Trying to skill up on Unity and ran into an issue with multiple videos. My scene has several signs that have small videos on them. Think tvs at a sports bar. Additionally I have a user controllable (start/stop) video on a flat panel display. The problem is that as soon as an additional video player is added, all videos in the scene start randomly rendering frames from every video in the scene. The project is targeted for oculus.
Video set up
Each video is being played with an individual video player
It is using render texture method to render
Each video has a corresponding material and video texture
Is it possible to have multiple videos in the same scene?
Is render texture the right video playback strategy?
Is there a way to keep the video players and their output to be individual.
Is there an example of this somewhere?
If I understand correctly you are saying that when you add a VideoPlayer every VideoPlayer starts playing? What is your Editor version, your OS, and your GPU? If you can show a clip or share a project, it would help a lot.
I also have this issue. If I have more than one video player in the scene, frames from videos that are playing are shown on the canvases of those that don’t play. different materials, different textures, different videos but still videos play on every canvas with a videoplayer component.
Upgrading the project to URP solved this issue. Seems weird. @The_Island To reproduce the issue, do the following,
Create a new 3D project with editor version 2021.3.3f1.
Add four planes in the scene with a render texture on each of the plane.
Add video player in each plane and assign the render texture from its respective plane.
Build it for android and check the output in the device.
You will see each video’s frames clash among themselves while playing. I am unable to submit a sample project as it is a client based project and I am tight on my schedule to recreate a new project. Hope the above steps will help you to recreate the issue.
Can you try the same on an Oculus Quest 2 device? I thought the issue was common for all the android devices. Also, why only one video was playing on the screen record you shared? Or all the videos playing simultaneously?
Unfortunately, I don’t have an Oculus Quest 2 device right now. I will try to ask a colleague if he can test it.
The original issue was the player “randomly rendering frames from every video in the scene” so it is easier to see the rendering if some players are not running. I tried two different clips and still didn’t see the issue. But again, I am on android, not Oculus Quest 2. I will reach out to someone.
Same case here Quest 2 : 5 videos projected on spheres and planes + alpha
Was OK in Game Mode but blocked in Headset only ??
solved by do as Viknesh said : one player/video
Then re-import videos so that :
original size
override for Android
H264
If still stuck , try re-encoding externally with a 2:1 ratio or traditional 1080p
at least be sure to have multiple of 4 on video dimensions
Unity will do the scaling
I have two different planes. Each having their own materials and render texture and also playing two different videos. Previewing on oculus showed that only one video displayed and played on both planes but I can still hear the second video audio playing.