Play audio during fullscreen movie playback

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Hi,

I'm using Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie to play a video file in my game, and I need to be able to play music in the background while the video is playing. I tried just playing the music before starting the video but it doesn't keep playing and I can't find any information about doing this.

Will this even work ? or is there a different way ? (short of re-encoding all the videos with the music added)

Thanks.

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Answer by eightbitstev · Mar 18, 2014 at 10:34 PM

Straight from the documentation...

Calling this function will pause Unity during movie playback. When playback finishes Unity will resume.

I had a problem with this as well. The only way around this I could see would be to use a movie texture on a 3D plane in your scene so you can handle playing back the movie and the audio clip simultaneously. If you're going super serious mode, I suggest using a plugin like the AVPro plugins from RenderHeads. They've worked great for me in the past and they offer wonderful support.

EDIT: Alternatively, you could re-encode your videos with the audio you want. It sounds like you're trying to avoid that though. :)

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missingno · Mar 19, 2014 at 01:57 PM 0

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I figured as much. I knew that Unity paused, but I was hoping there was some way to start audio and keep it going even after pausing or something.

I'm having the videos re-encoded this morning, it seems like the only (and easiest) way, oh well. Thanks.

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