View video in Landscape mode - xcode

Question

I have a video in my application, but it's in portrait. I want to display it in landscape mode, but I don't have any idea how to do that.
I used this code to make my video:
- (IBAction)playMovie:(id)sender
{
NSString *filepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"BAZO" ofType:#"m4v"];
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filepath];
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(moviePlaybackComplete:)name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:moviePlayerController];
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayerController.view];
moviePlayerController.fullscreen = YES;
//Uncomment om beeld formaat aan te passen
//moviePlayerController.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
[moviePlayerController play];
}
- (IBAction)playSecondMovie:(id)sender
{
NSString *filepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"00 01. Welcome" ofType:#"mov"];
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filepath];
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(moviePlaybackComplete:)name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:moviePlayerController];
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayerController.view];
moviePlayerController.fullscreen = YES;
//Uncomment om beeld formaat aan te passen
//moviePlayerController.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
[moviePlayerController play];
}
- (void)moviePlaybackComplete:(NSNotification *)notification
{
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayerController = [notification object];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:moviePlayerController];
[moviePlayerController.view removeFromSuperview];
[moviePlayerController release];
}
-(void) tableView: (UITableView*) tableView
didSelectRowAtIndexPath: (NSIndexPath*) indexPath
{
NSString *filepath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"BAZO" ofType:#"m4v"];
NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filepath];
MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayerController = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:#selector(moviePlaybackComplete:)name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:moviePlayerController];
[self.view addSubview:moviePlayerController.view];
moviePlayerController.fullscreen = YES;
//Uncomment om beeld formaat aan te passen
//moviePlayerController.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;
[moviePlayerController play];
/*-(void)loadVideo:(NSString *)name ofType:(NSString *)type{
NSURL *url=[NSURL fileURLWithPath:[mainBundle pathForResource:#"BAZO" ofType:#"m4V"]]
if (!mp) mp = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:url];
[mp play];
}*/
}
Maybe somebody can give me a hint or a method so I can put this to landscape?
I used this code:
[MPMoviePlayerController setOrientation:UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft animated:NO];
but it gives me the warning :
MPMoviePlayerController may not respond to -setOrientation:animated:
What's happening?

Answer 1

Had this problem as well,
I was running it in the appDelegate file, which meant I had to force the window to change to landscape so if the original is like this:
-(void)playMovie {
NSString *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle]
pathForResource:#"intro"
ofType:#"m4v"];
MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:url]];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter]
addObserver:self
selector:#selector(movieFinishedCallback:)
name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification
object:player];
[player setFullscreen:YES animated:YES];
[player setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleNone];
[window addSubview:player.view];
[window bringSubviewToFront:player.view];
[player setFullscreen:YES animated:YES];
[player setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleNone];
[player play];
}
all that is needed is to add these lines:
[window setBounds:CGRectMake( 0, 0, 480, 320)];
[window setCenter:CGPointMake(160, 240];
[window setTransform:CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(M_PI/ 2)];
before the [player play], and at the movie finish call, add
struct CGRect rect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
rect.origin.x = rect.origin.y = 0.0f;
window =[[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:rect];
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
to reset the view.
Not sure if it's the right way to do it, but it was the only thing worked for me.

Answer 2

Use MPMoviePlayerViewController instead of MPMoviePlayerController. It will handle orientation, control style, etc. I referred this answer for the same.
MPMoviePlayerViewController *playerView = [[[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL] autorelease];
[self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:playerView];
and in the AppDelegate.m, declare the following function which will restrict the orientation to portrait in all cases and will only change when a video is playing
- (NSUInteger)application:(UIApplication *)application supportedInterfaceOrientationsForWindow:(UIWindow *)window
{
if ([[self.window.rootViewController presentedViewController] isKindOfClass:[MPMoviePlayerViewController class]])
{
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskAll;
}
else
{
//NSLog(#"orientation should change");
return UIInterfaceOrientationMaskPortrait;
}
}