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Kloster_Hude
Honored Guest
5 years ago

How to prepare 360 VR videos for later playback.

We are developing a VR app for the oculus go.  The videos we're using are prerendert from a 3d Software, 4096x4096px, 360 degrees, stereo (top/bottom) h265 encoded. Actualy im using the Unity standar...
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baroquedub
MVP
5 years ago

Last I looked the built in Video Player had awful memory management. imho you'd be way better off using AVPro Video as a more solid playback solution.

 

It has startTime (which you can convert to/from frame number knowing your framerate) as well as caching (which you'd want for your branching)

public virtual void AddMediaToCache(string url, string headers, MediaCachingOptions options)

https://www.renderheads.com/content/docs/AVProVideo/api/RenderHeads.Media.AVProVideo.BaseMediaPlayer.html 

 

and for checking, Enum CachedMediaStatus:

NameDescription
CachedThe media is cached.
CachingThe media is being cached.
FailedThe media is not cached, something went wrong - check the log.
NotCachedThe media has not been cached.

https://www.renderheads.com/content/docs/AVProVideo/api/RenderHeads.Media.AVProVideo.CachedMediaStatus.html

It's not cheap although it comes in different flavours (Core, Android only, Ultra etc.) and it has a fully working watermarked trial version so you can properly evaluate it before purchasing.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/video/avpro-video-core-edition-181844?aid=1100lMeW