playing a movie on iPad, landscape, NOT fullscreen

[dagabe14]

Hello,

I am unsure if this is the correct forum to post this, but I figured I start somewhere.

I am looking to play a movie, on landscape (left to be exact), not fullscreen mode. I have looked in various places.

Is this even possible? I know that the setOrientation method is not supported for the iPad, and I couldn't get the shouldAutoRotate to work properly.

Thanks!

[dagabe14]

Originally Posted by dagabe14

Hello,

I am unsure if this is the correct forum to post this, but I figured I start somewhere.

I am looking to play a movie, on landscape (left to be exact), not fullscreen mode. I have looked in various places.

Is this even possible? I know that the setOrientation method is not supported for the iPad, and I couldn't get the shouldAutoRotate to work properly.

Thanks!

for anyone curious, I am still researching this, but it seems that the iPad only supports portrait when not in fullscreen.

Please someone prove this wrong!

[dagabe14]

Originally Posted by dagabe14

for anyone curious, I am still researching this, but it seems that the iPad only supports portrait when not in fullscreen.

Please someone prove this wrong!

/sigh, i just proved myself wrong

mpmovieplayercontroller contains a view, and can be affected by affine transformations...

- (void)startMovie:(NSString *)movieFilename
{
	NSString *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:movieFilename ofType:@"mov"];
	player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:url]];
	
	[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(movieFinishedCallback:) name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:player];
	
	CGAffineTransform landscapeTransform = CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI / 2.0f);
	player.view.frame = CGRectMake(40, 392, 320, 240);
	[player.view setTransform:landscapeTransform];
	[parentView addSubview:player.view];
	[player play];
}

And there we have a video playing landscape, not fullscreen, without the need for whatever rotate function mpmovieplayercontroller used to have.

i hope whoever reads this find this useful.