For whatever it's worth I have solved this problem. Or, rather, I have found
another way to get the desired result.
In the docs for MPMoviePlayerViewController it says: "... you can incorporate a
movie player view controller wherever you would normally use a view
controller." This is what I did with the results I complained about.
It turns out that when I instantiate the MPMoviePlayerViewController, but don't
push it myself, things behave as expected. I call
'presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:newMPMoviePlayerViewController on the
previous view controller.
There is a quirk worth mentioning, and that is that in the simulator the 'Done'
button doesn't get drawn, but it's functionality is there: just click in the
upper left to dismiss the entire thing. On the device the button is drawn as
expected.
Rainer
On Oct 20, 2010, at 13:36 , Rainer Standke wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an iPhone project where I am using an MPMoviePlayerViewController to
> display a movie. It is initialized with a URL, and the movie does indeed
> start playing, in portrait orientation.
>
> I want this to happen in landscape orientation, ideally doing autorotations.
>
> In my subclass of MPMoviePlayerViewController I have this method:
>
> -
> (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
> {
> NSLog(@"rotating to: %d", interfaceOrientation);
> NSLog(@"device orient: %d", [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation]);
> NSLog(@"UI orient: %d", self.interfaceOrientation);
>
> NSLog(@"generatesDeviceOrientationNotifications: %d", [[UIDevice
> currentDevice] isGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications]);
> return YES;
> }
>
> This method does get called when I rotate the device away from portrait, in
> which it first appears. The UI orientation never changes away from 1 =
> portrait.
>
> I have also implemented this:
>
> -
> (void)willRotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
> duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration
> {
> NSLog(@"will rotate");
> }
>
> This does get called, but the UI rotation never happens.
>
> What can I do to get a) the movie to play in landscape, and b) the UI to
> autorotate?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Rainer
>
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