How to Play Video from Within Collapsible UITableViewCell? - objective-c

Question

HI All: I have set up collapsible uitableviewcells and am trying to get video to play in the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method. I can get cells to fire a print statement to the console, but no matter what I try to get a video to play nothing works! Here is the code:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
[tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];
if(indexPath.section == 0)
{
if(indexPath.row == 0)
{
printf("hello");
}
else
{
printf("good bye");
}
}
else if(indexPath.section == 1)
{
if(indexPath.row == 0)
{
printf("hello");
}
else
{
printf("good bye again");
}
}
}
Can you please let me know what I need to do to get a local video file to play? Obviously I need help in Objective C please! I have tried to programmatically create an AVPlayerViewController and then use [self presentviewcontroller] method but I always get the following error (which is same error if I use prepareforSegue):
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"PrelimFig1" ofType:#"m4v"];
_videoURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
NSLog(#"I want to log: %#", _videoURL);
AVPlayerViewController *avp = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:_videoURL];
avp.player = player;
[self presentViewController:avp animated:YES completion:nil]
[player play];
Thank you in advance for your help!

Answer 1

You can do like that
NSURL *videoURLLocal = [[NSBundle mainBundle]URLForResource:#"PrelimFig1" withExtension:#"m4v"];
AVPlayerViewController *avp = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURLLocal];
avp.player = player;
[self presentViewController:avp animated:YES completion:^{
[player play];
}];
or
NSURL *videoURLLocal = [[NSBundle mainBundle]URLForResource:#"PrelimFig1" withExtension:#"m4v"];
// create an AVPlayer
AVPlayer *player = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoURLLocal];
// create a player view controller
AVPlayerViewController *controller = [[AVPlayerViewController alloc]init];
controller.player = player;
[player play];
// show the view controller
[self addChildViewController:controller];
[self.view addSubview:controller.view];
controller.view.frame = self.view.frame;