Media plugin keeps crashing on ios with EXC_BAD_ACCESS

Aniket

I've barely any experience with xcode or ios, I usually work in android. My code is really simple,
require "media"
mediamanager:playVideo("walk.avi", false)

That's it and of course the walk.avi is added to the project. What am I doing wrong? I'm going to try just require "media" and see if that crashes too.

SinisterSoft

You need the media plugin for your xcode too.

Aniket

I copied the contents of the Plugin folder in the Media folder to the xcode project and added it.

SinisterSoft

You need to follow the instructions for ios here:

https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/plugins/gmedia/install.html

ar2rsawseen

@Aniket there was a similar bug
http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/5551/video-playing-not-working-in-ios-/p1

It seems same bug slipped in again, I fixed it just now, can you try updating this file:
https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/plugins/gmedia/source/iOS/Plugins/Media/GMediaClass.mm

Aniket

@ar2rsawseen I just saw your post, I'm trying that now and the error below was before I tried to replace your file. Still doing it to see if it fixes the issue.

I've made really sure to do that. I still get an error and a crash, bit more detail though:

Cannot find function pointer IOHIDLibFactory for factory AVPlayerLayer release: message sent to deallocated instance

So it works now! Excellent. Looks like mp4's are the only format that works decently on iOS. There may be others but mp4 works for sure.

Aniket

@ar2rsawseen So now it works but the video doesn't appear to be going entirely fullscreen, there seems to be a small gap between the top of the screen and the video. Is this due to the resolution of the screen and the video resizing to fit inside?

Also, is there any way to rotate the video other than changing the orientation of the app?

ar2rsawseen

Yes, full screen is done the way to fit the video on screen, so as with letter box scaling, there might be gaps

And unfortunately no API to rotate it from Lua, but you can modify ios code to do so