Next/Previous buttons on iPhone MPMoviePlayerController

Question

When using the MPMoviePlayerController, the play button is surrounded with \"Next\" and \"Previous\" buttons.

How do I get notifications when they are clicked? is t

Answer 1

No notifications are generated when the user presses the next/previous buttons (you should file a bug about that), so the only way to solve this without any unapproved view-crawling is to implement your own video overlay view:

MPMoviePlayerController* moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]
    initWithContentURL:someUrl];
moviePlayer.movieControlMode = MPMovieControlModeHidden;
[moviePlayer play];

NSArray* windows = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] windows];
if ([windows count] > 1) {
  UIWindow *moviePlayerWindow = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
  [moviePlayerWindow addSubview:yourCustomOverlayView];
}

Not ideal, but the standard controls are quite easy to re-implement.