[SOLVED] Importing huge videos into Unity

Unity Engine
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Hi there! I am building a 360-degree video app that projects a MovieTexture onto a sphere. However, I’m having trouble importing the rather large video texture (150MB). Unity always hangs and the loading icon continues indefinitely.

I can force-quit Unity and restart to continue working, but I get this message after the restart:[quote]
Automatic import for ‘Assets/StreamingAssets/video.mp4’ was disabled because the asset importer crashed on it last time.
[/quote]

Force-quitting also seems to corrupt the file. The asset icon is different (it’s a Quicktime logo instead of a “filmstrip”), I can’t expand it to see the embedded audio clip, and when I try to assign it as a MovieTexture, it’s not displayed in the asset list dialog.

When I try the above with smaller files, they successfully import, and I can use them no problem. Same settings, just a shorter video.

Has anybody encountered this before, and do you have any fixes or workarounds? I am using Unity 4.6.4f on OSX 10.10.2.

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Nevermind! The solution was to let Unity chug away overnight. It does successfully import the large video file after about an hour.

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Have you solved playing MovieTexture on Android? Or you are not deployong on Android at all?

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Yes, I used the EasyMovieTexture plugin. It’s messy and the documentation sucks, but it gets the job done.

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Yea ok. Im trying to get around that. :smile:

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@Tronno
At import time, Unity converts the video to ogg vorbis.
If you author your video to ogg vorbis, you’ll have instant imports.

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You can also do the conversion from commandline (can see the progressbar there and could run multiple of these)

..Unity5\Editor\Data\Tools\QuicktimeTools.exe "transcode" "-input" "yourvideo.mp4" "-output" "yourvideo.ogg" "-vbr" "4100000.000000" "-abr" "156000.000000"
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In my opinion, the best way to do that is leaving the movie out of the project, loading it at runtime with EasyMovieTexture.
Importing a huge movie in Unity requires a very long time, as you discovered, and could also cause crashes as the project size grows over a certain limit.