Video Playing video during loading of scene

Hi!

What you are describing is a fairly reasonable workflow, but the current graphics design in Unity forces texture updates to happen from the main thread. Video decoding is already happening on other threads (job system or in threads owned by the OS libraries doing the decoding), but scheduling the refresh of the drawing that includes the latest video frame still has to happen from the main thread, which means the game loop must still run at a stable rate. So if the scene loading happens to use too much of the main thread (or too much of the background threads), then the video playback will be interrupted as you are describing.

Async scene loading is meant to help with what you are doing, so it would be interesting to see, via profiler, what is causing the hiccups. You can either investigate this yourself (and maybe find and fix this on your end) or submit a bug with a possibly simplified scene that reproduces the problem and we can see if anything can be improved on our end.

Thanks for letting us know about this; hope this can be improved!

Dominique Leroux
A/V developer at Unity