MPMoviePlayerController doesn't play newly saved video file
ios, iphone, mpmovieplayercontroller, uiimagepickercontroller, video
Solution
Ok I finally found the issue. The problem was not in fact with the MPMoviePlayerController but with the line:
[self.moviePlayer setContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:newPath]];
I fixed it by replacing that line with:
[self.moviePlayer setContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:newPath isDirectory:NO]];
Hope that will help someone else!
Problem
I'm using an imagePickerController to record video. In the `imagePickerController:didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:` function I'm trying to set the video to a previously defined MPMoviePlayerController: ``` if ([mediaType isEqualToString:(NSString *)kUTTypeMovie]){ NSURL *movieUrl = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaURL]; [self.moviePlayer setContentURL:movieUrl]]; } ``` This is working fine and the video is indeed playing. But I want to save the file for later use. When I do this and use the saved file for the moviePlayer, nothing happens: I've tried this (saving the data to a new file) ``` NSString *directory = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0]; NSString *newPath = [directory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"myMovie.mov"]; NSData *videoData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:movieUrl]; [videoData writeToFile:newPath atomically:NO]; [self.moviePlayer setContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:newPath]]; ``` or this (copying the temp video file to my document folder) ``` NSString *directory = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0]; NSString *newPath = [directory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"myMovie.mov"]; NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; NSError *error = nil; [fileManager copyItemAtPath:[videoUrl path] toPath:newPath error:&error]; [self.moviePlayer setContentURL:[NSURL URLWithString:newPath]]; ``` Without any success, even though the file at `newPath` does exist... What am I doing wrong?