Weird video player behaviour in urls?

Unity Engine
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Unity version - 2022.3.7f1

I got a script set up to set video player url. It combines the websites host name (ex. youtube.com) and the path to a video (ex. /videos/example.mp4). But for some odd reason, when Play() function is used, it takes the current page’s url on which the game is located (ex. youtube.com/games/unityWeb) and combines the set url with it (so it becomes youtube.com/games/unityWeb/youtube.com/videos/example.mp4)

I’m not sure if this is an intended behaviour, if it is, how can i prevent url from being edited like this?

I’m sure it’s not the script’s fault, as it logs the url in the line right above the Play() function

2

I‘d still like to see the script. :wink:

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public class VideoOverlay : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    VideoPlayer player;
    [SerializeField]
    GameObject videoPopup;

    [DllImport("__Internal")]
    private static extern string GetHost();

    string url;
    [SerializeField]
    string videoUrl;

    void Awake()
    {
        url = "youtube.com";

        /*
        host url is taken with this .jslib plugin:
            var plugin = {
                GetHost: function () {
                    var data = window.top.location.hostname;;
                    var bufferSize = lengthBytesUTF8(data) + 1;
                    var buffer = _malloc(bufferSize);
                    stringToUTF8(data, buffer, bufferSize);
                    return buffer;
                }
            };

            mergeInto(LibraryManager.library, plugin);
        */
#if !UNITY_EDITOR
            url = GetHost();
#endif
    }

    void OpenOverlay() //Called by a button
    {
        videoPopup.SetActive(true);

        Debug.Log(videoUrl);
        Debug.Log(url);
        player.url = url + videoUrl;
    }

    void Play() //Called by a button
    {
        Debug.Log(player.url);

        player.Stop();
        player.Play();
    }
}
4

URLs usually begin with „https://„
perhaps that‘s what‘s missing here?

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5

Oh, that’s a silly mistake.

Thank you!