Play Movie file in Portrait mode by MPMovieplayer

[smsawant]

Hi,

I want to play video file from MPMovieplayer but in a portrait mode.
I am doing this by using following method.

[moviePlayer setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait animated:YES];

but i have fear that this method is undocumented and app may get rejected because of this method,but in documentation I have not found anything which says video will run only in landscape mode.

Have any one faced same problem?is their any other method by which we can change its orientation?

Thanks in advance
Sanket

[Oliver Drobnik]

Originally Posted by smsawant

Hi,

I want to play video file from MPMovieplayer but in a portrait mode.
I am doing this by using following method.

[moviePlayer setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait animated:YES];

but i have fear that this method is undocumented and app may get rejected because of this method,but in documentation I have not found anything which says video will run only in landscape mode.

Have any one faced same problem?is their any other method by which we can change its orientation?

Thanks in advance
Sanket

From the docs: Behavior in iPhone OS 3.1 and Earlier
In iPhone OS 3.1 and earlier, this class implemented a full-screen movie player only. After creating the movie player and initializing it with a single movie file, you called the play method to present the movie. (The definition of the play method has since moved out of this class and into the MPMediaPlayback protocol.) The movie player object itself handled the actual presentation of the movie content.


Full-Screen implies landscape, because videos are usually more wide than high. So on 3.1 and earlier that's how it is. When 3.2 will be released you have more options.

[wuf810]

Originally Posted by smsawant

Hi,

I want to play video file from MPMovieplayer but in a portrait mode.

but i have fear that this method is undocumented and app may get rejected because of this method,Sanket

You can embed the movie in a web view to play it portrait. Doing it with undocumented APIs will get your app rejected.

[tawpie]

Originally Posted by wuf810

You can embed the movie in a web view to play it portrait. Doing it with undocumented APIs will get your app rejected.

and setOrientation (personal experience) will get it rejected. The bot catches it.