MPMoviePlayerController seek forward in fullscreen mode until end is stuck

Question

There seems to be a problem with the MPMoviePlayerController where once you\'re in fullscreen mode and you hold down the fast forward button, letting it seek forward (playin

Answer 1

It seems it's an iOS bug since fast backward to the very beginning won't cause the black screen but fast forward to the end will, and after that the 'play'/'pause' call to the video player never works. I temporarily fix this by adding protected logic into the scrubber refresh callback: let's assume that monitorPlaybackTime will be called in 'PLAY_BACK_TIME_MONITOR_INTERVAL' seconds period to refresh the scrubber, and in it I add a check logic:

NSTimeInterval duration = self.moviePlayer.duration;
NSTimeInterval current = self.moviePlayer.currentPlaybackTime;

if (isnan(current) || current > duration) {
    current = duration;
} else if (self.moviePlayer.playbackState == MPMoviePlaybackStateSeekingForward) {
    if (current + self.moviePlayer.currentPlaybackRate*PLAY_BACK_TIME_MONITOR_INTERVAL > duration) {
        [self.moviePlayer endSeeking];
    }
}

A workaround to solve the black screen, not perfect, hope it can help.