What is the right format to export HD video for video texture?

Unity Engine
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Hello Fellow Developers,

We are trying to get an HD video as a background for our game.
But yet without success.

Does anyone know how to export the right fileformat with Premiere Pro? Or with any converter?

We cannot export to OGV or OGG. So MP4 can do but it doenst take the video itself?
I use H264 compression 3 MBps.

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Hi,

I’ve try converting FullHD 1080p video to OGV last few month. This is tested on Unity 3.5.5.
The video playback is done on CPU, and noticeable stutter.

In my experience, if you try to bring in others video format (avi,mpg,mov,wmv), unity will auto convert it ogv
and the color and the video will not accurate. Look a bit saturated and also stutter on 1080p playback.

Currently, I’m using “AVProQuickTime”, which work with Unity and able to play 1080p video by providing external link (c:\blablabla\foo.mov).
The color is more accurate and better than Unity video playback. The video still have stutter a little but is hardly noticeable.

If anyone have better solution, feel free to comment and give guide.
Thanks

Shin

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Thank you ! Ill try that right now.

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AVProQuickTime is that a Coded or a external plugin for Unity3d?

Fileformat .MOV right?

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I see its a plugin, I find it VERY expensive…!!!

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Hi again,

Yes, indeed the plugin is a bit expensive for individual. However I’m using it as the company find it affordable.
Not sure which version of Unity you’re using…
Give this converter a try on Unity4 and see if unity4 has better video playback or not.
“ffmpeg2theora”

I find this (“ffmpeg2theora”) give better result in bitrate and compression than other video converter.
It doesn’t have GUI, so you have to use command prompt to convert your video.

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AVProQuicktime or AVProWindowsMedia aren’t that expensive, not for what they offer, but they are pretty much your only alternatives since Unity only supports ogv. Although obviously neither of these will work if you project is for webplayer and i’m unsure where you’d stand if it was for iOS or Android.

With regard to producing ogv files the best software i’ve found is Miro Video Converter. Its free and does a very good job in terms of balancing compression with quality, well at least in so much as the ogv format can offer.

Just be aware that Unity ogv playback is pretty limited too, no scrubbing, stopping rewinds to the begin etc.