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# Playing Moving Photos with MovingPhotoView 

The **MovingPhotoView** component is used to play moving photos and control the playback status.

## Constraints

- Currently, live properties cannot be set.
- Currently, the ArkUI [expandSafeArea](../../reference/apis-arkui/arkui-ts/ts-universal-attributes-expand-safe-area.md#expandsafearea) cannot be set.
- When this component is long pressed to trigger playback, the component area is zoomed in to 1.1 times.
- This component uses [AVPlayer](../../reference/apis-media-kit/js-apis-media.md#avplayer9) to play moving photos. A maximum of three AVPlayers can be used at the same time. Otherwise, frame freezing may occur.

## How to Develop

1. Import modules.
 
   ```ts
   import { MovingPhotoView, MovingPhotoViewController, MovingPhotoViewAttribute } from '@kit.MediaLibraryKit';
   ```

2. Obtain a moving photo object.

   Use the **photoAccessHelper** APIs to create or obtain a moving photo object. The **MovingPhotoView** receives only the constructed moving photo object.
     
   For details about how to create and obtain a moving photo object, see [Accessing and Managing Moving Photo Assets](photoAccessHelper-movingphoto.md).

   ```ts
   src: photoAccessHelper.MovingPhoto | undefined = undefined;
   ```

3. Create a **MovingPhotoViewController** instance, which is used to control the playback status of moving photos.
   
   ```ts
   controller: MovingPhotoViewController = new MovingPhotoViewController();
   ```   

4. Create a **MovingPhotoView** instance.

   The values in the following sample code are only examples. For details about the value range of each parameter, see [@ohos.multimedia.movingphotoview](../../reference/apis-media-library-kit/ohos-multimedia-movingphotoview.md).
   
   ```ts
    MovingPhotoView({
        movingPhoto: this.src,
        controller: this.controller
        })
        .width('100%')
        .height('100%')
        // Whether to mute the playback. The default value is false. In this example, it is controlled by the button.
        .muted(this.isMuted)
        // Video display mode, which is set to Contain. The default value is Cover.
        .objectFit(ImageFit.Contain)
        // Triggered when the playback starts.
        .onStart(() => {
            console.log('onStart')
        })
        // Triggered when the playback ends.
        .onFinish(() => {
            console.log('onFinish')
        })
        // Triggered when the playback stops.
        .onStop(() => {
            console.log('onStop')
        })
        // Triggered when an error occurs.
        .onError(() => {
            console.log('onError')
        })

      Row() {
        // Button for starting playback.
        Button('start')
          .onClick(() => {
            this.controller.startPlayback()
          })
          .margin(5)
        // Button for stopping playback.
        Button('stop')
          .onClick(() => {
            this.controller.stopPlayback()
          })
          .margin(5)
        // Button controlling whether to mute the playback.
        Button('mute')
          .onClick(() => {
            this.isMuted = !this.isMuted
          })
          .margin(5)
      }
      .alignItems(VerticalAlign.Center)
      .justifyContent(FlexAlign.Center)
      .height('15%')
   ```

## Effect

![](figures/moving-photo-view.gif)