void)moviePlayerPresented
{
      playbackDurationSet = NO;
}