MPMoviePlayerController overlay

Question

Hi,

I'm loading video from external URL in my iphone app. This loading takes few minutes as the control downloads the video. While the video is being downloaded, I would like to display a small snapshot of the video (separate png file) on top of the media player control. This would be similar to the youtube app which displays a snapshot while video is downloading and the snapshot goes off when playback starts.

Any hints as how this can be achieved?

regards, D2

Answer 1

Just create a new UIImageView with your png, and [moveiPLayerController.view addSubview:myPNGImgView]; to display it. When the movie is loaded, then do a -removeSubview.