Note

If you simply want to display a full-screen movie player, you can use the MPMoviePlayerViewController class and push your movie player view controller into the stack of view controllers of a navigation controller (for instance), or simply present your movie player view controller as a modal controller on another view controller using the presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated: instance method of UIViewController. In this recipe, we will use MPMoviePlayerController instead of MPMoviePlayerViewController in order to get full access to various settings that a movie player view controller does not offer, such as windowed-mode video playback (not full-screen).