For Clarity: Can I use a QT Movie as a texture in a Unity Pro iPad app?

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Read a bunch of posts, some too old to be relevant, so for the sake of clarity…

Is it possible to use a QT movie (even a short 50-70 frames), as a video texture in a IOS app build in Unity Pro 3.1(or higher)?

thanks,
B.

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I’m not sure if Unity handles actual video-- but we successfully implemented a workaround by exporting a vid as a bunch of png still frames (in after effects), then adding to a texture in Unity with Sprite Manager 2. Worked fine on an iphone. Of course, that doesn’t take into consideration synching sound which we didn’t need.

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That would actually be my preference, trying to use the ‘Super Sprite’ feature and spanning the images across a bunch of game objects. But I have 72 400x400 images to play. so, I’d be looking at 18 GO’s with 1024x1024 sprite sheets on em. This heavy load would only exit for the duration of a ‘You win!’ type screen and the user hits the ‘next’ button. But I am pretty sure it would be too heavy a load, which is why I was wondering about QT movie as a texture.

Did you use Supersprite?

thanks,
B.

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There is no video texture support at all on iOS unless you implement it yourself.

iOS does not expose the possibility to play movies to a texture target so you would have to copy it each frame or not use hardware acceleration, both being significant cpu impactwise

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You can play movies, but only as standard movies, not on a 3D object.

–Eric

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Thanks for the confirmation, Guys. Will explore SuperSprite, see if it breaks my bank so to speak.

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Prime31’s AR plugin textures a live video feed onto a cube… but it’s probably a series of images, not a raw video feed?