alternative to theora codec?

Hi,
probably discussed before, but I cant find anything..
I just realized that Unity converts every movie to Theora codec - which is has no support for hardware acceleration and its performance is not good enough for the professional use i would like to use it for..
Is there alternative to it? Is there a plugin or something that would allow playing of lets say H264 movie textures??

 

I came across the same problem and couldn't find anything. You can check unity answers btw you will find a couple of questions there on this matter.

As far as I can right now, the only viable solution is writing a little plugin that uses libVLC or something similar. I was able to run an mpeg with excellent performance using libvlc with about 6 lines of C code. However the tricky part is integrating into Unity's rendering pipeline. There is documentation about how to do it, it's just that at that point I decided I should come back to it later because we had more pressing issues.

If you want I can send you what I have so far perhaps you could continue with such a plugin?

 

i am really happy to manage my hi-res / HD videos with http://www.renderheads.com/portfolio/UnityAVProQuickTime/
(it works using QuickTime.. so every video format supported by QT works perfectly)

 

Thanks krur, exactly what i was looking for!

 

Yes, we have a few video related plugins for Unity including playback of h264, avi, mov, mp4 etc... Links in my signature below.