Help me step by step to make video play on mobile!

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Hello!

I am in a bit of a desperate situation, I am working on a mobile project. As the last step I need to have a button on my canvas (already got that up), when being pressed it plays a video to a user on their phone. The idea is that this will be on Android and iOS. I watched some tutorials online but they did not work on mobile devices.

Then I found out that a script were needed, something like

 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.UI;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class PlayHelp : MonoBehaviour
 {
     public MovieTexture movTexture;
     void Start()
     {
         GetComponent<Renderer>().material.mainTexture = movTexture;
         Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie("videoname.mp4");
     }
 }

But how do I get it into my scene and working? I am running out of time and I just feel like I have hit a brick wall when im soo close to finishing the project.

I have a button on my Canvas, when it is being pressed it should show this video I got in my stream asset folder, but how?

Please help me and guide me through step by step, what stuff do I need to make and where do I attach each part? directly to the button or do I make the button go to another canvas or an entire new scene? (I would prefer to keep it all in the same scene).

I need to have a video texture I assume, but how do I make one and where do I put it?

Answer 1

Looking at https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-MovieTexture.html, it uses an example when you press the space bar, but I imagine you can change that case to a button press.

 public class PlayMovieOnSpace : MonoBehaviour {
     void Update () {
         if (Input.GetButtonDown ("Jump")) {
             
             Renderer r = GetComponent<Renderer>();
             MovieTexture movie = (MovieTexture)r.material.mainTexture;
             
             if (movie.isPlaying) {
                 movie.Pause();
             }
             else {
                 movie.Play();
             }
         }
     }
 }

Reading a bit above that it says once your movie file is added to your assets it works like a texture.

Once your Movie Texture has been imported, you can attach it to any GameObject or Material, just like a regular Texture.

So sounds like you can just drag it onto your gamecontroller or gameobject (canvas it sounds like in your setup)

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