VideoPlayer.Prepare() is crashing Unity 2022.2 with 100% CPU usage? VideoPlayer completely broken!!

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I just upgraded to Unity 2022.2 and my app became completely unusable. After narrowing it down, I commented out all instances of VideoPlayer.Prepare() and everything works fine again (except I now can’t pre-prepare videos of course).

This is highly consistent. If I comment out the line “videoPlayer.Prepare();” I can load my app. If I leave it in, my app does this instead with Editor going to 99.9% CPU usage and crashing my system:

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So it is clearly VideoPlayer.Prepare() that is crashing things. I can still run Play() commands but Prepare() does this to the CPU every time.

As soon as I drop back down to 2021.1.0b14 the exact code works fine and I can Prepare() videos again. Obviously I would like and need Prepare() working in 2022.2 as well.

Is this a known problem? Did something change in 2022.2.0b4 that needs special accounting for? Is there anything more you need to narrow down why this is happening?

Thanks.

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Yes, it is a known issue and we are working on a solution right now. Unfortunately, there is no workaround other than staying on an older version. You can see another thread about this here. https://discussions.unity.com/t/889118/4

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