Playing a video as part of the scene on mobile

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Hi all, I have a Video file, that is the intro to my game, and I want to play it but also have a SKIP button visible that the player can click to skip the whole video.
The game is for Android and iOS.

I have tried the Handheld.playfullscreenmovie, but this plays the video in an external player and I can’t add the skip button.

Movie texture isn’t supported on mobile platforms, and I haven’t found a plugin that works.

Some are broken and aren’t updated, while others I found simply user a MJPG format which is essentially a series of stills, inflating the movie size (past the acceptable levels that I can add to the project).

I was thinking if its possible to add a webbrowser-like object to the scene and have it play a webpage that will stream the video, but haven’t found a way to do it (with or without plugins).

Any suggestions would be welcomed, plugins/workarounds.
I have Unity PRO licence for both iOS and Android so any solution is acceptable.

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Your observations are correct :wink:

  1. Handheld.playfullscreenmovie gives you what kind of controls to show on screen. You can not display your custom skip button as far as I know.
  2. We used MobileMovieTexture to play videos is 3D space. It doesn’t play audio, so we played audio using regular AudioSource. Of course sometimes that lead to missynchronization, because video lags on slow devices (iPhone3GS in our case), so we had to do some synchronization. It wasn’t perfect, but it worked.
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This sample works falwlessly on Android, as well as iOS. I find it very complicating, so I’m not having much luck duplicating it in my own project, but it works very well! Now if someone were to duplicate the results using this as a base, and turn it into a plugin…
https://developer.vuforia.com/downloads/samples