Reading mp4 details

Question

Hi there.
I have added a movie with some random name (myMovie12.mp4) into my iPhone xcode project and then using MPMoviePlayer i m playing this movie. How can i get the details of this movie? I mean the size, duration, original name? In short i need to read the mp4 tags of my movie? Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Reading the previous eventually leads to...
• Multimedia Support
http://developer.apple.com/IPhone/library/documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/Me diaPlayerFramework/index.html#//appleref/doc/uid/TP40006952
...which then goes to...
• MPMediaQuery Class Reference
http://developer.apple.com/IPhone/library/documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MP MediaQuery_ClassReference/Reference/Reference.html
Which, among other details, includes:
Creating Media Queries
The class methods in this section create queries which you can use directly or modify as described in
“Configuring Media Queries.” For each class method, the query’s groupingType property is set
automatically according to the name of the method. For example, the albumsQuery method assigns
a grouping type of MPMediaGroupingAlbum. The grouping type specifies the nature of the media
item collections you can then retrieve from the query. Some class methods match the entire iPod
library while others match a subset, as described in the Discussion sections for each method.
+ albumsQuery
+ artistsQuery
+ songsQuery
+ playlistsQuery
+ podcastsQuery
+ audiobooksQuery
+ compilationsQuery
+ composersQuery
+ genresQuery
– init
– initWithFilterPredicates
All of which will help you to understand what is needed to parse your MP4s for title, length, etc.
Sample Apple project loosely related:
SpeakHere
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/SpeakHere/
Please speak up if you need the code written, etc.