Download and Play Video during Gameplay

Unity Engine
1

I was working on quiz game and for which for few video questions, I required to download a video file and play it on the screen so a person can able to give answer for the question.

Before quiz game start, I want to pre-download the video file so when question will come up, it will directly start playing a video.

I don’t want to save the video file because its not required, just runtime I want to pre-load the video file and play it.

This is test video MP4 file link, files already uploaded on web server.

I don’t know how to achieve this so please guide me for this, thank for your effort to read this question.

2

Tried some approaches on Google already?
https://www.google.com/search?q=unity+stream+video+from+url

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3

After doing some Google efforts I can able to play a single video using Video Player component.
This kind of code I have written:

public class VideoDownloaderTest : MonoBehaviour
{
    VideoPlayer videoPlayer;

    private void Awake()
    {
        videoPlayer = GetComponent<VideoPlayer>();
    }

    private void Start()
    {
        videoPlayer.Prepare();
        videoPlayer.errorReceived += VideoPlayer_errorReceived;
        videoPlayer.prepareCompleted += VideoPlayer_PrepareCompleted;
    }

    private void VideoPlayer_errorReceived(VideoPlayer source, string message)
    {
        Debug.Log("message: " + message);
    }

    private void VideoPlayer_PrepareCompleted(VideoPlayer source)
    {
        Debug.Log("video loading complete...");
        videoPlayer.Play();
    }
}

This is working properly, its playing on the spot, as I execute videoPlayer.Play() method.
For single video this is working properly but can I make multiple video players?
Because I am working on quiz game so multiple video questions will come.

4

Can you not just change the video player URL value?

5

Basically I want to preload all my videos so I required different Video Players for each URL.

6

The Video Player is just a component… I don’t see why you can’t just put each one on a different Video Player component.

7

Yes, I mean the same, I have to create separate game object and video player component for each url, I have so I preload them.

GameObject videoPlayerObj = new GameObject("VideoPlayer");
videoPlayer = videoPlayerObj.AddComponent<VideoPlayer>();

Now am I correct? or doing some mistakes