play video

[vivendi]

I want to play a video in the normal video player that comes with the iOS.
But the video isn't stored locally, but on a remote server. Could someone here please tell me how to play a video from a remote server?

BTW, (as far as it makes any difference) I'm conding in xcode 4.

Thanks in advance.

[vivendi]

I actually just figured out what to do. But for some reason no video player is started...

Anyone any idea what i'm doing wrong??

        NSURL* videoURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.w3schools.com/html5/movie.mp4"];
        MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];
        [moviePlayer prepareToPlay];
        [moviePlayer play];

[vivendi]

It does play, but i only hear the sound in the background
How can i make it show in the videoplayer?

It looks like the video player stays behind my app... Because the toolbar at the top (where you see the battery level etc) disappears. It becomes black and then i hear the sound....

[iisword]

try MPMoviePlayerViewController along with presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:

[vivendi]

Just foind out how to do it.

I was launching the player from a webview. So i created a subview in my webview.

[self.webView addSubview:moviePlayer.view];