iPhoneUtils.PlayMovie won't pause Unity immediately

Unity Engine
1

Hi,

the function iPhoneUtils.PlayMovie won’t pause Unity3D immediately. It takes a couple of undefined msec until Unity3D relay going into pause. ( see documentation for iPhoneUtils.PlayMovie )

How much time need iPhoneUtils.PlayMovie until Unity3d is goint into pause?

This is important for me to know when i can load the next scene.

Thanks

2

I was having the same problems you are having today. But after a bit of digging around, I found that this seems to work. This is C# though…not sure how it’s done in Javascript if you use that.

	IEnumerator Start()
	{
		yield return null;
		iPhoneUtils.PlayMovie("yourmovie.m4v", Color.white, iPhoneMovieControlMode.CancelOnTouch);
		Application.LoadLevel("theleveltoload");
	}

The magic trick seems to be using Start() as a coroutine instead of the default way we always do it.

3

I just wanted to add to this, that this didn’t work for me, but moving the “yield return null;” to just after the PlayMovie() did work. Not sure if its something that changed in Unity3 or iOS4 or both.

4

This method doesn’t work for me.

5

Yeah this is bugged for me as well. There is no way to get Unity to actually pause before the movie starts. There’s also no way to tell when a movie is done playing, so we’re plain screwed either way.

6

This still works for me in our game on the market currently, Mummy’s Treasure, playing the Chillingo animation, but curious if something changed in new Unity versions since then.

7

adding the yield after you call PlayMovie() solved it for us. It pauses the player, and picks up after the yield