MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification not called

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Notifies observers that the movie finished playing. The affected movie player is stored in the object parameter of the notification. The userInfo dictionary of this notification contains the MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishReasonUserInfoKey key, which indicates the reason that playback finished. This notification is also sent when playback fails because of an error.

This notification is not sent in cases where the movie player is displaying in fullscreen mode and the user taps the Done button. In that instance, the Done button causes movie playback to pause while the player transitions out of fullscreen mode. If you want to detect this scenario in your code, you should monitor other notifications such as MPMoviePlayerDidExitFullscreenNotification.

The problem is probably because you are running in fullscreen mode.