Mobile Movie Texture

OpenStream takes a raw file path, so you should be able to give it the path in persistentDataPath.

NB persistentDataPath is iCloud synced on iOS, you really want to use the temporary one

 

Can you send me the source video please and the converted one? I'll take a look

 

Dan,

Having an issue with continuous looping -- just got the control from the asset store.

 

This happens with non-square textures as far as I have understood.

 

Can you elaborate please? I'm sorry I can't guess what your issue is, I wish I could

 

They _should_ work fine non square. At best this is a bug in my theora wrapper and I can fix it. If it is in theora itself, I don't fancy my chances.

I'll report back...

 

Found and fixed. Thank you so much for the example.

Problem was that the uv scale/offset needs to be different for the CrCb planes than it does for the Y plane. As they are different sizes the extra 16 pixels of padding means they need different correction.

Replace the View attachment $YCrCbtoRGB.shader and the View attachment $MobileMovieTexture.cs file and you should be fine.

I'll have to migrate the other shaders to account for it.

 

i notice whenever it resets the "demo" watermark there is a second delay, is this normal for the demo? and would this go away with the full version?

i often need to play full screen 1024 by 768 videos, it seems to play smooth besides the "demo" refresh, can i be assured it wont freeze up in full version?

 

It does do a bunch of extra work that frame to copy the demo text into the frame buffer, that is also a key frame which may be more complicated to decode. I can't say I have noticed a pause myself though. Did you encode the bit rate on the high side? Anything over 8000 will trouble an iPad2.

The 3GS will struggle at that resolution as will a lot of androids. iPad2 handles that depending on bit rate, as I mentioned.

So my assurances can only be based on your target device, resolution and bit rate.

 

Thanks! Looks fine now

 

When I set loop to false the whole application will freeze at the end of the video. I'm not getting any logs but I'll check my build settings perhaps I'll find something there.

 

Sorry, my fault. Infinite loop if you didn't have a onFinished delegate.

Fixed in the attached version. View attachment $MobileMovieTexture.cs

 

@DanTreble

So what's the biggest impact on frame rate barring size? Would reducing the bitrate help speed up playback? We currently use Miro to convert our images but there aren't any settings persay... Would it be better to ffmpeg2theora them?

 

Bitrate

Yup

The one that lets you control bitrate is better

It has all kinds of switches I haven't yet explored for maximising size/quality.

Code (csharp):

1. ffmpeg2theora-0.28.exe rukou_ya.ogv -o rukou_yasmall.ogv -V 3600 --optimize --two-pass

 

Is there ANYWAY to get transparency working well on movies? Right now we have issue getting anything to look worth anything at all. Basically the problem we have is that a lot of our source videos "had" transparency in them... but when we move over to theora we have to put them on black (or a color). So i tried setting up say a blue bg.. but the animated pieces have transparency on them and pickup said colors. Is there anyway to get a good fidelity transparency?

 

I just wrote a shader for another client to solve this problem. PM me and I'll mail you the package.

 

I am debating on whether or not to buy this. I have alot of different movies that i would need to play, thus i cannot package them in my apk. This plugin sounds crazy good for what i need (need to play movie on a small portion of layout) but I use assetBundles since they are a bit more secure than just storing images, models, and etc than just placing them in the persitant path as anyone with a rooted android device will be able to take them. Now is the problem with asset bundles that your plugin does not support playing a video from an asset bundle or is it that movies cannot be stored in an asset bundle (which i havent seen written anywhere). And if so how is a video being in an asset bundle different than a video being compressed in an apk? As as far as i can tell asset bundles have the same compression and settings are the videos do in android.

Also videos can be changed at runtime right? (eg: scene started with an empty video plane, obtain some variables from previous scene and play a video based on those variables)

 

Hi Raigex, I've been in that exact situation.
Anyway, there are several ways to solve this issue, I've done the following:
A. read here http://developer.android.com/guide/google/play/expansion-files.html about expansion files and how to use them with your android app.
B. You can use the "Google Play OBB Downloader" that is now in the AssetStore to request and download your main OBB expansion file from the Google servers(saves a lot of headache).
C. use a zip .net lib to extract your compressed expansion file at runtime. I used http://www.icsharpcode.net/opensource/sharpziplib/ to extract the OBB file that I have compressed previously(which contains all my OGV files). Extract them to the correct location that the expansion files guide tells you to. here's a block of code which returns that correct path-

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. private string GetPathToApplicationExternalData()
3.     {
4. #if UNITY_ANDROID  !UNITY_EDITOR
5.         using (AndroidJavaClass cls_UnityPlayer = new AndroidJavaClass("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer"))
6.         {
7.             using (AndroidJavaObject obj_Activity = cls_UnityPlayer.GetStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("currentActivity"))
8.             {
9.                 using(AndroidJavaObject fileDir = obj_Activity.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("getExternalFilesDir", ""))
10.                 {
11.                     return fileDir.Call<string>("getAbsolutePath") + "/";
12.                 }
13.             }
14.         }
15. #endif
16.         return string.Empty;
17.     }
18.  

D. In order for MobileMovieTexture plugin to support playing the files located elsewhere(rather than StreamingAssets) and are now not part of the apk you'll have to change 2 blocks of code in MobileMovieTexture.cs and AssetStream.cs-
in AssetStream.cs:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2.  public static string GetApkPath()
3.     {
4. #if UNITY_ANDROID  !UNITY_EDITOR
5.     //use this instead for loading files from external SD card
6.     using (AndroidJavaClass cls_UnityPlayer = new AndroidJavaClass("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer"))
7.         {
8.             using (AndroidJavaObject obj_Activity = cls_UnityPlayer.GetStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("currentActivity"))
9.             {
10.                 using(AndroidJavaObject fileDir = obj_Activity.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("getExternalFilesDir", ""))
11.                 {
12.                     return fileDir.Call<string>("getAbsolutePath") + "/";
13.                 }
14.             }
15.         }
16. #else //UNITY_ANDROID  !UNITY_EDITOR
17.         return "";
18. #endif //UNITY_ANDROID  !UNITY_EDITOR
19.     }
20.  

in MobileMovieTexture.cs, in the Open() function, inside the #if UNITY_ANDROID block change the last line to:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. m_nativeContext = OpenStream(AssetStream.GetApkPath() + m_path, 0, 0, m_loop, pot );
3.  

Now, if you've extracted all your files from within your compressed zip file into the correct folder that your changed GetApkPath function retrieves, you're all set and the OGV files will play OK.

About using Asset bundles in terms of security...you should know that asset bundles are just like zip files but are compressed with LZMA compression instead...
Also, the zip lib which I've linked to can extract password protected zips, if that helps.

Good luck.

 

@Adiel
Thanks for the info but I have decided to go another way (using android and surfaceView plugin). As the video will only be played in a single position (no transformations necessary) so it is a bit easier to use it that way.

I will keep your post in mind if I ever decide to come back to using this option for this or another project.

@DanTreble
Your plugin is great, keep up the good work.

 

It has been a while for me lurking in this topic..

A question for you guys: anyone else experiencing sync-problems when playing chromakey-videos with audio? Both are (offcourse) the same length.
Any tips/tricks I could try? The problems seems to differ depending on the hardware. (Mostly iPad2/3, iPhone4(S), Android-phones.)

 

Hey guys! It FINALLY launched We were using the Mobile Movie Texture for the iPad3 version of this site for NIKE and while that app is still being approved, you can see the app in action here:

http://nikeinc.com/news/explore-the-nike-innovation-arena#/inline/10879

If you are in the press box (first landing place), and rotate to the back of the room where there are 2 boxes, click on the one that says Nike+ Basketball to see the keyed wire animation

Thanks again for a great product!!

 

Great stuff on the website.. But I could not find the wire animation.... Can you post a pic or give a better way of finding it...?? There is a lot on the website that says nike + ....

 

Here's a screenshot of it in action:

 

Looks slick. Congratulations!

Always feels great submitting a project to the app store.

Shipping is truth

 

Hi,
well works awesome on iPad 1 !!
So does it also work on Windows Mac Standalone ?
Great Plugin !
thx

 

Thanks Muckel! It works out of the box windows standalone. Mac requires a small modification I think, it is mentioned somewhere in this thread.

 

Hi.

Can I change "Path property" or ".ogg file" on runtime?

I want to play the movie from www server.
Like this...
---------------- a C# script --------------
private WWW www = null;
public MobileMovieTexture m_movieTexture;

public void Load(string file) {
m_trackableName = trackableName;
www = new WWW("http://example.com/moviefiles/" + filename + ".ogg");
StartCoroutine(getContentCoroutine());
}

private IEnumerator getContentCoroutine() {
Debug.Log("Loading " + www.url);
yield return www;

if (www.error != null) {
return false;
}

m_movieTexture.Path = www.movie;
m_movieTexture.Play();
}
--------------------------------------------
Help me, please.

Thanks.

 

@shibomb
From my own trials of this, your best bet is to download the movie, then write the byte array into some location (preferably, Application.peristantPath + filename

then use that string path to pass video to the plugin.

 

@Raigex
Thanks for you hint!
I got a solution ;-)

Thanks.

 

Hey Dan,
can you maybe implement it in the next Update ?
I'm in progress to made many different APP's for Win Mac and i have to implement it every time...
@ Line 268

If you use Mac OS X to compress to OGG then you can best use XiphQT.
You can find it here: http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html
put the Component in Library/Components
a other great APP is iFFmpeg for Video files ... it has also great OGG support !
All this APP's working in 10.8 !

 

Sounds interesting! Do you think this will solve my problem that I've got with audio-video sync?

 

if your Video data rate is too high on low end devices than the fps drops down your sound is async...
i did no test with audio together but i saw different fps with different quality setting in the ogg encoder...
i'm not shure if there is a fixed frame rate for ogg Video in the playback component...
Normally the Video will play in the framerate you do the encoding 15-25 fps... if you use 15 maybe the async problem will gone...
because there are only 15 frames to decode in a second.... instead 25 or 30....
if it is not a high speed Video like with fast motion than 15 fps will be ok ;-)
try plz report back if it works.

 

Hello, is there any chance to know when the video looping is starting again?

I need to loop 3 times and then onfinished, it's possible?

 

Hello, can we have demo of last version?
the last version of demo dowload is 1.1.1

 

Is there a way to make it so the material starts out as black, rather than a bright pink? Sometimes there's a touch of lag before the video gets started and it's quite jarring to see that pink flash.

 

I am getting a DllNotFoundException on the Android. It was happening on PC as well until I copied the dll into the root folder of the project (outside of Assets). This solution does not seem to help on Android (yes I copied the .so file for Android as well (to multiple places))

 

The demo version was working great for me on all platforms, so last night I bought the full version, only to find that the version on the asset store does not include the fix in this thread for movies crashing when not set to loop. I now am also finding that the full version crashes my Mac right when the video tries to start playing, even though the demo version was working fine. And I have added the lines to the script that are referenced earlier in this thread for getting it to work on Mac Standalone.

Anybody else encountered this issue and found a way to fix it?

 

Oddly enough this only happens inside the Unity editor on my Mac, if I make a Mac standalone build out of the project the videos play just fine.

 

I have 2 questions:

Is there a way to change the width height of the texture? We are attempting to change the resolution of our textures on run-time using Unity3d's Quality Settings and Mipmaps. However, MobileMovieTextures do not have mipmaps, so they display at full resolution. What we would like to do is control the resolution of the video on load-time.

Also, we seem to be experiencing some bleeding. I've attached an image of this happening. Is there any known cause to this?

I appreciate your time!

 

Hi.

I bought "Mobile Movie Texture" with Asset Store of Unity and work ok in windows, the problem is in Mac OS, I have Unity 3.5.0 and your plugin doesnt downoad . I dont want update my Unity, but really want use your plugin, do you have any solution?

 

Hi,

is it possible for me to try that shader with the free version for evaluation?
I am looking for a solution that can handle transparent videos as a texture on mobile devices, and yours looks like a winner, but I have to justify my findings to my 'boss' with a working sample.

Thanks in advance!

 

Hello,
well i'm using the new Unity4... it's now official download....
So if i do Split Binary under PlayerSettings than i get a apk and a obb file.
All Stuff from Unity Side working fine.... my Videos are working and Audio too...
But my Mobile Movie Texture doesn't work because it is stored now in the obb file.
So i tryed everything to get the correct path to the Video... i'm on Unite2012 here in A'dam but also the Unity Ninjas could help me
because it has something to do with the Mobile Movie Texture Plugin...
So my Idea was to fix the Problem:
Open the apk file and store the Video that was moved in the obb file into the apk.
Than i thought it should work.... but it doesn't....!!!
If i don't split my Binary it works still fine in Unity4.
For me it's a Showstopper because my APP's are on hold because of the issue....

If someone have a Idea what i can do plz help !
Dan is not reachable via Mail.... so i'm alone in the dark with the Problem....

 

is there a way you can provide the download to 1.1.5. Its not available in the store

 

For sure, drop me a PM with a order number and your email address.

 

Hi DanTreble,
I would like to know if there is any effort to fix the Adreno crash.
It seems that every Android device with the Adreno GPU gives out a purple picture instead of the movie.

 

Thank you so much Dan !!!!
all is working fantastic now !!!!
i can really recommend this Plugin...
It works now with Unity 4 and all Platforms without any trouble !
respect kudos to the Dev

 

Does it support (Unitys missing) basic functions like:

Play ?
Stop ?
Rewind ?
Seek ?

 

Nice work on 1.1.5, i hope we can access soon to Seek, CurrentFrame and TotalFrames. Thanks

 

Hey Adiel, this is the first I have heard about this effecting anything other than the N1. What devices exhibit purple pictures?

To be honest, I do nothing more sinister than upload textures using GlSubImage, if that is broken in the GL drivers on the device, there is little I can do different :-(

 

Yes

No :-(