Playing Multiple Videos on iPAD

Question

I am facing some problem in playing multiple videos on iPAD. I am trying to play multiple thumbnail videos on the same view. You can say its much like the CCTV camera.Well, i have no clue. Please help me. Thanks in advance...

Solution 1

MPMoviePlayerController will allow multiple instances, but only one of them can be playing their movie at any given time.

It mentions it here: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/mediaplayer/reference/MPMoviePlayerController_Class/MPMoviePlayerController/MPMoviePlayerController.html

From the article:

Note: Although you may create multiple MPMoviePlayerController objects and present their views in your interface, only one movie player at a time may play its movie.

Solution 2

You can't use the MKMediaFramework to play multiple videos. You can however do this with the lower level AVFoundation Framework. It's not as hard as you might think and I've made a tutorial that goes over it here: http://www.sdkboy.com/?p=66

Essentially what you need to do is extend UIView so it contains an AVPlayerLayer to which the output of an AVPlayer object is directed, then you can create multiple instances of this UIView that you feed video using AVPlayer instances.