Resolved Quest 2 VideoPlayer from URL is White

I'm trying to load a video from a URL at runtime in VR on the Quest 2 and display it on a texture.

I've put the file location in the URL of the videoplayer and it works fine in the Unity Editor, but when I build for the Quest the video does not load into the texture and play.

I think what I need to find out is where Unity is storing the video file on the Quest. I can't find it any where! I've used adb's find command to search the external storage, and looked in the Application.persistentDataPath but I can't find it.

Any advice on what I'm doing wrong?

 

Ok, so I finally found a way to make this work... I downloaded the video to the persistent storage first, and then set the path (URL) using downloadHandler, finally set the URL to that location.

Something like this...

Code (CSharp):

1. var webRequest = UnityWebRequest.Get(url);
2. string path = Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, file_name + ".mp4");
3. webRequest.downloadHandler = new DownloadHandlerFile(path);
4. yield return webRequest.SendWebRequest();
5. if (webRequest.result == UnityWebRequest.Result.Success)
6. {
7.         videoPlayer.url = path;
8.  
9.         Debug.Log("File successfully downloaded and saved to " + path);
10.  
11.         StartCoroutine(PlayVideo());
12. }

 

It is unfortunate the video file must be downloaded and stored on the Quest 2 before playing. As you know, the video streams fine in the Unity editor. That is, when the player's source is set to VideoSource.URL and the URL is set to a valid MP4 URL. Having to download the file rather than streaming is not viable for me since I deal with many large videos. Do you prefer streaming? If so, have you found any alternatives to allow for streaming?

 

I had the same issue, the video player did not play the video when fetched from a URL. In my case the URL was a (http) and not (https). So adding the following in the AndroidManifest fixed it for me.

android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"