Displaying animated content in iPhone app
Displaying animated content in iPhone app
- Subject: Displaying animated content in iPhone app
- From: patrick machielse <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:22:35 +0100
I'm working on an iPhone application and I need some advice on displaying animated content (think: cartoon like movies). Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
Goal
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The application needs to display short 2 second 'clips' of animated characters in a loop. Animation can be triggered by tapping the screen.
Options
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- I've looked at AVFoundation, but it seems to be all 'A', no 'V'.
- I've looked at MediaPlayer. The MPMoviePlayerController class however is very limited and doesn't offer features I would need. It takes over control of the screen/view. There is no access to the 'movie view', it assumes landscape playback so I need to rotate my content. etc. etc.
- I've seen mentioned that movie playback inside a view is not currently supported in the frameworks. I've also not found support for movie file formats (you can only pass a url into the iPhone frameworks, that's it).
Ultimately, the only approach left at this moment seems to be to create a movie playback view myself using Quartz? I really would like to forgo this if there is a way (or if there is existing code available).
So, what are the current options for displaying movie like content in your app and have a decent control over playback and display?
Thanks for any insight you can provide,
patrick
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Patrick Machielse
Hieper Software
http://www.hieper.nl
email@hidden
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