How to stop MPMoviePlayerViewController's automatic dismiss on moviePlaybackDidFinish?

Question

An MPMoviePlayerViewController which is presented modally through presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated: automatically dismisses itself when it\'s content fi

Answer 1

You can use this code to stop the viewcontroller from automatically dismissing and capture the event when the user clicks the "Done" button so you can dismiss the viewcontroller yourself.

Step 1. - alloc a MPMoviePlayerViewController

videoPlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:[[NSURL alloc ]initWithString:[aURL];

Step 2. - Remove the default MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification observer and add your own

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:videoPlayer
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:videoPlayer.moviePlayer];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
selector:@selector(videoFinished:) name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:videoPlayer.moviePlayer];

Step 3. - Present viewcontroler

[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:videoPlayer];

Step 4. - Add videoFinish: method

-(void)videoFinished:(NSNotification*)aNotification{
    int value = [[aNotification.userInfo valueForKey:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishReasonUserInfoKey] intValue];
    if (value == MPMovieFinishReasonUserExited) {
        [self dismissMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated];
    }
}