iphone - force MPMoviePlayerController to play video in landscape mode

Question

I have an app that is portrait mode only, but when the user plays a video I want it to play in fullscreen landscape mode (the video player doesn\'t look good in portrait mod

Answer 1

I use the following code to work with ONLY LANDSCAPE mode for Movieplayer.

NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.mp4"];  // sample url
MPMoviePlayerViewController *movieController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];

// Logic for play movie in landscape
CGAffineTransform landscapeTransform;
landscapeTransform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(90*M_PI/180.0f);
landscapeTransform = CGAffineTransformTranslate(landscapeTransform, 80, 80);
[movieController.moviePlayer.view setTransform: landscapeTransform];

[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:movieController];
[movieController.moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
[movieController.moviePlayer play];