Video Playback on Mobile Device using GoogleVR Gaze

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I’m trying to use the GoogleVR SDK in Unity to control the playback of videos which are loaded on to 4 GameObjects.

Here is some working code for this in Unity (maybe useful for someone else) GitHub - cyrusclarke/googleVR_Unity_CinemaScene

If you deploy this with a working package, the repticle or pointer enables video playback after 3s of “gaze”. If the gaze is broken, the video is paused. There is also a counter to measure the time spent gazing at any given GameObject.

The problem is that MovieTexture is not supported for builds to mobile and I need to get this working for mobile. So I have got a plugin which anyone using video on Unity probably knows - EasyMovieTexture.

I have tried to follow the same process as before, calling a function from the source code of the package but this did not work. The new plugin has a script called MediaPlayerCtrl So I am trying to create an object based on that class and this gives me some ability to manipulate the video playback (play/pause etc.) however I still cannot link this back to the GoogleVR Repticle.

I have posted this code in another repository here. GitHub - cyrusclarke/newRepo

The approach I am thinking is to use GvrReticleNew.cs script to call a function in the mCtrls.cs script via the TimedInputHandler.cs. I have tried passing the HandleTimeInput function to the Update function and then letting the TimedInputHandler connect to the GvrReticle however this approach has not worked.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class mCtrl : MonoBehaviour {

    public MediaPlayerCtrl mCtrl1;

//Load some file to the MediaPlayer Controller for the GameObject and play
    private void Awake () {
        Debug.Log ("alive");
        mCtrl1.Load ("IXDAParody.mp4");
        mCtrl1.Play();

    }

    void Update () {
        HandleTimeInput ();

    }

     public void HandleTimeInput () {
        ///Basic Controls for Playback
        if (Input.GetKeyDown ("p")){
            mCtrl1.Pause ();
    }
        if(Input.GetKeyDown ("s")){
            mCtrl1.Play();
        }
    //Check Gaze (not working)
        Debug.Log("IM GAZING"); 

      }
  }

Well and truly stuck on this so any advice or help would be massively appreciated!

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I managed to solve this so contact me if you ever need help getting movie textures deployed for VR on mobile devices!