Playing movies with locked screen (OS X, iOS)?

Is there a way to make OS X or iOS devices to play movies with the screen locked?
Like this (I first submitted the question in Vision because I also need to be able to have the movies play without video, AND with headphones as the standard "viewing screen" - currently this is not working neither for iPhone or iPad... of course there are a bit more audio narration options when using a full Mac instead)
iOS: movies and TV with audio only, with locked screen?

Answered in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12732692

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