[iPhone] Play video not in full screen mode

Question

Hello,

First, excuse my english :)

I've read on apple developer website that video playback provides by the framework supports only full screen mode.

I will need to develop an application where video can be played in reduce screen mode. I've see that Orange TV make something which looks like what i need to do.

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1228/tvplayerorange.jpg

The application is available on app store but you need to have a subscription to test this application. Whatever, to resume it, we can see video (tv stream video) in a reduce mode and if we click on the screen it switch to a full screen mode.

So my question, what i want to do is possible (Orange TV made it) but i wonder the difficulty to make it. It seems that I have to make a video player. If it take a bunch of time, I tkink I will use Media Player Framework of iPhone even isn't the optimal solution for me.

Feel free to ask me more details ;)

Thank you for your answers.

Answer 1

It is not possible to use the built in media framework to display windowed video. You would have to port another codec and streaming library to iPhone to achieve this.

Answer 2

Looking at the MPMoviePlayerController class dump here, you can see these public members:

-(BOOL) isFullscreen;  
-(void) setFullscreen:(BOOL)fp8;

So there is a tiny chance to show a movie in windowed mode. However, these members are not officialy available and may have unexpected behaviour. This is just a hint, I haven't done it myself. Beware that using undocumented APIs may make Apple reject your application from the AppStore.

Answer 3

Hello,

I am also trying to show the video as a small part of the view where I can show some text below the playing video. Is there any success for iPad ?

Please help!!

Thanks.