[RELEASED] NexPlayer Video Plugin for Unity - Bring Video Streaming Into Unity Apps (Android & iOS)

The premium video streaming player for Unity games and apps!

NexPlayer is a cross-platform video streaming player that supports both regular and 360 video playback on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch™, Xbox One S/X, Xbox Series X/S, UWP, VR Headsets, and WebGL.

The only Video Player Plugin that supports HLS & DASH streaming with Widevine DRM protection for Unity games and apps on Android & iOS.

The most advanced WebGL video streaming plugin with HLS & DASH support for Unity WebGL apps. It enables high quality and seamless video experience in every browser.​

‍‍Easy to use, market proven and fully optimized over more than 15 years.
NexPlayer for Unity was developed entirely in-house in collaboration with the native NexPlayer™ SDK. Therefore, it is fully customizable for personalized use cases and we can add any desired feature.

For more information or to request a demo, please contact us on our Website or send an email to contact.unity@nexplayer.com




Supported Platforms




Supported Platforms & Graphics APIs

• Android
  • OpenGLES2, OpenGLES3
• iOS
  • Metal
• Windows
  • DirectX11 / DirectX12
• macOS
  • Metal
• Nintendo Switch™
  • NVN
• Android VR Headsets
  • OpenGLES2, OpenGLES3
• WebGL
  • WebGL 1.0 / WebGL 2.0
• Xbox One S, Xbox One X
  • DirectX11 / DirectX12
• Xbox Series X/S
  • DirectX11 / DirectX12
• Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
  • DirectX11 / DirectX12

Features

• MP4 progressive download and playback
• HLS & DASH Streaming with ABR (Adaptive Bitrate)
• Support for H-264 and H-265 Video Codecs
• HLS with AES 128 encryption
  
• Widevine DRM protection for Android & iOS
• Server-Side & Client-Side Ad Insertion
  
• 360 Video Playback and Virtual Reality (VR) for Google Cardboard, HTC, Daydream and Oculus, Meta Quest..
  
• Up to 8K (UHD) Resolution
  
• Windows & macOS Editor
• Multi-Stream (stream multiple live events on one screen): Android & iOS
  
• Multi-View (stream live event from different camera standpoints on one screen): Android & iOS
  
• Offline Streaming Playback for HLS & DASH
  
• Rendering Videos on 2D & 3D Objects
• Adjustable Buffering Time
• Subtitle support (ex. SRT, SMI, WebVTT)
  
• Closed Captioning support (ex. CEA-608/708)
• Multiple Audio & Subtitle Track Selection
• Content Information and Statistics (Audio & Video Bitrate, Codec, Average FPS, etc.)
• Metadata: ID3 tags

​

Our Unity video plugin allows the introduction of new exciting use cases within your Unity projects. With our plugin, you can use in-game actions and objects to modify video content.

If you have any questions please feel free to post under this thread. We will get back to you shortly.

Please see our GitHub Page for a more in-depth feature list, supported platforms, and a demo installation guide.

Frequently Asked Question (FAQ):

• Can I play YouTube streams with the plugin?
• No!
  Note that the plugin can’t play YouTube or other video streams if you don’t own the proper content rights.

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Id like to request a demo please I cannot seem to purchase the asset anywhere

 

Hi,
For the demo you only need to click website.

 

Can it play on windows builds and webGL builds ? And how can someone get it ? Or is it just a demo and not released

 

Can the plugin be used for live streaming?

 

Hi @aninoit , yes it supports live streaming in HLS and DASH formats.

 

Hello @NexPlayer_Unity.
May I check your asset demo version?
And could I know how much does it cost?

Thanks,
best regards

 

Hello @MaxForUnity

Please contact us on our Website or send an email to support.madrid@nexplayer.com to request a Unity demo SDK and we will answer to your question.

Thanks and best regards.

 

Hi,
Can you confirm if the plugin can play Live streaming videos from youtube or any other service on hololens ?

 

Hello @madhurg

We are compatible with any server as long as it's DASH or HLS streams.
We will check Hololens in the future. At the moment we support AR technologies like Vuforia and other VR devices.

Thanks and best regards.

 

Hey,
I want to make a prefab for android app enable to stream Oculus to android app.
Is that possible ?

 

Hello @LDVMULTIMEDIA ,

Please contact us at support.madrid@nexplayer.com and we will further help you with this question.

Thanks and best regards.

 

Hello @NexPlayer_Unity. Is it possbile to use your player with Unity DOTS. I mean with URP and play video on texture of object which created from DOTS and rendering by hybrid render ?

 

Hi @Ylly-avvyland , we plan the support of DOTS for Q4 2021. Thanks for your interest. We do support URP but not with DOTS yet.

 

Price?

 

Hi, excuse the lack of user knowledge, I'm fresh into Unity. I am trying to set the player as world space to view videos on a small computer screen in game. Do I need to set the manager as a child of the computer screen?

 

Hello @ISLQ123. That is not necessary, you only need to set the according "Render Mode" and the in-game computer screen as the target in "Media Output" in the manager.

 

I filled out [one of the] forms on your website last night, to contact you for further information -- really, mainly just for pricing, since the rest is pretty well laid out in the marketing materials & documentation. I haven't heard back yet, looking forward to hearing further info/pricing (and to seeing it be functional, heh - see below).

That said... the sample did not work in my testing.

BUG REPORT
I tested your trial package [the one here in the asset store] and the "simple" example is not working; it hard-crashes the editor immediately upon entering play mode.

DETAILS
Editor version: 2021.1.27f1
Platform: macOS Big Sur (11.6)
Computer: Mac Pro 2019 w/ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB GPU

REPRO STEPS
Create a new empty project that uses built-in renderer.
Import your asset via package manager.
Follow your docs to setup the "Simple" player.
Add a GO w/ a RawImage component to the scene.
Assign the RawImage reference to your player component, change dropdown to 'RawImage'
Leave everything else as default (ie the default streaming URL)
Click 'play' button to enter play mode
RESULT: The editor crashes immediately. Reproduces every time (well, I went 3-for-3).

LMK if I'm doing something wrong or if you have a fix in the pipeline. Thanks!

Feel free to email me directly if you prefer: arthur@lvgamedev.com

 

Hi Arthur, we are updating our package at the asset store these days with nice optimizations, the demo license is not active at the moment. We will reach out to you to provide a demo while it is being updated at the store.

 

@NexPlayer_Unity, we had a hard crash in editor as well! And we also is interesting in price. Would be nice if we could run a demo just to compare a performance from what we build on our own (good 4K-8K 360 video player is what we are looking for)

 

FYI -- After our post above, we did receive an email from NexPlayer. Unfortunately, they had to update their marketing materials & remove their support for "low latency streaming" as their Unity plugin is not currently capable of it.

They did send up an updated Unity package that worked on desktop, though (it only crashed once at least, though may have been user/config error). Unfortunately low-latency streaming support was a requirement for our project, so we aren't able to consider their product at this time.

On positive side -- once we were able to make contact w/ them via email, the communications with them were quick and detailed, which I appreciated. They were also quite receptive to feedback. And they quoted us a price, too.

 

@NexPlayer_Unity Hello. I want to get and display YouTube's real-time live streaming in Unity, but is it possible with this asset?
And I don't have a business account, so please tell me how to get a demo. thank you

 

Interesting, but without a price listed, it seems not approachable for indie developers - what's a pity.
Will search for some other solution, then.

 

Hi, To purchase a license plz contact us on our Website.

 

Very interesting, and we will contact you for further information... but god damn , show price on website guys... that could cost 50€ or 50000€, this old way to make marketing is hard to understand.. maybe they adapt the price by user.. this is not legal in my country... btw

 

I can't play an audio by url it can´t run in the background how can i do that?

 

Dear jonatanvargas,
Plz try with our latest player version at the store: https://assetstore.unity.com/packag...eo-streaming-player-with-drm-free-demo-197902
It includes Integration Guide inside:

 

Hello, I'm testing NexPlayerSimple using the latest version on the asset store, with Unity 2021.3.4 on PC.
When I build to webgl, I get the following javascript error:
Uncaught ReferenceError: NexPlayerStatus is not defined
at NexPlayerUnity.js:15:200
And I don't see the video.
The project works fine in the Unity Editor (I do see the video playing).

I checked in the NexPlayer Build Configuration window and don't see anything suspicious.

Here is what I have in the html page:
<script src="https://nexplayer.nexplayersdk.com/8.0.0/nexplayer.js"></script>
<script src="https://d1s68t328djb4k.cloudfront.net/webgl/v2.3.2/NexPlayerUnity.js"></script>
<!-- <script src="js/NexPlayerUnity.js"></script> -->
I looked at those js files and NexPlayerStatus indeed isn't defined anywhere...

Am I missing something?

 

Hello,
We can't reproduce your error. Could you plz send us your project with that error to unity.support@nexplayer.com? We can check it. Thanks

 

Uncaught ReferenceError: NexPlayerStatus is not defined at NexPlayerUnity.js:15:200

That's what I get in the browser console.

Where is NexPlayerStatus defined ? It is nowhere to be found in https://d1s68t328djb4k.cloudfront.net/webgl/v2.3.2/NexPlayerUnity.js nor https://nexplayer.nexplayersdk.com/8.0.0/nexplayer.js
I don't understand how you can't reproduce this error

 

Could that be related to the fact that I need a licence or something, to test a WebGL build ? I just took your demo package from the assetstore

 

Could you plz contact us at unity.support@nexplayer.com?
Unfortunately, we can't reproduce your error and none of our clients have this issue.

 

Hi, I'm evaluating this product for webgl builds.

I'm getting this error (image attached):

"ReferenceError: setWebGLKey is not defined"

Steps to reproduce:

1. Import the package from the Unity Asset Store using the package manager.
2. Follow the instructions here: https://github.com/NexPlayer/NexPlayer_Unity_Plugin/#example-using-material-override
3. Switch platform to web gl
4. Build
5. Works in editor but in browser throws this error

Is there a work around? Do we need to a key possibly to test actual builds outside of the editor? Is there a way to get a temp key?

 

Hi, Please go to NexPlayer -> Build Configuration Window -> WebGL and select all the options there. Thank you

 

Hello, does NexPlayer support playback of locally downloaded HLS DRM Widevine videos on Android?
I saw "Offline DRM for Local Playback" feature in description on AssetStore. When I've tried to place simple, not encrypted HLS video (.m3u8 file and .ts video parts) to local storage on Android device and tried to play .m3u8 file, caught NOT_SUPPORT_MEDIA error


P.S do you have some documentation or tutorial of "How to setup Offline DRM for Local Playback"?

 

Hi I want to test the Nexplayer Build in demo I have Requested the Demo from your website but they didn't reached out to me.
Also the Demo License key is Not working.
Is there Any help regarding to this?////