MPMoviePlayerViewController | Allow landscape mode

Question

I'm trying to stream a video in my app. The method I've found is :

NSURL *theMovieURL = [NSURL URLWithString:self.data.trailer];
        if (theMovieURL)
        {
            self.movieController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:theMovieURL];
            [self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:self.movieController];
            [self.movieController.moviePlayer play];
        }

I'm not sure if it's the most conventional, but it works.

The problem is that I can't figure out how to allow the landscape mode, for the video only. Should I use something like shouldAutorotate or shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation , and how ?

FYI, the entire app allows only the portrait mode.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

shouldAutoRotate is deprecated as of iOS 6 and should be avoided unless you're going for < 6 .

Instead, you'd want to override the supportedInterfaceOrientations and preferredInterfaceOrientationForPresentation methods.

In this case, if you don't want to subclass the media player you could override a method in the app delegate like so:

- (NSUInteger) application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{
    if ([[self.window.rootViewController presentedViewController] isKindOfClass:[MPMoviePlayerViewController class]])
    {
        return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAllButUpsideDown;
    }
    else
    {
        return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
    }
}