Build crashing when loading video textures (not in the Editor)

Unity Engine
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Hi there,

First off, sorry if this does not belong here (I wasn’t sure about posting it in this forum or in Scripting). I have an empty scene that contains 2 videos, the Epilogue of the game (skippable) and the Credits (skipping leads to MainMenu). I had those cutscenes added to the scene, but the build always crashed when loading it, so I now tried loading them from Resources, but it is also crashing. Both cutscenes (very long, and at a 1080p resolution) are a 400MB total in weight, but the computer is not, by any chance, running out ot RAM, so maybe it is a bandwidth issue?

I load all the scenes through an empty scene with a progress animated icon, it unloads the previous scene and assets and then loads asynchronously the next one. Here’s my code for the cutscenes in case it helps:

void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(LoadCutscene());
    }

IEnumerator LoadCutscene()
    {
        ResourceRequest resourceRequest = Resources.LoadAsync<MovieTexture> ("Cutscenes/Epilogue");

        while (!resourceRequest.isDone) {
            yield return null;
        }

        if(resourceRequest.isDone)
        {
            movie = (MovieTexture) resourceRequest.asset;
  
            StartPlay();
        }
    }

void StartPlay()
    {
        cinematic_canvas.material.SetTexture("_MainTex",movie);
        cinematic_canvas.material.SetColor("_Color",Color.white);

        _mt = (MovieTexture)cinematic_canvas.material.GetTexture("_MainTex");
        if(_mt != null)
            _mt.Play();

        _cutscenePlaying = true;
        StartCoroutine(LoadCredits());
    }

IEnumerator LoadCredits()
    {
        ResourceRequest resourceRequest = Resources.LoadAsync<MovieTexture> ("Cutscenes/EndCredits");

        while (!resourceRequest.isDone) {
            yield return null;
        }

        if(resourceRequest.isDone)
            cMovie = (MovieTexture) resourceRequest.asset;
    }

Do you know what might I be doing wrong? Thanks for your time.

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I hate to be the barer of bad news, but you really, really gotta not use MovieTextures. Here’s why:

On the Manual page for movie textures, they say “Video files are imported via Apple QuickTime” … “On Windows movie importing requires Quicktime to be installed”. So basically, users must have quicktime installed to run unity games that have MovieTextures. Unity - Manual: Movie Textures

In April, Apple announced that they no longer support QuickTime for Windows, meaning they will no longer update security and other features. This creates a huge vulnerability in Windows and opens up your Windows computer to potential viruses or the possibility of having your information stolen. It is unsafe for a Windows computer to have QuickTime anymore. http://blog.trendmicro.com/urgent-call-action-uninstall-quicktime-windows-today/

So I hate to say it, but you should not use MovieTextures unless you’re building a game exclusively for mac.

Check the asset store for add-ons that allow you to play videos without quicktime. They’ll likely cost money, but MovieTextures are not an option anymore.

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