iOS - Embed video in app with my app User Interface

Question

I am working on an app that can play some short animated clips. At this point my only option is to embed animated frames. It works just fine. But I am just wondering if there's another way to simply embed the animated files directly as a movie clip in order to avoid importing tons of frames. Perhaps it'd be better for image compression.

In that regards I am aware of these alternatives: the MediaPlayer Framework, MPMoviePlayerController presented here http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/iphone/mediaplayer-framework_mpmovieplayercontroller_ios4/ and also some other techniques showed here http://www.raywenderlich.com/13418/how-to-play-record-edit-videos-in-ios

However this would mean using Apple's UI. I would like instead to create a more integrated experience that is using my own app UI.

Is there a library for that?

Answer 1

Take Look at AVPlayer Class Reference https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/AVFoundation/Reference/AVPlayer_Class/Reference/Reference.html.
and AVPlayerLayer Class Reference http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AVFoundation/Reference/AVPlayerLayer_Class/Reference/Reference.html
It has the ability to do what you need. You can aslo animate the layer just like other CALayers