Movie Texture - using ffmpeg or VLC to "decode" movie instead of QuickTime?

The would work just as well as QuickTime and probably even better since for example VLC has support for much many more formats than QuickTime does. That is, unless Unity has some weird arrangement with Apple. I am mostly unaffected by whether or not it is using QuickTime as had to install it because some of my favorite streaming sites thought it would be a cool idea to require QuickTime plugin for some movies and giving flash-based player for others.

But I can see why other people may not want to install Apple's bloatware unless they actually have to.

And as software dev, I know that ffmpeg or VLC could just as well decode movies into separate audio stream and video stream for using in Unity, probably offering more supported video formats while at it.

So why they are still using outdated QuickTime?

 

Maybe because Unity started on the Mac?

 

Is it just me that finds 1080p MovieTextures lag on anything that's not a dedicated desktop GPU? Not doing anything fancy, just an empty scene with a movietexture on a plane, with a camera pointing at it, and any user in on inbuilt GPU sees it at a jittery 5fps or so. Needless to say, it's kind of ridiculous.

 

That may be. But outdated solutions need to be replaced when there are obviously better ones available.

 

unity wont import video for me at all .. (well at least .mp4) it always errors.. (windows 8.1?)

i tried VLC and it gave crappy quality... lol i used some online site to do it...

anything that can convert to theora ogg file

 

To import movie texture, you need QuickTime installed (which, despite its name is actually pretty slow). This thread isn't about video conversion. It's about Unity using technologies that may at one point or another be valid, but now they are old and outdated. It's kinda like clinging to Windows 98 now.

 

Sorry for posting in this old thread that i found by accident, but I'm working on a VLC mediaplayer for Unity plugin. Check out this thread http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/vlc-player-for-unity.387372/ for a working demo version. Hope it helps.

 

Thanks, and yes, it really does!