MPMoviePlayer Orientation

Question

I am playing MP3 audio via a URL using the MPMoviePlayer. But when it plays, it flips to Landscape layout, and I would like it to remain in portrait layout.

Any ideas?

Thanks, John

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the movie player can only play movies in Landscape. You'll have to reencode your movies rotated to 480x320 instead of 320x480. After you play the movie, it changes the status bar's orientation, so you need to flip that back with setStatusBarOrientation:animated::

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarOrientation:UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait animated:NO];

Answer 2

You could use an ugly hack and place it in a UIWebView, but this functionality really should be in MPMoviePlayer.