Why is it not possible to use the MPMoviePlayerController more than once?

Question

In MonoTouch, we ran into this problem with the Movie Player sample in that it would only play the video once, but would not play it a second time.

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Answer 1

Can't see your code Nir and I don't have edit privileges so here it is again:

The secret lays in the endPlay with setting the: moviePlayer.initialPlaybackTime = -1; before releasing it. Try it out : :)

-(void)playMovie:(NSString *)urlString{ movieURL = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];          
moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];    
moviePlayer.initialPlaybackTime = 0; 
//Register to receive a notification when the movie has finished playing. 
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(endPlay:) name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:moviePlayer];

moviePlayer.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFit; 
moviePlayer.movieControlMode = MPMovieControlModeDefault;
moviePlayer.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];

[moviePlayer play];

}

-(void)endPlay: (NSNotification*)notification{
 [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:moviePlayer]; 
moviePlayer.initialPlaybackTime = -1; 
[moviePlayer stop]; 
[moviePlayer release]; 
}