Playing a silent movie with AVFoundation and keeping iPod music playing

Question

I have an app that plays silent Movies using AVFoundation. Is there a way to allow the music to play and your iPod (if you're playing music) to continue playing? If I play the movie will my iPod is on, the iPod pauses so the movie can play, and vice versa - if I try to replay the music while the movie is playing, the movie pauses. Basically, I want them to play continue playing seamlessly....

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Answer 1

In my experience, for standard AVAudioPlayer based sound in an app, managing the AVAudioSession is required to allow background music:

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient withOptions:AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionMixWithOthers error:nil];

But I can't tell you if that's the same as attempting to play encoded/compressed Video and encoded/compressed audio at the same time.