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POPossible to view an MPMoviePlayerController within a UICollectionView?
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copied!<p>I'm trying to build a UICollectionView in which each cell holds an MPMoviePlayerController with a different video. I want the user to be able to play each video in place.</p> <p>I know that you can't play multiple instances of an MPMoviePlayerController. What's vague about Apple's documentation is whether or not you can instantiate and place them in views - the way I read it, you actually CAN do that. However, I couldn't get that to work so I finally gave up and tried a different technique.</p> <p>Instead, I tried using a select event to instantiate, place, and automatically play the video within the collection cell. As a control, I placed an additional view outside of the collection view, within the same UIViewController. When I ran it, the outside view loaded up just fine - the video instantiated and the first frame appeared. And all the cells in the collection view appeared correctly, as well. However, when I selected one of the collection cells, the video in the outside view disappeared entirely while the video in the collection view instantiated but failed to appear. I know it instantiated because I color-coded the background of each of the views and on selecting the cell, the background for the video appeared, but the actual video did not. Very confusing.</p> <p>So I'm wondering if you can even put a video within a collection view at all?</p> <p>Here's the code for the view controller:</p> <pre><code>#import "testViewController.h" #import <MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.h> #import "tvCollectionCell.h" @interface testViewController () @property (strong) IBOutlet UIView *containerView; @property (strong) MPMoviePlayerController *videoPlayer; @end @implementation testViewController - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib. } - (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning { [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated. } - (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated { self.videoPlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL: [NSURL fileURLWithPath: [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"testvideo" ofType:@"mp4"]]]; CGRect videoFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.containerView.frame.size.width, self.containerView.frame.size.height); [[self.videoPlayer view] setFrame:videoFrame]; self.videoPlayer.shouldAutoplay = FALSE; self.videoPlayer.repeatMode = TRUE; [self.videoPlayer prepareToPlay]; [self.videoPlayer view].backgroundColor = [UIColor orangeColor]; [self.containerView addSubview:[self.videoPlayer view]]; } - (NSInteger)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:(NSInteger)section { return 10; } - (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInCollectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView { return 1; } - (UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { tvCollectionCell *tvCell = [collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"tvCell" forIndexPath:indexPath]; tvCell.backgroundColor = [UIColor purpleColor]; return tvCell; } - (void)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView didSelectItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { tvCollectionCell *tvCell = (tvCollectionCell *)[collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:indexPath]; MPMoviePlayerController *movie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL: [NSURL fileURLWithPath: [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"testvideo" ofType:@"mp4"]]]; CGRect videoFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, tvCell.frame.size.width, tvCell.frame.size.height); [[movie view] setFrame:videoFrame]; movie.shouldAutoplay = TRUE; movie.repeatMode = TRUE; [movie prepareToPlay]; [movie view].backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor]; [tvCell addSubview:[movie view]]; } @end </code></pre> <p>Thanks for the help!</p>

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