how to play video from adressable assetbundle on android

Unity Engine
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so there seem to be a lot of probems with playing videos from assetbundles on android, i tried to create a uncompressed adressables assetbundlegroup for the videos only but they would not load anyway.
now i am wondering what would be the default way of loading videos via adressables on android?

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There’s an engine bug that prevents this. Unity Issue Tracker - [Android] Loading videos from AssetBundles fails unless it's uncompressed and loaded from file

depending on how this plays out, we are exploring ways to have addressables utilize some workaround.

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Any updates?

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looks like someone decided this bug was “as designed”. which means we need to now design a workaround. We’ve got it in the backlog. Not yet sure what our plan is, but we’ll put something out there.

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Any update on this? I’ve hit a roadblock with this issue. Documentation points to use CacheInitializationSettings but it just prevents Addressables from properly initializing at all. More details here .

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Hey! Are there any updates?

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I keep the Android version of my video in StreamingAssets and load it with that API.

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I have too many videos (about 300mb), streaming assets don’t look cool here.

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The issue with CacheInitializationSettings has since been resolved. Just follow the docs, disable compression for the AssetGroup with videos and you should be ok.

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But if you disable compression you might as well use StreamingAssets…
And you loose compression on other platform as well (iOS for example).

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There is no point compressing the bundle with videos which are themselves already compressed by the codec. (compression ratio is almost 100%)

The benefits of using Addressable videos vs StreamingAssets:

  • Reference video clips natively vs loading by some hard-coded file names
  • Easily move your video bundles to content server w/o changing any code
  • Use consistent way to manage assets, less extra complexity etc. (assuming you’re already using Addressables in the project)
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Hi, I’m facing issues with addressable videos on Android being downloaded from a CDN server.

I have the CacheInitializationSettings compression unchecked as well as the addressable itself to be uncompressed. However I’m still facing the following error:
AndroidVideoMedia::OpenExtractor could not translate archive:/CAB-5338c39097d925b8c3995b6501e678de/CAB-5338c39097d925b8c3995b6501e678de.resource to local file. Make sure file exists, is on disk (not in memory) and not compressed.

Versions used are:
Unity 2019.4.3f1
Addressables 1.8.5

Any other idea or solutions for this? Here are my settings for my addressables

508Ă—577 32.1 KB

504Ă—658 36.2 KB

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Hi all just to update on the situation. I’ve managed to get the addressable videos working from a remote server by upgrading Addressables to version 1.16.6.

I’ve also included this code in the Awake() function of my video downloader

 private void Awake()
    {
        Caching.ClearCache();
        Caching.compressionEnabled = false;
    }
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you can try to use
Caching.compressionEnabled = false;
before you load these videos.

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