ogg video streaming

Unity Engine
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Hi

Do I need to use a streaming server like Icacast to use ogg video streaming capabilities ?

When I read an ogg file on a webserver it seems that unity entirelly load him before begin to play anything.
If I enter an ogg url from a stream server it’s a lot faster.
Can unity stream an ogg video file from a standard apache webserver ?

Thanks a lot

Jerome

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You can not stream ogg video files, only ogg video streams

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Ok but what is the difference between an ogg file and an ogg stream?
How to create an ogg stream ? And how to make it available on the web ? with a server like icecast ?

Jerome

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You can use Unity to convert a wide variety of formats into usable, and streamable Ogg files. Once Unity has done that you can post that to your web server and stream the video on demand as a texture (Unity Pro only of course) via the WWW class.

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Sorry HiggyB, but I would really appreciate more information on this.

Could we get the audio stream live as well?

I will use this feature to death if so, as I’m trying to create a 3D social network for a university here in the UK.

Edit: An example project would be incredible. Lots of people are asking about this sort of functionality.

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Where above did we discuss “live”? You can stream audio files but they must be in the Ogg Vorbis format, video must be in the Ogg Theora format (and can include sound). Unfortunately I don’t have an example project to offer and am not sure if/where one exists from anyone else. If I come across one I’ll do my best to post that here. In the meantime I’m sending a note off to our demo team that such an example project would in fact be great to have on our site.

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Much appreciated HiggyB.

I haven’t had to set up a streaming service in a long time, so in short…

Is it possible to stream ‘live’ video + audio?

Thanks from the community.

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No one ever seems to answer this question. NO…at least not as far as I’ve been able to determine. You might add to the Wishlist here:

http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=334336#334336

HTH,
Jack