I can get the movie imported/playing fine, but the problem is the loss of quality. Basically, I'm building a movie player (where you can cycle between the films) and need to get the best quality/less pixelization out of them (filesize is no issue). I've tried maxing out the "quality" slider, but it doesnt seem to help. Is there a certain size/format that works best with unity? (I know it naturally converts the file when I import it) I'm just displaying the movie on a plane with the same aspect ratio in unity if that helps.
I did some research after asking this and Unity converts videos to a format called ogg theora....and if you do it yourself (aka. use a converting program - found Miro Video Converter is super simple) before importing it into Unity...it keeps the quality 100%. Sure, I'll have to convert all my videos to this....but its a small price to pay to get videos looking that crisp in Unity.
If you dont want to convert them, I found .mov files are the best looking (though compared to OGG theora, the framerate was a little slow...but it might have been the settings I used to convert it). AVI/MP4 files though, always looked like crap.
Start with the best quality video you can. I find uncompressed AVI and MOV work best for me. Various codecs can kill quality.
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