Video Player issues in Linux when playing from URL

Unity Engine
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Hello,

I am having troubles making VideoPlayer play videos from URL in Linux devices. I can’t play a video from an URL (local or from internet), it always says “Can’t play movie”. I have tried several videos from several URLs but it is always the same error. If I download the videos and set VideoPlayer to play directly from a videoclip it works perfectly.
It also works like a charm in Editor, iOS, Android, Windows and OSX, it is only failing in Linux.
I am using Unity 2018.2.13f1 (although I have tried also with 5.6) and Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.

If anyone have any clue or hint about what I am doing wrong it would be great.

Thanks everyone for reading.

Regards.

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same problem( are you fixed it?

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No, sorry.
Finally I added the videos to the app in the Linux version so I can play them directly from the app.

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I found solution! it works! just convert your video to webm with vp8 video and vorbis audio.

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Great! Thanks!
Unfortunately, I am not the owner of the videos nor the server where they are hosted, so I am afraid I can’t ask for a conversion.

Anyway, it is a great help to know where the problem is.

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It only does that within the UNITY environment that when you compile it for LINUX and run the program, the videos are not seen. :frowning: