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

Question

Hi, 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

You cannot play a video inside a view. It has to be played fullscreen.

Answer 2

Also there is this nice tip:

http://www.nightirion.com/2010/01/scaling-a-movie-on-the-iphone/