iPhone Blogs: Playing video stored on a server in an iPhone App

Monday, February 21, 2011

- (void)viewDidLoad {

[super viewDidLoad];

[self playVideo:@"test url" frame:CGRectMake(20, 70, 280, 250)];

}

- (void)playVideo:(NSString *)urlString frame:(CGRect)frame {

NSString *embedHTML = @"\

<html><head>\

body {\

background-color: transparent;\

color: white;\

</style>\

<script>\

function load(){document.getElementById(\"yt\").play();}\

</script>\

</head><body onload=\"load()\"style=\"margin:0\">\

<video id=\"yt\" src=\"%@\" \

width=\"%0.0f\" height=\"%0.0f\" autoplay controls></video>\

</body></html>";

NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:embedHTML, urlString, frame.size.width, frame.size.height];

UIWebView *videoView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];

[videoView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];

[self.view addSubview:videoView];

[videoView release];

NSLog(@"%@",html);

}