[SOLVED] Importing huge videos into Unity

Hi there! I am building a 360-degree video app that projects a MovieTexture onto a sphere. However, I'm having trouble importing the rather large video texture (150MB). Unity always hangs and the loading icon continues indefinitely.

I can force-quit Unity and restart to continue working, but I get this message after the restart:

Force-quitting also seems to corrupt the file. The asset icon is different (it's a Quicktime logo instead of a "filmstrip"), I can't expand it to see the embedded audio clip, and when I try to assign it as a MovieTexture, it's not displayed in the asset list dialog.

When I try the above with smaller files, they successfully import, and I can use them no problem. Same settings, just a shorter video.

Has anybody encountered this before, and do you have any fixes or workarounds? I am using Unity 4.6.4f on OSX 10.10.2.

 

Nevermind! The solution was to let Unity chug away overnight. It does successfully import the large video file after about an hour.

 

Have you solved playing MovieTexture on Android? Or you are not deployong on Android at all?

 

Yes, I used the EasyMovieTexture plugin. It's messy and the documentation sucks, but it gets the job done.

 

Yea ok. Im trying to get around that.

 

@Tronno
At import time, Unity converts the video to ogg vorbis.
If you author your video to ogg vorbis, you'll have instant imports.

 

You can also do the conversion from commandline (can see the progressbar there and could run multiple of these)

Code (CSharp):

1. ..Unity5\Editor\Data\Tools\QuicktimeTools.exe "transcode" "-input" "yourvideo.mp4" "-output" "yourvideo.ogg" "-vbr" "4100000.000000" "-abr" "156000.000000"

 

In my opinion, the best way to do that is leaving the movie out of the project, loading it at runtime with EasyMovieTexture.
Importing a huge movie in Unity requires a very long time, as you discovered, and could also cause crashes as the project size grows over a certain limit.