iphone 3.1 - MPMediaPlayer shows up portrait, not landscape, which is strange…

[angelfilm]

I have a movie file that does work. I added a tableview controller inside a nav controller, inside a tab view controller, and when a user clicks on the table view cell I load the video view. It launches the movie(and rotates in the simulator), but the video doesn't play and the controls are for portrait view. I do hear sound and see time going by in the controls. So it's clearly just not landscape. I tried some tricks to setOrientation, but they had warnings and didn't work properly. Thanks for any help you can give.

@implementation StreamViewController
@synthesize moviePlayer;
@synthesize streamURL;

// Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
    // Return YES for supported orientations
    return YES;
}
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {

    NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
    if (bundle) 
    {
        NSString *moviePath                     = [bundle pathForResource:@"splash" ofType:@"m4v"];
        self.streamURL                          = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath];
    }

    moviePlayer                                 = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[self streamURL]];
    moviePlayer.scalingMode                     = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
    [moviePlayer play]; 
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];

}




- (void)dealloc {
    [super dealloc];
}


@end

[angelfilm]

I guess I was using multiple video players without releasing the first one. Using this helped to keep one MPMoviePlayerController active at all times, but switching it with this approach worked.

	MPMoviePlayerController *mp = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:self.splashURL];
	mp.scalingMode				= MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
	if (mp)
	{
		// save the movie player object
		self.streamMoviePlayer = mp;
		[mp release];
		
		
		// Play the movie!
		[self.streamMoviePlayer play];
	}

[Danny]

Originally Posted by angelfilm

I guess I was using multiple video players without releasing the first one. Using this helped to keep one MPMoviePlayerController active at all times, but switching it with this approach worked.

	MPMoviePlayerController *mp = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:self.splashURL];
	mp.scalingMode				= MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
	if (mp)
	{
		// save the movie player object
		self.streamMoviePlayer = mp;
		[mp release];
		
		
		// Play the movie!
		[self.streamMoviePlayer play];
	}

[mMoviePlayer setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationPortrait animated:NO];

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