XCode 4 Tutorial Playing Videos

Playing Videos

In this tutorial i will be showing you how to play video files in your apps

Features:

• 1 Round Rect Button 
• 1 Video Files

Playing videos in your application can give so much more information than a standard pages of text take youtube for example users are able to share and express information in a way a written page cannot 

ViewController.h

#import <MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.h>

@interface ViewController :UIViewController {

}

-(IBAction)playvideo;

@end

ViewController.m

@implementation ViewController

-(IBAction)playvideo {

NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle]
    pathForResource:@"Video1" ofType:@"mp4"]];

MPMoviePlayerViewController *playercontroller = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc]
    initWithContentURL:url];

    [self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:playercontroller];

    playercontroller.moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;

    [playercontroller.moviePlayer play];

    [playercontroller release];

    playercontroller = nil;

}

@end