![]() 360 Equirectangular Sphere for VR Movie Playback in Unity I just came across a forum post on reddit talking about SPlugins Movie Texture for Mobile ($30) that may also work on android and iOS with sound, but haven’t tried it yet. Here’s an interesting forum post by its author about video support in Unity. I believe a lot of the compression in an mp4 or ogg vorbis file is due to the compression algorithm knowing that a certain pixel doesn’t change from one frame to the next.Ī final plugin that was recently pulled from the store by the developer (too much work to maintain maybe?) was Video Texture Pro 2. This also doesn’t sync audio, but has the potential for extreme hi-def playback at the cost of extreme app size–not ideal for a mobile app. One other plugin I tried plays back a sequence of images: Universal Video Texture ($20). This one requires ogg vorbis files, and also doesn’t play video at the same time. Anything below 1000px of vertical resolution starts too look poor under a magnified 360 view.Īnother one that’s also $75, but free to try, is Mobile Movie Texture. A 2048×1024 was unwatchable on iPhone 5S, which is my lower end target for playing back 360 video with cardboard. I had trouble with larger format videos being very choppy. The plugin provides a way to sync an audio track along with the video, but this seems likely to get out of sync. This one was nice because videos would play inside the Editor, but I had to provide my own sphere and it doesn’t work on android. I also tried prime31’s iOS video plugin, LiveTexture, which was $75. Getting a suitable sphere is a little tricky, since the default sphere in Unity has normals facing outwards rather than in, and doesn’t have the right UV mapping. The best part of this plugin is that it comes with a demo scene including a sphere to play back equirectangular videos. Note that it doesn’t work in the Editor, so you have to build to see the results. It even supports streaming and playing from the SD card. It works on android (utilizes Android MediaPlayer) and iOS and the developer gives great support. ![]() The most success so far has been achieved using the Easy Movie Texture plugin for Unity, currently $45. Movie & Video Plugins for Unity and Android / iOS / Gear VR. Some resolutions and frame rates don’t work for me.
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