[BUG: v4.6.4] Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie doesn’t work on Android 4.1 and 4.3 OS

Since I’ve updated unity to 4.6.2, Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie stopped working for Androids OS that are not 4.4 or 5.0.

Try and play a mp4 file on mobile device with an Android 4.1 or 4.3 with a project build with Unity 4.6.2.
I've tested with mobile devices with an Android 4.4 and it works fine (couldn't test other versions because I don't have devices running those versions). This happened right after I updated Unity to 4.6.2.

Cheers

 

Does anyone else have this problem?
Is anyone from the Unity dev team able to tell me if this bug is fixed?

 

Try maybe 4.6.2 patch 2 ?

 

Yes I did and no luck
Does anyone got the same problem?
Is anyone from unity confirm that this bug is fixed?

 

Yes I filled a bug report a week ago but no reply yet. Report nº: 670850

I’ve updated from 4.6.2 patch 1 to patch 2.

 

I’ve added all the info in the report. But I’ll say it here too.

Happened after updating to Unity 4.6.2. I’ve used various Android Devices (Samsungs, Xperias, Hawuaiii, LG) and happened if they were running Android 4.1 and 4.3 [probably doesn’t run before 4.4 version] and didn’t happened on Android 4.4 and 5.0 [probably runs OK after Android 4.4])

Doesn’t need any special project. Just need to call Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie nothing more.

 

This might seem like a stupid question, but do you have an Android pro license? I recently ran into the same issue at work. If you only have an iOS pro licence, unity doesn't display any kind of warning concerning Handheld.PlayFullscreenMovie if you build for Android.

 

Yes I have. If I hadn’t pro license for android I couldn’t have it work for Android 4.4+ versions.

 

I think im in the same boat, using Unity 4.6.3p1 for Mac OSX 10.9. I have tried different devices, plugins that use the android mediaplayer, empty projects, about 15 different rtsp streams and still no luck. With Handheld class, the logcat throws an error like this

then proceeds to display a black screen(playing no video/audio).The url doesn't seem to be very important, with every url i've tried the error is the same. After a touch input on the device, the logcat shows the following:

The same error(-38,0) occurs even with Prime31's etcetera plugin.
The devices i tested on run 4.1.2 and 4.4.2

 

Just an update, i have made a mini movie player in Java so i can test the url i've been trying to open natively, and it works fine with the default android MediaPlayer class. This is clearly an issue in Unity implementation.

 

I'm having the same issue. Any chance you could share the movie player you made? I don't have much experience in building plugins yet.

 

I didn't make a plugin for Unity, i just made a very basic native java media player to test if the stream plays on the default media player class of android. We ended up using Application.OpenUrl and prompt the user to select an external video player.

 

I only get this error on devices running Android OS 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 (JellyBean). On devices running Android OS 4.4 and 5.0 (KitKat and Lollipop), the video works fine.

Does anyone from unity can update us on this bug fix?

Cheers,