MPMoviePlayerController alternatives on iPhone?

Question

I am looking for alternatives to the MPMoviePlayerController on the iPhone. As a video player its functionality is very limited. According to the class reference there is no way

Answer 1

You could use AVPlayer. See the documentation

You can then get the current playback time with currentTime and seek to a specified time with seekToTime:.

You have to direct the visual output of an AVPlayer instance to an AVPlayerLayer object (subclass of CALayer). See the first listing here.