Mobile Movie Texture

If Unity Pros movie textures are no option for you (which are available on webplayers), then the only option you have is to play it in the website itself using the movie tag (web8m, mp4, ogg theora depending on browser)

 

FIXED: Turned out it was an issue with the videos. Re-encoded them with ffmpeg2theora and works a charm

 

I got problem about green screen.
When it starts with the movie, I could find green screen a little (200 ms???) especially on LG OPTIMUS 2.
Ofcourse I tried some codes from threads but it didn't work well.
Please give me a advice.

 

I tried to run a video of 1 sec. 900x400 but on Nexus 10 it's extremely slow. And on a Acer Iconia Tab A110 it's fine. Do you have any idea why? (there's no other thing in my scene, only the video)

 

Hi DanTreble,

I am having problems displaying demo movie from your first post properly on my Nexus 4.
Movie texture displays fine in the Unity 4 editor but I can only see 'Play/Pause' button and 'Trial version notice', similarly to appleunite3d post on the first page.

If I enable auto rotation in Android build settings then I can see the video for a split second when rotating the device.
Any advice?

Why do we have to try bugged version first?

 

hi,
can u give me the sample code?
i don't know how to write.
it only shows read-only when i change the path.
thx

 

Does your plugin work with Vuforia on android and ios?

 

Hi DanTreble,
Please, are you considering development plugin for the windows platform RT over 8 windows mobile? Thanks

 

Hi DanTreble,

Just bought your plugin, really really useful, great work!!!

 

Hello Dan,

First off, I wanted to say that the plugin has been such a fantastic tool for us. We've been using it on the iOS platform without issue.

However, I recently built the game in Android using the same code as iOS and we noticed some flickering around the time the video loops. What I mean by flicker is that it seems to flash to a random frame for a brief moment before continuing to play. It actually flickers once or twice around the loop point before continuing.

I believe we are on the latest version of your plugin. The Device was a Nexus 4 with 4.2.2 using Unity3d 4.1.

Let me know if I can provide any more information or if you'd like some video.

We appreciate your help!

Thank you,

Matthew Farmer
Dogbot Studios

 

Yes, that was the original reason I made it

 

That is strange. Obviously the Nexus 10 has a lot more pixels per inch than the A110, so the pixel shader cost on the N10 will be higher. I certainly don't have any device specific code in the plugin.

 

Not presently, I can't bring myself to install windows 8!

I'm hoping that unity will support movie textures natively one day

 

Hey Matthew, can you mail me the video in question please?

 

Hi, great plugin, just bought it.

I do have a problem with movie converting. I created a 350 frames with 30fps movie which is mp4 (tryed with avi also) format. But after converting the movie to ogg/ogv format i seem to loose a couple of frames at the end.
Is there a way around this, because i need all of the frames in that movie to play out so that the next movie i play right after doesn't glich.

The movies that are in mp4,avi format are working correctly.

Thanks

 

Couple of questions
Did you use my favourite converter ffmpeg2theora to convert to ogg/theora?
Are you playing the second movie using a new MMT or the same one, there maybe less hiccup (allocations etc) if you use the same one to play your second movie. Assuming it is the same pixel size.
Can you send me a sample I can debug? My email address in in the text file in the package.
Silly question, can you weld the two movies together if they need to play one after the other?!

Thanks

Dan

 

Yes, i tryed converting with ffmpeg2theora and with one online converter, vlc wouldn't convert (just wrote streaming)

The plugin plays the movie correctly, as it should. The problem is with the conversion of the movie. Whatever program i use to play the converted movie the it doesn't show the lost last few frames.

i'm going to email you the .mp4 and .ogv files.

Thanks

 

Hi,

if anyone else has the same problem with loosing frames during the conversion of the movie, Dan found out that the ffmpeg2theora.0.29 has this problem.

Instead use the 0.28 version, which doesn't have this problem:

Link

 

Hi,

is there a way to test the current version of MobileMovieTexture? I only found the demo for 1.1.1 and we want to test videotexture with alpha, before we decide to buy.

Greetings,

Martin

 

Annoyingly debugged an issue -- turns out case sensitivity matters on devices but not in the editor. Thought there was a problem with my video when it failed to open and crashed the app (but in editor it had no problems).

 

hey,
I've run into a bug in an Android project.
After I build an apk, where I put the material ball turns the color pink.
What I should now?

Version:MobileMovieTexture_v1.1.5.unitypackage

 

Pink can mean any number of things have gone wrong :-(

A log cat would be really useful http://developer.android.com/tools/help/logcat.html

 

Sorry JTown, I don't think I can test for case sensitivity reliably on windows :-(

 

HI,
I'm Demo packge download,
And build in Unity, Xocde... that's play succece in iPad
But, exchange not movie file..
Demo packge in movie file is "RocketBunnies".
I conveting codec my movie file, and attech movie file..
Not play in Unity.. and Null error...
How add movie file, and play?

 

I can get the movie texture to work on android and ios, but there seems to be a lot of flickering and I can see green screen behind the movie at times. Is this a common issue? Is there a fix?

 

Just got the plugin and it works great on it own.

I need to use this with vuforia and when i build and run my project on an iPhone the build crashes at the Splash screen.

s there a conflict between the 2 plugins? Any ideas on how i can fixed this?

 

Dear Mobile Movie Texture development team,


Hi,
I have a question about purchasing Mobile Movie Texture.

(1)
I found a notice about license in Asset Store; "This Extension requires one license per seat".
I'd like to know how many licenses should I purchase for our team.

* Our team (for example):
- 5 engineers (each person uses 1 PC and 1 Mac)
- 5 graphic designers (each person uses 1 PC, they don't require Mobile Movie Texture)
- 5 game designers (each person uses 1 PC)
- 10 or more testers and reviewers (each person uses 1 PC)

We'd like to commit Mobile Movie Texture's assets to our Subversion repository.
So I can't say precisely how many people will checkout it.
Could you please give me some advice?

(2)
Are there any methods to purchase Mobile Movie Texture other than using Asset Store?
If we have to purchase many licenses, I think that each developer has to create their Unity account.
However, it's hard for me to do that. There is some complicated procedures we should manage to do in our company, you know...


Thank you for your help.

 

Hi there! I'm having a problem

When I build my scene, Normal .exe, the videos aren't playing and its a pink screen. But it works in the editor. Any advice?

 

hi,DanTreble
Mobile Movie Texture,Why use no sound?

 

Hey Guys!

We're just trying to create an Android/iOS app with MobileMovieTexture. We use SplitAlpha movies with the 1.1.7 Android delta fix you've posted on the forum.

The plugins works fine on iOS and most of the Android test devices, but on the latest Galaxy S4 the movies are basically torn apart, and glitching randomly.

Has anyone encountered this problem?

Regrads:
Balazs

 

HI,
i tried to sync sound, good result on iOS but not on Android.
i used a separate AudioClip and try to sync it.
I calculated the delay between the two streams on the update method, then if the delay is becoming bigger than a X value, let's say 0.5 sec, i set the attachedAudioSource.timeSamples to the video time in that moment, but this works pretty fine on iOS but on Android i can hear glitches and echos. This is because on Android the delay is much more frequent. then i got the idea to use:

Code (csharp):

1. void OnAudioFilterRead (float[] data, int channels)  {    
2.  
3.        //makes audio wait for a difference smaller than 0.5
4.  
5.       // video is updated on Update method.
6.  
7.        while(audioVideoSyncDiff >0.5){
8.  
9.        }

}

but even i wait for much smaller values i still can hear pops in the sounds. I think this strategy of waiting is the right one, but how to avoid those pops? i tried to use a wav file but it did not help. Some ideas how to do it?

 

Hi,

what would be best practice for changing movie textures at runtime?

Scenario:
I have a plane that is supposed to show several different videos (depending which one the user selects)
So want to switch the movie at runtime.

Right now i change the path

Code (csharp):

1. MovieTexture.Path = "whatever.ogv";

then i call

Code (csharp):

1. VideoTexture.Open();

and

Code (csharp):

1. MovieTexture.Play();

which i set public in your source code.

This works just fine memory-wise. It causes the player tu stutter on mobile devices (when it loads the movie)
Is there a better way to do this?

Thx!

 

Hi there! I love the plugin but would like some advice on how to do this.

When the player presses a key, I'd like it to play the movie but if they press again it just restarts from the begining..
Unfortunately im not coder but I am using uScript.

Thanks!!

 

I have the same problem. Works well on all devices except Samsung Galaxy S4. Did you find a solution?

thx
Roberto

 

Hi there
for all others who have problems with the S4. You can reduce the frame rate like this in the Start function

Application.targetFrameRate = 15;

and then it works.

Cheers
Roberto

 

Does this support the ability to step forward and backward in the video?
Say I want to click and drag backwards to play backwards, and forward for forward?

Also, It says no audio, but I see someone mentioning audio? is there a trick to get audio to work?

 

How did you create and/or convert your video file with transparency, ExplosionSplitAlpha.ogv?

 

I would also like to experiment with this method, I really need synchronized audio on my Android and iOS platforms.
Could you please share your code? I will share any progress that I make as well, thanks!

 

Hi,

Just having a play with the demo today and got it working no problems. Nice work! Running on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.0 I noticed the video playback added quite a lot to the load - using the profiler I could see maybe 30%+ usage of the MobileMoveTexture.Update. It's a reasonably long clip I manually OGV'd prior to import and it's about 67MB in size. Any recommendations to improve performance (shorter clip/smaller something else) or should I adjust frame rate downwards?

Also I noticed some palette weirdness again on the Android - some black lines in rendering rest of the scene with the movie playing - this appears outside the area of a Projector/Multiply shadow blob (first person shadow). Not sure if this is related but didn't appear to be there before the movie was added.

Thanks!

 

Quick question (Hopefully anyway).

Can the Plugin load an OGV from a directory structure other than StreamingAssets/ ?

In particular, i'm looking to load/cache a movie file from the web, into a Unity app as a non-fullscreen asset, with alpha.

Is there a current method for pathing the plugin to another directory OTHER than /StreamingAssets/ for playback?

Please advise,

Thanks in (any) advance,

Nathaniel Hunter
SuperTales Inc.

 

Hi,

Congratulations to the plugin I was looking for this for a long time .
I tested with Vuforia but I have a concern. With the target image is always the same video being played.

I feel that it is with DefaultTrackableEventHandler the solution exists, but I can not find how.

I want to combine in one scene 5 pictures target with 5 different videos but this is the same video that is playing.

Do you have an idea, a track?

I developed an application for a client, you will allow me to quote your plugin?

Congratulations for your plugin

Regards

Sorry for my English dust.

Thank you Google Translate!

 

Hello, I've just downloaded your mobile movie plugin and its working great so far with only a minor exception. Audio isn't firing off the videos. Do I need to play the audio files separately from the plug-in or am I just doing something wrong?

Thank you in advance!

 

Hi, I'm an avid user of Mobile Movie Texture, but I have a problem which I can't solve which is how to get Mobile Movie Texture to write to a Texture2D so that I can use Mobile Movie Texture not just as a material but also within a GUI. Any workaround or solution would be wicked!

 

hi. i've got a question~

it it possible for the latest version of Chroma king is working

on android or iphone when you make a build out of it?

thank you

 

Hi DanTreble~

This plug in(Movie texture mobile), What do I need to use?

Description is required, or Video tutorial ...

 

I tried to compile a project to IOS and it gives me linker errors:

Undefined symbols for architecture armv7:
"_videoPlayerSetVideoTextureIDIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerSeekToIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerPlayIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerSetVolumeIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerPauseIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerOnPauseIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerDeinitIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerGetVideoWidthIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerGetVideoHeightIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerUnloadIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerIsPlayableFullscreenIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerIsPlayableOnTextureIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerGetCurrentPositionIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerGetCurrentBufferingPercentageIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerLoadIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerGetStatusIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerUpdateVideoDataIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerGetLengthIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerStopIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
"_videoPlayerInitIOS", referenced from:
RegisterMonoModules() in RegisterMonoModules.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture armv7
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Any ideas?

Regards,

IDP

 

Dan, just to bring to your attention. Your package is being plagarized here

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/194783-Buyers-Beware-All-Sales-Are-Final

 

I needed to play some videos that were encoded at the wrong framerate. I made the following changes to MobileMovieTexture.cs to allow the playback speed to be changed at runtime. Thought others might find this useful.

1. At the top add a private variable to keep track of the speed factor:

Code (csharp):

1. [UnityEngine.SerializeField]
2. private double m_speedScale = 1.0;

2. Add setter/getter functions:

Code (csharp):

1. public double speedScale
2. {
3.     get { return m_speedScale; }
4.     set
5.     {
6.         if (value >= 0.0)
7.             m_speedScale = value;
8.         else
9.             m_speedScale = 0.0;
10.     }
11. }

3. Final in Update, replace "m_elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;" with:

Code (csharp):

1. m_elapsedTime += m_speedScale * Time.deltaTime;

 

Hi

I will buy this Asset but on demo can't see any function to Seek the video

Video.SeekTo(time) something like this, is there anyway to do this

Thanks

 

I just bought the full version and and added it to my Metaio AR scene but the video textured object disappears (audio still plays)