MediaPlayer playing sound in silence mode? WTF?

[Johanovski]

Hi there!

I'm using a video as an introduction of my game and I've recently added audio to that video (in .mp4 format). And what's my surprise when I've seen that movie''s audio is played even if the device is in silence mode! What can be happening? I've thought that no sound is being played if the device is in vibration mode...
I post the code because I don't know if it's something I did wrong...

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {

	NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
	
	NSString *moviePath = [bundle pathForResource:@"intro" ofType:@"m4v"];
	NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath];
	theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];

	theMovie.movieControlMode = MPMovieControlModeHidden;
	
	[theMovie play];
}

Thanks in advance! ^_^

[Gomfucius]

I'm having the same issue now.
Also, I want to be able to control the sound when I play my movie.

Originally Posted by Johanovski

Hi there!

I'm using a video as an introduction of my game and I've recently added audio to that video (in .mp4 format). And what's my surprise when I've seen that movie''s audio is played even if the device is in silence mode! What can be happening? I've thought that no sound is being played if the device is in vibration mode...
I post the code because I don't know if it's something I did wrong...

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {

	NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
	
	NSString *moviePath = [bundle pathForResource:@"intro" ofType:@"m4v"];
	NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:moviePath];
	theMovie = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];

	theMovie.movieControlMode = MPMovieControlModeHidden;
	
	[theMovie play];
}

Thanks in advance! ^_^

[Johanovski]

Hi Gomfucius!

It seems that's not possible to control a movie's volume programmatically and, what I think is worst, the mediaplayer completely ignores if the device is in silence or not, so sound will be played anyway. What I've done is to have the same video with sound and without sound and, just after loading the video, I check if the device is in silence mode or not and, if yes, I load the silenced video or, if not, I load the video with sound. It's a bit annoying having to do this way, but it's the only way I've found...

Hope it helped!

[Gomfucius]

That's a pain! My movie is about 10MB, so I really shouldn't make users install another 10MB..
Thanks for the reply!

[Johanovski]

Hi Gomfucius!

Lucky that my movie is only about 0.5 MB so it isn't a big pain to have a silenced copy... Maybe there's another way to make sure a movie is silenced after playing it, but I didn't find it yet, maybe if you ask in forums or google for it you'll be luckier than me (and if so please let me know why this can be done! )!

Good luck!