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Reputation: 3

MPMoviePlayerController restarting instead of resuming

I am trying to have MPMoviePlayerController reach a programmed endPlaybackTime, then reassign the initial, current, and end times and "resume" play

So first play, say, from the start to 4 seconds, stop/pause, then resume and play from 4 to 8, etc...

but after I reassign current, initial, and endPlaybackTimes and run [mplayer play], the video restarts from the originally times (start to 4s) and plays to the original end time, even though debug messages confirm the new times after the second play

NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filepath];
_mplayer3 = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
_mplayer3.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
[_mplayer3.view setFrame: self.view.bounds];
[self.view insertSubview:_mplayer3.view belowSubview:_TopBrag];
_mplayer3.endPlaybackTime = 4.0;
[_mplayer3 setShouldAutoplay:NO];
[_mplayer3 prepareToPlay];
[_mplayer3 view].userInteractionEnabled=YES;
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(parallaxDownDidFinish)
                                                 name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
                                               object:_mplayer3];
[_mplayer3 play];

on the end notification, there's a gesture recognizer is created that appears to work correctly. in the gesture recognizer:

_mplayer3.initialPlaybackTime=_mplayer3.endPlaybackTime;
_mplayer3.currentPlaybackTime=_mplayer3.endPlaybackTime;
_mplayer3.endPlaybackTime+=4.0;
if (_mplayer3.endPlaybackTime > _mplayer3.duration)
    _mplayer3.endPlaybackTime = _mplayer3.duration;
[_mplayer3 play]

and the video plays from 0 to 4 instead of 4 to 8, even though NSLogs after the play suggest the times are what's desired

appreciate any help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1104

Answers (2)

Till
Till

Reputation: 27597

MPMoviePlayerController does not adhere to the initialPlaybackTime if not used on a fresh instance. You will need to release and realloc/assign the player to get this working. All you need to do is to reuse the initial code shown in your question once the player aught to continue.

Update:

Since you seem to be keen on keeping the player view active and as you are not using the standard user interface, I would suggest you to use AVPlayer instead. It is much more flexible and for your job it seems to be the right choice then.

Upvotes: 1

Calleth 'Zion'
Calleth 'Zion'

Reputation: 613

I'm not sure whats the problem, because it should work, the problem i think is that you are in IOS 6, IOS 6 doesn't let you make such a small change, but if in your swipe you change the initial playtime to 9 or higher it should work....

try it and then let me know ;)

Upvotes: 0

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