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iPhone: initWithContentURL not playing the video

I have a .mp4 video url in my server and trying to play by using the following code. But it doesn't do any actions when click on play button. I'm trying to test on iPhone 4.0 simulator or iPod 4.1 device. Is there anything wrong here (or) can't it work on iOS 4.0 or 4.1?

NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:encodedURL];
MPMoviePlayerController *videoPlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc]initWithContentURL:url];
[self.view addSubview:videoPlayer.view];
videoPlayer.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
[videoPlayer play];

Please advise!

Encode function:

NSString *newString = [(NSString *)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(kCFAllocatorDefault, (CFStringRef)string, NULL, CFSTR("?#[]@!$ &'()*+,;=\"<>%{}|^~`"), CFStringConvertNSStringEncodingToEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)) autorelease];
Solution

  • If the file is on a server than the line:

    NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:encodedURL];

    should be:

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:encodedURL];

    You should also double check that the string encodedURL is correct by NSlog to your console.