Cannot make URL video work with google drive URL

Using the tutorial video, I can make video playback work using an empty game object with a camera attached. No scripting is involved at this point. When I use the video from the assets folder it works perfectly in near and far plane. If I select URL, and use the path on my hard drive to locate the video it works perfectly. However if I use the URL from google drive which is generated as the share link, the video doesn't play. Is this a know issue and is there a work around? Because this is a cloud based AR project, it must be built on an android platform for deployment, however right now I am just trying to get video playback working in pc mode. no AR. I will port it to the project with appropriate scripting once I can get it working. Right now the Full Screen is Okay, but I need to get it working in render mode eventually. Any help is appreciated

 

Ok I cannot get Video to work from any sharing site. Youtube, OneDrive, Google Drive, Vimeo etc. Is this just the way it is? I can make video work from non shared sites, but want to put up my own videos.
Will I need to have my own server or buy some space on a server to do this? It is difficult to teach students how to do this if I can't share the video.

 

if (mTargetName == "05_gmc_1500") {

// GUI.Box (new Rect(200,200,200,50), "Metadata: " + mTargetMetadata,guiStyle);

videoPlayer = gameObject.AddComponent<VideoPlayer>();

videoPlayer.source = VideoSource.Url;

GUI.Box (new Rect(200,200,200,50), "videoPlayer source is : " + videoPlayer.source,guiStyle);

videoPlayer.url = mTargetMetadata;

//GUI.Box (new Rect(200,200,200,50), "videoPlayer url is : " + videoPlayer.url,guiStyle);

//videoPlayer.isLooping = true;

videoPlayer.Play();


}

I am setting the url because I can display the url in VideoPlayer. I have a camera childed to the image target with camerafarplane selected and the camera set to the appropriate camera. It doesn't play, what on earth am I doing wrong?

 

Hello @Jim_in_dorris

The Videoplayer component is a Unity object and not a Vuforia object so these questions might be better suited for a different forum. My understanding of the component is that you need the URL to end in a file format (such as .mp4) and therefor video sharing site links such as YouTube will not work. I could be mistaken, but I'm sure someone on a different Unity forum can get you the right answer.

Thanks

 

Thanks I appreciate the response.