MPMoviePlayerController showing black empty screen
You need to retain your instance of MPMoviePlayerController i.e. as a property or an instance variable. The reference to the movie player is lost if you do not retain it.
You could try to put [itemMoviePlayerController prepareToPlay]; before the [itemMoviePlayerController play];
The way preferred by Apple to display an only full screen video is to present a modal MPMoviePlayerViewController (as Hollance said).To present it, you should use something like :
moviePlayerViewController = [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:fileURL]; [self presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:moviePlayerViewController]; [itemMoviePlayerController play];This is documented by Apple here
You can read there that you should keep a reference to your MPMoviePlayerViewController in order to dismiss it later with
[self dismissMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated:moviePlayerViewController].
I fixed this by putting
@property (strong, nonatomic) MPMoviePlayerController *moviePlayer; in my .h file, and calling self.moviePlayer in all my code and it worked!