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How to prevent pinch gesture in MPMoviePlayerViewController?

As MPMoviePlayerViewController supports pinch gesture ( two fingers move apart ) to make the movie player full screen, is there any method to remove this gesture? Because if I use the gesture, the movie is still playing without the video. I think the view of movie controller is removed from super view.

I tried overriding touchesBegan and the notification WillEnterFullScreenNotification & DidEnterFullScreenNotfication, but it didn't work.

Solution

  • I had a similar issue with the "pinch gesture" reorienting the video display from landscape to portrait. I solved it by accessing the view property of the MPMoviePlayerController object and setting userInteractionEnabled to NO.

    moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] init];
[moviePlayer view].userInteractionEnabled = NO;

    This prevents any user touches from getting through and changing the orientation or fullscreen status of the MPMoviePlayerController.