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iOS Video in UIView ?

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ifreeman

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Mar 3, 2011
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Hi,


I would like to know if I can play a video in UIView?


I want to play a video in a small UIView (say 100 x 100 ) which should be played automatically when the UIView loads

First I would say what I tried out ... It would be really helpful if the experts ( I am a 2 week old baby in IOS development & Obj- C) to confirm whether the route i am heading is right..


I created a UIWebView and and tried to embed a video in it using HTML video tag (html5)
For the UIWebview i set the allowInlineMediaPlayback to YES and mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction to NO ... also in the HTML code, for the video tag, i used - webkit-playsinline


any help is much appreciated
 
ifreeman said:
Hi,


I would like to know if I can play a video in UIView?


I want to play a video in a small UIView (say 100 x 100 ) which should be played automatically when the UIView loads

First I would say what I tried out ... It would be really helpful if the experts ( I am a 2 week old baby in IOS development & Obj- C) to confirm whether the route i am heading is right..


I created a UIWebView and and tried to embed a video in it using HTML video tag (html5)
For the UIWebview i set the allowInlineMediaPlayback to YES and mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction to NO ... also in the HTML code, for the video tag, i used - webkit-playsinline


any help is much appreciated
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and here is the piece of code that i'm using -


NSString *embedHTML = @"\
<!DOCTYPE HTML>\
<html>\
<head>\
<script type=\"text/javascript\">\
function playvideo() {\
var myVideo=document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0];\
myVideo.play();\
myVideo.webkitExitFullscreen();\
myVideo.height = 120;\
myVideo.width = 120;\
}\
</script>\
</head>\
<body onLoad = \"playvideo()\" >\
<video id=\"player\" webkit-playsinline width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\
<source src=\"file:///Users/Shilpa/Desktop/Movie Player/MoviePlayer-ios4-Next/Movie-1.mp4\"/>\
</video>\
</body>\
</html>";

webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100.0, 170.0, 150.0, 150.0)];
[webView setOpaque:YES];

NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:embedHTML, webView.frame.size.width, webView.frame.size.height];
[webView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];
webView.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = YES;
webView.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = NO;

webView.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(3.14/2);

[moviePlayerWindow addSubview:webView];
 
jnoxx said:
U could also use the standard MPMoviePlayer build in? drag your resources to your project, and badem, works! x)
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Hi Jnoxx,

Thanks for posting .... but I am very much new to iOS and obj-c development ... can you please post it in a little more detailed way for me to understand ....


Basically, i want to play two videos simultaneously ... 1 video in full screen, another video in a small box (UIView or WebView) on top of first video (to be started after few seconds of first video playback)....

I tried to create two instance for MPMoviePlayer ... but when I initialize memory for the second player .... the video playing in the first player is stopped ..... is it a single-ton?

due to this reason, I used UIWebview for the second video playback .....


In summary - this is my issue -

What I need:

2 videos - video A - full screen ... video B small size on top of video A (playback of video B to astart after 10 secs of Video A)


What I get:

As of now - Video A plays in full screen ... after 10 seconds , video B starts, but in full screen mode (i do not want that)


Thanks.
 
I don't think that's possible from the HIG. That 2 video's play on top of each other, u can do multiple video's, in 1 view, since the 4.2 I think. But, not on top of each other, think google is your friend in that case :)
 
jnoxx said:
I don't think that's possible from the HIG. That 2 video's play on top of each other, u can do multiple video's, in 1 view, since the 4.2 I think. But, not on top of each other, think google is your friend in that case :)
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hmmm .... if thats the case , then :( .... thanks (anyway) Jnoxx ! :)

But i was thinking the case of iAD - though i do not have much knowledge about iAD - I know that iAD is used for mobile advertising in iOS....

so my question is , " does iAD support video ads ? "

if it does, then there should be a use case where we run the video ad over some custom developed media player/native player - playing video/ live streaming


isnt that case similar to mine??


so for the feasibility part of my requirement - i need to look more closely into how iAD is functioning ....

if any of u guys have any exp in iAdsection plz help me in .... in the mean time i shall also do my part of research ....


thanks all
 
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