MPMoviePlayerController plays without -play being called after -prepareToPlay is called

Question

I have some code that sets up an MPMoviePlayerController to play back a video stored in the app.

I follow the example code in Apple's documentation. However, the video plays even if I don't call -play on it as long as I have called -prepareToPlay.

NSURL *movieURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:_videoName ofType:@"mp4"]];

MPMoviePlayerController *player = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:movieURL];

[player setMovieSourceType:MPMovieSourceTypeFile];

[player setScalingMode:MPMovieScalingModeAspectFit];

[[player view] setFrame:[[self view] bounds]];
[[self view] addSubview:[player view]];


[player prepareToPlay];

//[player play];

Will play the video. I uncomment the -play and the same thing happens. It does not matter if I have -play in or not. And I had -prepareToPlay earlier in the code as well (before the view setup) and it did not make a difference.

This is on iOS8 of some sort. I have not tried other versions of iOS.

Why does it work like this? The Apple docs make it sound like it should not play until -play is called.

Answer 1

Try adding this line of code

player.shouldAutoplay = NO;

By default it is set to YES.