OrenVideo - Cross Platform Video Solution (Comming to asset store?)

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Hi all

I’m glad to announce my new product: OrenVideo - Cross Platform Video Solution

Few words about the product:

OrenVideo let you put videos in your game/application with less then an hour! without worrying about memory or speed,

and the cool thing about it is that you have built-in alpha channel so you can play transparent videos…

want to play video inside your game textures? no problem!

want to play some cut scenes? easy!

want to create your entire UI with videos? done!

to see it in action in real published game, check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5QCcz6CDg

Super Splatters uses OrenVideo a lot!

  • the entire UI done with videos.
  • in game effects done with videos.
  • in game markers/objects done with videos.

and more…

to know how many OrenVideo instances are used in real-time check out the green rects in the video.

here is what Niv Fisher - Founder Lead programmer at Spiky Snail had to say about OrenVideo:

“After using Bink extensively in the XBLA version, also licensing it for PC turned out to be too expensive. We decided to try out OVD and were thoroughly impressed with the ease of integration, the simplicity of the tools and the support we got. The quality and performance of this library was on par or better for a fraction of the price.”

Few of OrenVideo highlights:

  • Cross platform (windows,mac, linux, android, ios).
  • Internal alpha channel for transparent videos.
  • Simple and well documented SDK, easy to debug, you can integrate it in less than an hour!.
  • One small library and you are set. no special system software audio codec needed, it is completely self-contained and not rely on any 3rd party libraries.
  • Same API and data files on multiple platforms.
  • Highly optimized to take advantage of every platform it supports. you will be shocked how well it perform, you can use it for in-game videos, cut-scene videos and even build your entire UI with it!
  • Optimize to use minimal memory as much as possible, no need to worry about codecs that eats your memory!.
  • Design to work hand by hand in multi-threaded environments.

for more info, check out my site at: http://www.orenvid.com

My question to you is: would you like to see OrenVideo in unity asset store?
the reason i’m asking is that i’m not sure about the asset store yet, but if your answer is yes, i would like to know:

  • for what purpose? in-game, cut scene etc…
  • which platform? pc,mac,linux, android, ios
  • if you need to play videos, what is your current solution and is it fast enough?

thanks

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Welcome to the forum!

Up until now, I wasn’t aware of OrenVideo and I was actively searching for that kind of solution! It would be a huge benefit for you to be in the Asset Store.
Although, you would need to make some essential licensing to conform with the existing store licenses. Your price is extremely high compared to any other package in the Asset Store, but you are probably aware of that. Just to make it clear: I understand why the price is high, but I am usually in a minority.

You are probably aware that OrenVideo is totally impressive!

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Hi dantus

thanks for your reply, and your kind words about OrenVideo.

the prices on my site is priced for native lib for non unity engines i’m aware that for the asset store the price will need to be lower (as it will be used only inside unity engine).
as for the asset store license this is what i’m having issue with but, it depends on unity users, the more users asking for my solution the more i make it a priority to find solution that meet unity users needs in terms on price and use…

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Where are all unity users, are they all happy with current solution?

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Yes interested, but can you provide demo apk?

I eval Bink before but they don’t support unity yet.

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Hi imtrobin

sorry no demo, unity license doesn’t really protect us, letting users download a demo basically expose all of it.
i could let the users some kind of a trial version, but that’s just says the user won’t enjoy from all the features and couldn’t test it as it suppose to be tested.

i can say that from my internal test i did i can say that OrenVideo performs very well, how well? i tested 4 720p videos with alpha and the speed was amazing…

as for Bink: i think unity support isn’t the problem, the problem is price, quality etc…
as for OrenVideo: i can assure everyone that once you will see it in action and work with it, you wont search for anything else…

i want to hear what users think and based on that i will decide if i will put it in the asset store or not.

thanks

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I have almost never seen that people give feedback on something that is not actually available.
Usually you are getting feedback as soon as you have a package in the Asset Store, or if you provide a demo version. I believe a demo may also work for you. Just integrate a water mark over the whole video textures to be sure that no one will use it in a commercial context. You could easily integrate the water mark before you push the texture to Unity without a significant performance hit.

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Hi

The feedback i’m asking is not on OrenVideo but for the possibility to have OrenVideo in the asset store, i’m asking people to say if they need such tool or not.

as for the watermark, i already have some kind of water mark but not before “the texture pushing”, as performance is critical… but maybe for unity store it will be good idea for a trial/demo version.

thanks

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I absolutely need this. There simply isn’t anything else that can do what this does and it would be useful for menus, cut scenes and in game. I’m very interested in having it on the Asset Store. For a number of reasons, I only buy from the Asset Store these days, if I can help it. Please make it happen (soon)!

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Hi kenlem

thanks for your reply, be sure that i will do my best to make OrenVideo available on the asset store.

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Hi all

just thought you would like to know that OrenVideo windows version is now available…

check my post about it:

also, i will be appreciate if you could spread the word about it

thanks

Oren k