How do you rewind a movie texture?

In the help it says that Stop() will stop and rewind a movie texture. It stops the movie but the displayed frame stays on the stopped one, fair enough, but how do you force it to update and display the first frame that the movie is rewound too?

 

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. Movie.Stop();
3. Movie.Play();
4. Movie.Stop();
5.  

Play and stop it again in quick succession? Might force it to re-render on the initial rewound frame.

 

That's basically what i'm trying at the moment without much success. This could do with a refresh method.

 

Or a separate stop and rewind method. Haven't played much with movie textures but it sounds like behavior isn't following what's suggested by the docs. I'd file a bug report.

As a last ditch effort, try programatically removing and reassigning the texture. That likely would reset it to the initial frame.

 

I don't know if it's just an editor thing but even between starting and stopping the entire app it remembers the stopped frame.

 

Hi, coincidentally I was looking to do something similar. I added a wishlist item:

http://feedback.unity3d.com/pages/15792-unity/suggestions/280091-video-seek-scrub-in-movie-textures

 

I've got something going but it's all very hacky and not nice really. Hopefully one day this will get looked at.

 

Hi,
I really need to rewind a Texture. Is is possible already? Or any other suggestions to create a dynamic video que?
How did you do it in the end Monark?!

THANKS!
Harm

 

I did manage to get it to work by stopping then playing a tiny bit then stopping again but this only worked consistently with short movie clips <30 secs, with long ones I found that often it wouldn't rewind to the start and then would skip before playing again, all very bad. I logged a bug/feature request.

 

I also need the movie playback to function flawless and without dropping frames. Unity is a great piece of software, but I am really frustated with the movie texture features, to a point that I will have to consider other options. Hope to see improvement in this area....

 

what alternatives to movie textures are there??

image sequence?? can it perform well and efficiently??

 

Really UT?

Really. You didn't put in seek and reliable video playing functionality?

I hate that when jumping on a project with Unity I need to go through and verify that that each functionality is actually fully functioning. Given the entire existence of movie players on computers, one should be able to assume, without hesitation that support for video means you can play, stop, pause, rewind and fast forward.

 

"Given the entire existence of movie players on computers, one should be able to assume, without hesitation that support for video means you can play, stop, pause, rewind and fast forward."

Couldn't agree more, eem.

If the Unity gods are listening, please add standard video control features. I was barking about this two years ago and it's back to haunt me again.

 

Hey

I am also stuck with the same problem and wondering why hasn't unity still done something to add some more basic functionality to the video player. I really need to add the seek bar and hence the option to Fast forward and Rewind my videos. Has anyone found a work around for this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

 

Hey ,
Can any one help me how to use movie texture or any demo project

 

Bump:
Docs are wrong here.
We need at least a rewind-to-start function!

(Better would be a seek function)

 

Need a seek frame function for playing Movie Texture. What did we pay for if it can't do a basic function like GoToFrame (x)?

 

Bump... lol

 

Really? No rewind!

 

Haha. I just recently had this discussion with someone where I said, "Well I haven't done it, but I assume there's some way to make it go to a specific frame in a movie clip." But upon closer examinaiton maybe I assumed wrong.

Oddly enough something like this klugey approach for playing video from an image sequence using the non-pro version of Unity might be better in my circumstance. If the length of the movie is short and there's no audio, and the ability to go to a particular frame is important ...
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/100174-HOW-TO-Play-Videos-Without-Pro

 

I use this:

Code (CSharp):

1. IEnumerator ResetMovieTexture()
2. {
3.       coverViewMovie.Stop();
4.       coverViewMovie.Play();
5.       yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
6.       yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
7.       coverViewMovie.Stop();
8. }

 

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/63938

This is a free asset which gives you a good range of features. You can rewind with setStepBackward(float sec): Its been good to me. Hope it is for you as well