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Direct Video for Android™
High performance video playback for Android™ devices
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About this asset
Use the Direct Video package to play video files on Android™ devices such as smartphones and standalone VR headsets (Meta Quest, Pico VR etc.).
If you want to play 4k and 8k video, high resolution 360 videos etc. this is the plugin for you.
By efficiently using hardware decoding and an optimised decoder pathway, this can playback videos with lower CPU usage, keeping your framerate up and reducing battery drain.
It also loads videos quicker, loops seamlessly without audio glitches (check out the comparison video), seeks much faster than the default player, and has a useful fallback feature so you can use super-high quality video on devices which support it, but fallback automatically on devices that can't decode high resolution or high FPS video files.
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Technical details
* Hardware-accelerated video decoding which reduces CPU usage to 60-80% of Unity's built-in VideoPlayer depending on Unity version and video file.
* Seamless looping - videos loop without audio gaps, pauses or glitches.
* Fast seeking - without glitching seen in built in player.
* 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.
Compatibility
| Unity version | Built-in | URP | HDRP |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6000.5.8f1 | Compatible | Compatible | Not listed |
Works with Built and and URP on Android™ devices. Tested on 2022.3.63f LTS and 6000.3.1f1
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