Getting MPMoviePlayerController to play nicely with CCDeviceOrientationLandscape

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Getting MPMoviePlayerController to play nicely with CCDeviceOrientationLandscape

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Started 2 years ago by abitofcode
Latest reply from MandarX

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abitofcode
Moderator
In the AppDelegate I'm setting;
```
[[Director sharedDirector] setDeviceOrientation:CCDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight];
```
The main reason being that I'm trying to prevent the speaker being muffled by the user when using a nearby control. I have a brief bit of video using the MPMoviePlayerController which I have set to show no controls (see below) the issue arises if the user uses the iPhone volume control, during the 3 second video the volume indicator shows upside down.
```
MPMoviePlayerController *mp = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath]];
mp.movieControlMode = MPMovieControlModeHidden;
if (mp)
{
  [ [ NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter ] addObserver: self selector: @selector(movieFinishedCallback:) name: MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object: mp ];
  [mp play];
}
```
Not a show stopper but annoying, I've found a link to make it vertical http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/11/the-joys-of-vertical-audio.html but not rotate it 180 degrees. Is this possible?
Posted 2 years ago #
abitofcode
Moderator

It seems guessing the names of these things sometimes pays off;

[mp setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight animated:NO];

Seems to work :)

edit: setOrientation does throw up a warning but will orientate correctly.

Posted 2 years ago #
Codemattic
Moderator

interesting - good find. Although obviously its a little bit of a risk if its not documented bc it could change in the future - and possibly Apple will reject an app that uses it for using unpublished methods.

Posted 2 years ago #
MandarX
Member

Hi, I didn't undestand how to add the mp view to a cocos2d scene.

is it possible to specify coordinates and scale too?

Posted 1 year ago #
abitofcode
Moderator

Don't think so.

I removed the video before releasing the game in the end as it prevented a user from playing their own music over the top of the game. We were only using it to handle the splash screen which I ended up converting into a sprite sheet and animating.

Posted 1 year ago #
MandarX
Member

OK, I think I will use a sprite animation

thanks

Posted 1 year ago #

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