Does videoPlayer.url supports playing live video from hosted url?

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I'm following this sample code to play video from unity docs VideoPlayer and also came to this via google search. I'm using Unity 5.6.1f1

This code - > works fine when i play video from local file system or by assigning video clip in editor.

   using System.Collections;
     using System.Collections.Generic;
     using UnityEngine;
     using UnityEngine.UI;
     using UnityEngine.Video;
     
     public class StreamVideo : MonoBehaviour {
     
         public RawImage image;
     
         //public VideoClip videoToPlay;
     
         private VideoPlayer videoPlayer;
         private VideoSource videoSource;
     
         private AudioSource audioSource;
         
         // Use this for initialization
         void Start () {
             Application.runInBackground = true;
             StartCoroutine(playVideo());
         }
     
         IEnumerator playVideo()
         {
           
             //Add VideoPlayer to the GameObject
             videoPlayer = gameObject.AddComponent<VideoPlayer>();
     
             //Add AudioSource
             audioSource = gameObject.AddComponent<AudioSource>();
     
             //Disable Play on Awake for both Video and Audio
             videoPlayer.playOnAwake = false;
             audioSource.playOnAwake = false;
             audioSource.Pause();
     
             //We want to play from video clip not from url
             
           //videoPlayer.source = VideoSource.VideoClip;
     
             // Vide clip from Url
             videoPlayer.source = VideoSource.Url;
             videoPlayer.url = "http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4";
     
     
             //Set Audio Output to AudioSource
             videoPlayer.audioOutputMode = VideoAudioOutputMode.AudioSource;
     
             //Assign the Audio from Video to AudioSource to be played
             videoPlayer.EnableAudioTrack(0, true);
             videoPlayer.SetTargetAudioSource(0, audioSource);
     
             //Set video To Play then prepare Audio to prevent Buffering
             //videoPlayer.clip = videoToPlay;
             videoPlayer.Prepare();
     
             //Wait until video is prepared
             WaitForSeconds waitTime = new WaitForSeconds(1);
             while (!videoPlayer.isPrepared)
             {
                 Debug.Log("Preparing Video");
                 //Prepare/Wait for 5 sceonds only
                 yield return waitTime;
                 //Break out of the while loop after 5 seconds wait
                 break;
             }
     
             Debug.Log("Done Preparing Video");
     
             //Assign the Texture from Video to RawImage to be displayed
             image.texture = videoPlayer.texture;
     
             //Play Video
             videoPlayer.Play();
     
             //Play Sound
             audioSource.Play();
     
             Debug.Log("Playing Video");
             while (videoPlayer.isPlaying)
             {
                 Debug.LogWarning("Video Time: " + Mathf.FloorToInt((float)videoPlayer.time));
                 yield return null;
             }
             Debug.Log("Done Playing Video");
         }
     }

But when I enable, it doesn't play video.

 videoPlayer.url = "http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4";

Nothing happens... So my question is **does it even supports playing video from url say http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4?**

Answer 1

@harschell yes, just add this script to whatever object you want the video to play on:

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 using UnityEngine.Video;

 public class VideoController : MonoBehaviour {

 public GameObject tv;
 public Renderer rend;
 public Material on;
 public Material off;
 private bool isPlaying;
 private VideoPlayer videoPlayer;
 private AudioSource audioSource;

 // Use this for initialization
 void Start () {
      
     videoPlayer = gameObject.AddComponent<VideoPlayer>();

     //Add AudioSource
     audioSource = gameObject.AddComponent<AudioSource>();

     //Disable Play on Awake for both Video and Audio
     videoPlayer.playOnAwake = false;
     audioSource.playOnAwake = false;
     audioSource.Pause();

     // Video clip from Url
     videoPlayer.source = VideoSource.Url;
     videoPlayer.url = "http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4";
                 
     //Set Audio Output to AudioSource
     videoPlayer.audioOutputMode = VideoAudioOutputMode.AudioSource;

     //Assign the Audio from Video to AudioSource to be played
     videoPlayer.EnableAudioTrack(0, true);

     videoPlayer.SetTargetAudioSource(0, audioSource);

     //Set video To Play then prepare Audio to prevent Buffering        
     videoPlayer.Prepare();
     
     //Play Video
     videoPlayer.Play();

     //Play Sound
     audioSource.Play();
 }
 
 // Update is called once per frame
 void Update () {
     isPlaying = videoPlayer.isPlaying;
     if (isPlaying)
     {
         rend.material = on;
     }
     else
     {
         rend.material = off;
     }
     
 }
 }

Note: the on/off are just materials I use to set the color of my tv object to make it look off when the tv is not playing the video. Hope this helps, it works fine for me.

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