How to play a video in iPhone simulator - ios-simulator

Question

I want to play a video in the iPhone simulator. I have tried with MPMoviePlayerViewController, but its not playing. Anybody has an idea on how to do it ? If there is any good tutorial , please help me find one. Thanx.
NOTE: Question related to MPMoviePlayerViewController not MPMoviePlayerController

Answer 1

Just drag and drop the video file in Your Xcode project
Give the url of video in "videourl"
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:videourl];
MPMoviePlayerViewController *moviePlayer1 = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc]initWithContentURL:url];
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:moviePlayer1];
It will run perfectly in simulator
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Answer 2

Assuming ARC.
You can for example call that in your viewDidLoad method and add that controller to your view using:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSString *moviePath = [bundle pathForResource:#"test" ofType:#"m4v"];
NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath];
MPMoviePlayerController *theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];
theMovie.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
[theMovie play];
[self.view addSubview:theMovie.view];
[self addChildViewController:theMovie];
}

Answer 3

in my header file I write:
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer;
with this property:
#property(nonatomic, strong) MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer;
and in the method in which I init the moviePlayer:
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieUrl];
self.moviePlayer = player;

Answer 4

Use the following code
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer1 = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]
initWithContentURL:yourVideoURL];
moviePlayer1.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 110);
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayer1.view];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]addObserver:self
selector:#selector(movieFinishedCallback:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:moviePlayer1];
[moviePlayer1 play];