Run movie in VLC player

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The reason for this question is that I’m not satisfied with the quality of the video from Movie texture. I used Miro converter to import FullHD movie inside Unity, but when I display it on large screen the movie playback does not look smooth - it looks like some frames are lost.
Therefore, I thought about playing a movie in full screen VLC player which is run from the Unity, but I don’t know how to run external application from Unity.
Are there any other solutions to my issue? Or suggestions?
Thank you very much in advance. My regards,
Aleksandra

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You can run other applications from outside Unity with C#, but it will open a new window with your movie.

Have a look at System.Diagnostics.Process

If you are looking for another way of playing movie files, maybe you should search for external libraries and embed them into your game. Like BINK or something. But these libraries are quite expensive. AND you need a pro license to import dll’s.

Maybe you should ask for related libraries at gamedev stackexchange. Maybe there is some simple DLL that you can embed into your game.

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Thank you very much. I used the following code:

string _path = "C:\\Users\\Saska\\Desktop\\Videi\\intro.mpg --fullscreen vlc://quit --intf dummy";
			foo = new Process();
			foo.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe";
			foo.StartInfo.Arguments = _path;
			foo.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
			foo.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized;

			foo.Start();

But VLC player minimizes my Unity app, and when the movie finishes, I have to click on taskbar in Windows to make Unity window in full screen. How I can avoid minimization of Unity window, so it runs underneath VLC player in full screen?

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If you’re still interested in using VLC from Unity, I created a VLC for Unity plugin: check out this thread http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/released-vlc-player-for-unity.387372/ or the package on the asset store here, where you can try out a demo.