How to get an error description when playback fails on MPMoviePlayerController

Question

I want to show an UIAlert if the Video-Play fails. So i registered the MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification for my Movie Player:

Answer 1

You can look at the value behind the userinfo dictionary's MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishReasonUserInfoKey. If the value is MPMovieFinishReasonPlaybackError, you can assume that some stuff went wrong. This method is pretty durn dependable.