How to play movie files with no file extension on iOS with MPMoviePlayerController or AVPlayer?

Question

I want to play a movie in iOS 4.3 on the iPad. I\'ve successfully used MPMoviePlayerController and AVPlayer to load files from a remote URL when the filename has a file exte

Answer 1

Dylan is correct.

Both MPMoviePlayer and AVPlayer needs a file extension in order to play the file from URL otherwise an error message will be shown. Better to use some kind of tricks.