Direct Video Android for Unity Scripting Documentation

Use the Direct Video Android package to play video files on Android devices such as smartphones and standalone VR headsets.

Key features:

• Hardware-accelerated video decoding which reduces CPU usage to approx 60% of Unity's built-in VideoPlayer.
• Seamless looping - videos loop without audio gaps or pauses.
• Automatic fallback to lower resolution or lower frame-rate videos on lower-end devices based on maximum sizes supported by device hardware decoders. This means you can play e.g. 8K 360 video at 60fps on high end devices, and fall-back to 4k 30fps on lower-end devices without any scripting work.
• On non-Android platforms (and in the Unity editor), the plugin can fall back to using Unity's built-in VideoPlayer component. This means you can test in-editor without having to have different components on your GameObjects.

Using the Plugin

The DirectVideoAndroid::DirectVideoPlayer component is used to play video files to a RenderTexture. You can then assign this texture to a material as usual. The initial size of the RenderTexture is ignored, as it is resized to the video dimensions when a frame is received.

If you want to script the DirectVideoPlayer component, see the api documentation for DirectVideoAndroid::DirectVideoPlayer.

If you just want to add one to a GameObject in the Unity editor, see the main documentation page: User docs.