MovieTexture color fidelity

Unity Engine
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I’m trying to use MovieTexture in Unity 5.2.0f3 on OS X and can successfully play videos, but the color is extremely bad.

In the attached screenshot, the left image is a PNG and the right is a MovieTexture. They’re both using the Unlit/Texture shader on a Quad and I believe the only difference is their position. The video’s quality is set to 1.

In this case I’ve imported an MP4/H.264 (yuv420p) which when compared to the PNG outside of Unity looks absolutely fine. I’ve also tried importing from a Prores video with the same result.

This minimal test project is also attached. Any ideas how to improve this?

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Project attached

2311798–155765–ColorTest.zip (724 KB)

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Any luck with this?
I’m observing similar issues on Windows with MovieTexture.

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looks quite fine here (if make the game view big enough)

*oh i see the colors are still off, just font is better on full screen

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The best solution I’ve come across is to export videos as .ogv, then Unity will not touch it upon import.

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