I'm developing a Windows Phone 8.1 app that plays a video using the MediaElement control. I'm facing some problems for which I've not been able to find information. I've uploaded an example app here: https://mega.co.nz/#!s9sFiQDK!JDI9ar8qWqWIZ_Ot-Q8K8X0qfQ5YG7ATLAiHypOs5Ow
If a click the button in the default page, the app navigates to a second page that contains a MediaElement to play a video. My app is configured to be Portrait only, but I want the video to be displayed in Landscape. For this, I'm changing the screen orientation when clicking on the button and before navigating to the video page with this line: Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayInformation.AutoRotationPreferences = Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayOrientations.Landscape; The problem with this is that I can see in the app when the orientation is changing which looks ugly. How can I do to make the video display in landscape without having to change the orientation of the screen? I've seen in the Facebook app that when a video opens, the app does navigate to another page (or at least it seems so from the transition animation that I see) but even though, videos open and play in landscape, there is no screen rotation.
I want to hide the StatusBar before the page with the video is displayed. I've put this line statusBar.HideAsync(); in various places but regardless, I always see that the StatusBar is still hiding when the video is already visible and playing. Again, the Facebook app does hide the StatusBar before the video is shown in the screen.
When the video is playing, if I press and hold the back hardware button, the app is minimized. Now, if I click on its screenshot to go back to it, the app comes to the foreground, but the video is not playing anymore. If I tap on the video to see the video controls, I can see that the video progress line is moving, but the video is like frozen. If I pause the video and play it again, the video resumes. How do I do to make the video to continue to play when the app comes to the foreground? In the Facebook app when I do this, the app comes to the foreground, but the video page is closed and the app takes me to the timeline page. Is this the only way of doing it? If so, how do I detect that when the app comes to the foreground there is a video playing so I can close the page and navigate to the previous one.
If you always want the video page in landscape mode, you can call
Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayInformation.AutoRotationPreferences = Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayOrientations.Landscape;
in the page constructor, after InitializeComponent();
Calling
StatusBar.GetForCurrentView().HideAsync();
in the main page constructor is working fine for me.
I still have the same problem, I've tried different approaches, but I can't even get App.Resuming event (and unfortunately in Windows Phone 8.1 WinRT OnNavigatedTo is not triggered on app resuming).
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I am developing this app for ipad and ios9 and at some point the user will click on a button to watch a video. But I wouldn't want the user to just see it in the split view size he's currently on (like 1/3rd or 14th) instead I would like the app to close the other open app and for it to take over the entire screen.
Does anyone know if that's possible? Thanks.
By-default, the video always get played in full-screen mode. When video playing is finished, the player gets dismissed and you will see your screen (from where you played the video). In your case, in split view controller.
Do let me know if you need further details.
I have seen the same question but not have the right solution, so I decided to post my own problem.
I'm using an MPMoviePlayerController for playing video in iOS app. I can make it to play in background within my app or even when user tap on Home button (play in background).
The problem is when MPMoviePlayerController is playing, press home button on iPhone, make the app enter
background. Then tap the app's icon to make the app enter foreground, the MPMoviePlayerController's view will be black screen, audio still continue, only video screen cannot see anything.
This is NOT happen if in background, MPMoviePlayerController play the next video, when come foreground from background it works perfectly. And it also not happen in iOS6 or before.
So in inclusion the problem occurred when play the itself video in iOS7
How to make the MPMoviePlayerController's video shows immediately when app came to foreground?
Many thanks for any help!
I have an application that plays video from local disk and when a second screen is connected (through AV composite cable) it switch the movie view to the external screen. this is working fine so far. what I want is, when the user press the home button and the app goes to background mode; I want to continue playing the video in the second screen while the app is running in the background mode. this works for audio, as I have set my application to continue play audio in background mode and it is working fine: the audio continue to play in the background mode fine. now is it possible to continue play video as well, and how?
This is not possible. It is outside of the scope of an iOS app to continue powering a screen while it is in the background.
I have a tabbed application in which some view controllers have an embedded video player.
For obvious reasons, I want to stop the video when the user move to another tab (otherwise, it continue playing in background).
In iOS 5, I had implemented this in the viewDidDisappear on the view controller. However, since iOS 6, it seems that the full screen mode of the media player makes the underlying view to "disappear". So, my video stops 1sec after I press the full screen button.
So my question is: what are the best practices to stop the video when moving out from the media player container, while keeping support for full-screen mode?
I have a web site that opens iframe for video on page, page uses ajax to pull in videos from selected menu. As expected and understood, on iPod touch after selecting video it shows a play button, which brings up video in another screen. However, when the video completes, it returns browser to page prior to one where video was played from. Sequence:
open Page1
go to Page2 which offers videos to play, in iframe
play video
video completes, returns to Page1, not Page2!!
Only happens on iPod touch, so must be issue with how control is returned on video completion.
Any suggestions? If this is not a known problem, I can work up example (currently, need account on site).
Of course, because the browser returns the URL of the page that was displayed before the video was played back. It won't remember the URL of the IFRAME, that had already changed in the process of selecting a video, if I don't get you wrong.
That's a common problem with frames/iframes and one reason why you shouldn't use them.
The solution could be to place your video selection menu in your actual page and not in an IFRAME. This could be achieved by loading in into a DIV via Ajax for example.
Figured this out, sort of. Got it to go back to the right place, but I do believe that it is easy to confuse the iTouch quicktime player and Safari about where to return to.