Video VideoPlayer cannot play url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ...

Hi,
I am trying to show a video from a url on a texture using the Video Player.
I tried several urls, some worked well but I can't seem to be able to play videos directly from their youtube URLs,

Is that happening because the URL contains more than the video itself?
Does anyone have a way to show youtube videos using the Video Player?

Thank you for your time,
Roy.

 

Hi,

Facing the same issue here, have some news ?

 

The Video Component doesn't have youtube functionality. The url should point to some video file which is either local or from a server. Since youtube doesn't use absolute urls to video's it won't work.

 

Thx for this precision

 

did any body gets any sloution for
VideoPlayer cannot play url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ...

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My question is how to stream youtube videos to unity

 

Unity's built-in VideoPlayer component cannot play youtube video's, find a plugin on the Asset Store that does support it. There is probably one out there somewhere.

 

Non of them are free.

 

Yes I am also having this problem

 

I assumed the Videoplayer component would work for youtube videos, It doesn't.

SAD TIMES

 

I am looking to play different video according to different images in my AR project.Tried many attempts like downloading them and play that video or trying to play directly from server(.mp4 and .webm videos).I created a cube(prefab) and trying to play video on it.

Code (CSharp):

1. public void OnImageChanged(ARTrackedImagesChangedEventArgs args)
2. {
3.     foreach (var trackedImage in args.added)
4.     {      
5.         isRunning = true;//Continuing to update
6.     }
7.  
8.     foreach (var trackedImage in args.updated)
9.     {
10.         //Below condition is true
11.         if (File.Exists(Application.persistentDataPath + "/video.mp4") && isRunning==true)
12.         {
13.             Debug.Log("Yes File Exits");
14.  
15.  
16.             var vp = mTrackedImagePrefab.AddComponent<VideoPlayer>();//cube prefab
17.             vp.source = VideoSource.Url;
18.             vp.url = "https://www.videvo.net/videvo_files/converted/2014_12/preview/ULTRASOUND_3.mov74497.webm";//Tried another video with mp4 format
19.             //vp.url = Application.persistentDataPath + "/video.mp4";//Play locally downloaded file-Not working
20.  
21.             vp.isLooping = true;
22.             vp.renderMode = UnityEngine.Video.VideoRenderMode.MaterialOverride;
23.             vp.targetMaterialRenderer = GetComponent<Renderer>();
24.             vp.targetMaterialProperty = "_MainTex";
25.             vp.Play();
26.             isRunning = false;//stop update
27.  
28.         }
29.  
30.     }
31. }

The error displayed is "Cannot Play a disabled VideoPlayer ".Testing-I added a video player to the prefab manually and assigned a video clip,at that time the video was playing but I want to play from a URL or download them and play it on the cube.

 

VideoPlayer

component has to be

enabled

. So make sure the

mTrackedImagePrefab

is actually active in the hierarchy before calling

Play

Also make sure webm is a supported format. I'd usually stick with mp4 as those tend to work on most platforms unless encoded wrong or too high resolution etc.

It's been a while for me since I've touced any AR stuff so, I'm not up to date with the API and processes.

mTrackedImagePrefab

is a scene instance? Is it active in the hierarchy before you request to Play?
if not then that's why you get a "Cannot Play a disabled VideoPlayer".
You could try adding

if(!mTrackedImagePrefab.activeInHierarchy) Debug.LogError("Not active in hierarchy", mTrackedImagePrefab);

As for playing videos on iOS & Android, I usually don't have any trouble playing mp4's.

To debug/test whether it is something in the AR loop or something with the video or device...
You could just create a GameObject in the scene, attach a VideoPlayer to it. Configure it how you would configure it in code and then just let it play On Awake. Build and check whether it runs or not.

Also not certain anymore if you need file:/// for the local url. But you could try it out.

 

"To debug/test whether it is something in the AR loop or something with the video or device.You could just create a GameObject in the scene, attach a VideoPlayer to it. Configure it how you would configure it in code and then just let it play On Awake. Build and check whether it runs or not."

Tried this and looks like mTrackedImagePrefab is instantiated when Image is detected.So I added the line
GameObject cubePrefab =GameObject.FindWithTag("VidPlayer"); then added video player to that cubePrefab and code to play the video and it worked.

 

Careful with FindWithTag, in this case it will work but if multiple game objects are tagged with the same tag it will try to find any game object with the tag. So it might not even be the game object you actually wanted it to be.

 

Will keep that in mind.Will constantly test if there is any issues.If any will try to find another solution

 

As you said it is causing problems...So I created a prefab and instantiated while image is detected.Now looking for the prefab (cube) to play corresponding video and it should hide when the image tracking is not there.When I show next image the cube should play video according to that image(different video) but on the same cube.Is it possible?
Read in some forums that args.removed does not give anything in return.

EDIT- I tried using dictionary.Looking to hide gamobjects which was instatiated by image.When new image is shown hiding old gameobject.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.  public void OnImageChanged(ARTrackedImagesChangedEventArgs args)
3.     {
4.  
5.         foreach (var trackedImage in args.added)
6.         {
7.             Debug.Log("Instantiate Cube");
8.             cubePrefab = Instantiate(cubeTv, trackedImage.transform);
9.  
10.             var data = allDataContent.FirstOrDefault(i => i.imgFileName == trackedImage.referenceImage.name);
11.             videoName = data.vidFileName;
12.      
13.             vp = cubePrefab.GetComponent<VideoPlayer>();
14.             vp.source = VideoSource.Url;
15.             vp.url = Application.persistentDataPath + "/" + videoName;  
16.             vp.playOnAwake = true;
17.             vp.isLooping = true;
18.             vp.renderMode = UnityEngine.Video.VideoRenderMode.MaterialOverride;
19.             vp.targetMaterialRenderer = GetComponent<Renderer>();
20.             vp.targetMaterialProperty = "_MainTex";
21.             vp.Play();
22.  
23.             holdList.Add(cubePrefab, trackedImage.referenceImage.name);//adding instantiated GamObject to Dictionary
24.            
25.         }
26.         foreach (var trackedImage in args.updated)
27.         {
28.  
29.  
30.             if (trackedImage.trackingState == TrackingState.Tracking)
31.             {
32.                 var data = allDataContent.FirstOrDefault(i => i.imgFileName == trackedImage.referenceImage.name);
33.                 videoName = data.vidFileName;
34.                 if (File.Exists(Application.persistentDataPath + "/" + videoName))
35.                 {
36.          
37.                     foreach (var v in holdList.Values)
38.                     {
39.                          GameObject go = holdList.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Value == trackedImage.referenceImage.name).Key;
40.                          if (v == trackedImage.referenceImage.name)
41.                          {
42.                  
43.                              go.SetActive(true);
44.                              continue;
45.                          }
46.                          else
47.                          {
48.                             // go.SetActive(false);// Crashing after using this
49.                  
50.                          }
51.                      }
52.                  }
53.  
54.            }
55.    
56. }
57.  

 

Hello! Maybe what you should do to make it work well is to download the video from youtube (with online app's like https://www.descargarclip.com/videos-youtube/) and then embed the already downloaded video... maybe the way you try to do it will not allow Unity. Try this way and tell us!

 

Embedding the video into the application will make the binary also fatter.
Also downloading video's from youtube probably ain't completely legal either. Sure it is possible but legal is another question. But I ain't a lawyer nor do I know the law by heart.

But yeah embedding the video would be the same as just importing any other video. Most of those should work as long as you use the encoding that goes with the target platform. If that doesn't work you should file a bug report.
I've filed so many bug reports over the years and they have fixed quite a lot because of those. So yeah it does help! Maybe not at the pace you want it to, I mean sometimes it takes them a month or 2 to fix the issue but the process behind it is slow.

In my case the VideoPlayer is often broken, at the moment on WebGL for playing from a url and on Android for the Oculus GO, multiple video's playing at the same time on separate objects you get that video's are cross playing. Meaning it is completely random which texture they take. Video A could be playing on GameObject B for a few frames and then suddenly Video B takes over GameObject B. As if the video player is taking the wrong texture pointer or the video player is writing only to 1 texture which unity reads from. It is one hell of a bug.

 

I guess you can instead try using the embed code in the page just like what i have tried on mycfavisit portal which is actually working without any kind of issues and it works for you too I guess.

 

That totally depends on the platform. If it is WebGL then yes you could possibly embed it into the native browser page instead of Unity.