movie texture never ready to play

I am trying to load a movie file using a WWW object and then make it a texture of a material and then play it back. The WWW object seems to load the movie texture without error, but when I check isReadyToPlay for the movie texture it is always false. I am certain that the URL is correct (it is a local file URL and I have confirmed that it is correct). Has anyone else seen this before? Does anyone know a workaround? I need to load the file from a URL. I've tried several movie files in different formats (that work as regular movie textures when not being loaded using a WWW object). Here is the code:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. using UnityEngine;
3. using System.Collections;
4.  
5. public class AssetBundleMovieTest : MonoBehaviour {
6.     private string url = "file:///C:/Users/monkey/Downloads/Delta.mpg";
7.     private MovieTexture movieTexture;
8.  
9.     void Start() {
10.         StartCoroutine(LoadMovie());
11.     }
12.  
13.     void Update() {
14.         if (movieTexture != null && movieTexture.isReadyToPlay) {
15.             // this never gets called
16.             Debug.Log("The movie is ready to play");
17.         }  
18.     }
19.  
20.     private IEnumerator LoadMovie() {
21.         WWW www = new WWW(url);
22.         yield return www;
23.         movieTexture = www.movie;
24.         if (movieTexture != null) {
25.             // this gets called
26.             Debug.Log("Loaded the movie texture");
27.         }
28.     }
29. }
30.  

 

http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WWW-movie.html

According to the documentation, www.movie must be in ogg format. There are lots of online/free converters for ogg files.

Unity plays movies from other formats when they are not loaded via www because it has an internal method for converting to ogg - When it's playing, its actually reading its ogg file.

I'd highly recommend AVPro Windows Media if you are working on windows only - It's very performant, and relatively simple to use. Failing that, AVPro Quicktime is a good multi-platform option. Both have free demos online.

 

Thanks DigitalSalmon, you are correct the format was wrong. It had to be ogv. I overlooked that in the documentation.

 

I am using ogv format already , But still its not loading ever,
I am converting files to ogv using this website : http://www.online-convert.com/
not sure what's going wrong , i am using Unity Plus edition 5.6 on macOsX .
Please help,
Regards,

 

MovieTexture is obsolete (and was always terrible TBH). Unity 5.6 has a new VideoPlayer class which is much better and much easier to use; use that instead.

 

But for some reason.. I try to use it.. and it simply doesnt work with throwing the following error in console.
"Player failed to load "https://www.w3schools.com/html/mov_bbb.ogg"

or Unity crashes completely with this other url: http://techslides.com/demos/sample-videos/small.ogv

 

I don't see ogg listed here, so maybe that's what's causing the error: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/VideoSources-FileCompatibility.html

By that same table, it looks like ogv should've worked. If it's a hard Unity crash, maybe you should file a bug report with Unity.