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How to use video files twice: Once as Resources and once as StreamingAssets
I have a couple .mp4
videos which play fine on Standalone when loading them from Resources Folder via Resources.Load<MovieTexture>("videoname")
. They also play fine on Mobile when loading from StreamingAssets folder via Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie("videoname.ext")
.
Mobile does not support MovieTexture
and Standalone does not support Handheld
. So in Order for this to work on Standalone and Mobile, I would need to duplicate the video files which would result in having the same video files in both folders (Resources and StreamingAssets). This is redundant and I would like to avoid this.
Is there a simple solution for that? Can you somehow merge those folders or similar? Or maybe I can specify to ommit one or another folder when deploying for a certain platform?
I know you can not Resources.Load
from StreamingAssets and you can not Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie
from Resources (one of both would solve this problem). I also know about loading videos from StreamingAssets via WWW
class, but this only supports .ogv
which in return is not supported by mobile.
Cheers, phineliner
P.S.: I know that there are Plugins like AVPro, but I'm a student and this is a university project, so I don't want to spend 200 bucks for a plugin ;)
edit:
In case I have the files duplicated (distributed to the two folders), I can not build for Mobile anymore: 'MovieTexture' is not supported when building for Android.
. It's giving me this error because I have the imported video file inside of the Resources folder. Can I somehow tell to ignore the videos of the resources folder while deploying for mobile? They aren't used in that case either... In code I can use #if UNITY_ANDROID
to hide code containing MovieTexture
, but how can I do this in the editor itself? I can avoid this by using WWW
and load an .ogv
video from StreamingAssets, but this would also mean that I need two files for the same video (one .mp4
and one .ogv
).
Did you ever have any luck with this? I'm wondering the exact same question at the moment. I have different video-player solutions depending on the platform, but I can't find a way to gracefully handle the fact that iOS for example needs the videos to be in S$$anonymous$$$$anonymous$$gAssets but for standalone/PC builds I want it in the Resources folder. As you said, having a video in the Resources folder cases the iOS build to not compile, and I don't see an easy way to "exclude" it (even though I never reference it, the compiler doesn't care).
Answer by mdespault · Feb 23, 2016 at 02:29 PM
I re-posted a similar question and ended up finding a solution that worked for me anyway:
http://answers.unity3d.com/answers/1146086/view.html
I think my answer is awaiting moderation, but hopefully will be up soon. In a nutshell, I ended up storing my videos in AssetBundles to bypass the iOS MovieTexture compile errors
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