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Donutkilla
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July 27, 2019

Oculus Quest / Unreal 4 Media Player Material and /or Sequence Material

Has anyone had any luck getting a Media Player Material and/or a Sequence Material to work in the Oculus Quest? When I launch  to the Quest all my materials show up except for the Media Player material. Any suggestions?
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TomVR
TomVR
Up and Coming
August 10, 2019
is the source file in the contents directory of your project?
MarzioDellAnna
New Participant
October 27, 2019
No way.. I cant see video inside my quest.. someone try to use media player with ue 4.23 inside quest?
Anonymous
October 30, 2019
Same here. Can't map quicktime video...

TomCHall: Tried to put it a the root of the content but It doesn't solve the problem.

I'm using 4.22.

Any solution?
Anonymous
October 30, 2019
Up!
Success there with a mp4 file into the Content/Movies/ directory !

Anonymous
October 30, 2019
Rename my Mov to Mp4 works too :)
Hyperwerkvr2n
New Participant
November 4, 2019
Is there an other solution? I have mp4 files but the material is still not playing the video.

Edit: I am using 4.23
Anonymous
November 6, 2019
@ijinprod did you ever use 4.23? - i have same issue. 

Im using Vulkan

I have files in Content/Movies/

Im considering different format - as you mentioned you are using MOV file? - did you actually just renamed to MP4 - and did it work as mov and also as mp4? - can you telle anything about the format, frame size(1920x1080?)

Thanks a lot.
Anonymous
November 6, 2019
now i tested few things. 
1. it shows ok when i turn on HDR mobile. 
2. I ran it with Vulkan - but it shows very bad FPS - like 30-50
3. I then converted back to ES3.1 - and now we are pretty close to desired 70 fps… 

Does anyone know that Vulkan should be slower than ES3.1?
Sata3D838436
New Participant
November 30, 2019
you can play the video in ES3.1 ? or only in vulkan ?
JamesSiebert
New Participant
December 15, 2020
Hi, I've just spent half my day on this and seem to have it working well.

Firstly I followed this tutorial:
Youtube - "How To Add 360 Video To Your Oculus Quest Using UE4" by Game Dev XR

Then I used Blender to make a sphere and flipped the normals.
Tip for the sphere: Rotation (0,0,180), Scale (-10,10,10) otherwise the video will be mirrored.

For optimisations, I followed the official Quest UE4 setup docs with the exception of changing Vulkan back to OpenGL ES3.1 (Project settings > Platforms > Android > Build )
Vulkan was giving me 17 FPS, OpenGL ES3.1 72 FPS

Another tip: Instead of using a delay before play
This calls an event when the source is opened then you trigger play. 


Oculus Quest 1
UE 4.25.3
Vulkan - 17 FPS
OpenGL ES3.1 - 72 FPS
Arm64
Tested on industry-standard professional 360 video (3840x1920 h264 mp4)
Using Unreal MediaPlayer & a flipped normal sphere

Hope this helps someone :)
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