Video Detecting buffering when streaming from URL using VideoPlayer

I'm trying to stream videos from a remote server using the VideoPlayer component on Android devices. Has anyone had any luck detecting when the VideoPlayer has run out of buffered video?

I've tried checking whether VideoPlayer.time or VideoPlayer.frame are still being incremented, however these continue to go up even when the video has frozen.

Any other suggestions?

(I'm using Unity 2017.4.0f1 on MacOS)

 

I am going to bump this as I am running into this as well with longer videos.

 

Would love an answer to this too (same version as the OP)

 

Any answer? Really really need to know how to do this.

 

I just faced this issue and don't find any documentation about how to handle so I found a solution for this by myself:

Code (CSharp):

1.  private void Update()
2.     {
3.         //when the video is playing, check each time that the video image get update based in the video's frame rate
4.         if (videoPlayer.isPlaying && (Time.frameCount % (int)(videoPlayer.frameRate + 1)) == 0)
5.         {
6.             //if the video time is the same as the previous check, that means it's buffering cuz the video is Playing.
7.             if (lastTimePlayed == videoPlayer.time)//buffering
8.             {
9.                 Debug.Log("buffering");
10.             }
11.             else//not buffering
12.             {
13.                 Debug.Log("Not buffering");
14.             }
15.             lastTimePlayed = videoPlayer.time;
16.         }
17.     }

 

Bump

Thanks for the workaround @Briner but a proper stalling event from Unity's VideoPlayer feels necessary.

 

Almost 2 years later and this is still an issue.

Video loaded from a url is "prepared", but when you go to play it, it begins buffering. What is the point of preparing the video?

 

Thanks for responding @The_Island I discovered my issue had to do with the H.264 error about the clip not being on the baseline...or whatever. That error apparently caused the video player to struggle with playing the clip correctly. I got a different version of the clip--without that error and everything played perfectly.

I'm a fan of the video player component now .