Video Playback integration

Hi,

I am attempting to copy the functionality of the Video Playback sample into my own iOS app, and am stuck at a point...

I have the SDK linked properly, have copied over the class files and assets from the sample, set the arc flags, etc... 

Where I am having issues is in launching the VideoPlaybackViewController ... 

I know in the sample the sample app menu is triggered in the App Delegate, then the playback screen is launched from there... 

I believe the relevant code is here : 

- (IBAction)startButtonTapped:(id)sender {
    Class vcClass = NSClassFromString(self.appViewControllerClassName);
    id vc = [[vcClass alloc]  initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
    
    SampleAppSlidingMenuController *slidingMenuController = [[SampleAppSlidingMenuController alloc] initWithRootViewController:vc];
    [slidingMenuController shouldIgnoreDoubleTap];
    
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:slidingMenuController animated:NO];
    [slidingMenuController release];
    [vc release]; // don't leak memory
}

What I am trying to do is to launch the VideoPlaybackViewController from a segue in my storyboard... but it get stuck on the EaglView progress indicator... 

I've set breakpoints on both the sample and the custom project, and can see the chain of method calls pretty clearly on both... and they seem to match, so I'm not sure that I am doing anything wrong... 

Can someone - either a Mod or someone who has successfully implemented a custom version of the VideoPlayback sample in an ARC project - please give me an idea about what I am missing ?

Thanks in advance...

~ Jesse