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rashii
rashii

Reputation: 500

How to play a NSData in video player

I have written an async call to download a video of mp4 format. The response result is an NSData. How can I open the NSData in any video player framework which should be supported in IOS 3.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8745

Answers (2)

Krishna Kirana
Krishna Kirana

Reputation: 478

It's not possible to directly play the NSData into AVPlayer. What you can do is download the Data into Document folder and later fetch the file path and give that path to AVPlayer.

Upvotes: 1

jmstone617
jmstone617

Reputation: 5707

An NSData is basically a container object, and thus not in a format you can play in a video player. Without seeing any code, or the results of your data, you can create an NSString from data with

NSString *dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

Now that you have a string, you can create an NSURL with

NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL URLWithString:dataString];

From there, you should be able to pass this into an MPMoviePlayerController with

MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];

Upvotes: 2

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