How to tell a message sent to the MPMediaPlayer has timed out?

Question

I've been working with the MPMediaPlayer framework for the 3.0 SDK. Sometimes the Media Player is slow to respond, or doesn't respond at all. I get warning messages in the console, but the user will never see these messages (and thus blame my app for the timeouts).

Is there a way to recover from these timeouts? Can I set things to NOT retry also?

Answer 1

Does your app register to receive notifications from the MPMediaPlayer? I haven't seen these timeouts, so I don't know if they return the MPMoviePlayerContentPreloadDidFinishNotification with the userInfo filled with your error.

From MPMoviePlayerController.h:

MP_EXTERN NSString *const MPMoviePlayerContentPreloadDidFinishNotification; // userInfo contains NSError for @"error" key if preloading fails

From the MoviePlayer sample code:

// Register to receive a notification that the movie is now in memory and ready to play
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
     selector:@selector(moviePreloadDidFinish:) 
     name:MPMoviePlayerContentPreloadDidFinishNotification 
     object:nil];

// Register to receive a notification when the movie has finished playing. 
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
    selector:@selector(moviePlayBackDidFinish:) 
    name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification 
    object:nil];

// Register to receive a notification when the movie scaling mode has changed. 
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
    selector:@selector(movieScalingModeDidChange:) 
    name:MPMoviePlayerScalingModeDidChangeNotification 
    object:nil];