Media Playback for Unity on Windows 10

Media Playback plugin for Unity on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.

It gives you access to a broad range of media playback features:

• Local files, progressive and Adaptive Streaming (HLS, DASH) playback
• Regular and 360 videos, stereoscopic (3D) and monoscopic
• All formats, codecs and media containers supported by Windows 10
• Subtitles

The plugin is built on top of MediaPlayer Universal Windows Platform API. Primarily targeting Windows Mixed Reality, it also supports Windows Standalone (desktop) apps built with Unity.

MediaPlaybackDemo is a demo project covering 3 key scenarios:

• Regular video playback with Adaptive Streaming, MediaPlayback.unity scene.
• 360 video playback (mono), MediaPlayback360Mono.unity scene.
• 360 video playback (stereo), MediaPlayback360Stereo.unity scene.
  The demo project already has all plugin binaries prebuilt.

Supported Unity versions:

• 5.6.3
• 2017.2.1
• 2017.3 (preliminary)

How to use

1. Download MediaPlaybackDemo release package or open MediaPlaybackDemo project from a cloned repo.
2. Look how MediaPlayback.unity and MediaPlayback360Stereo.unity are structured. If you just want to play a video in your scene, use Playback and MediaPlaybackRunner components.

How to build

For building the plugin, use Visual Studio 2017 with Windows Desktop, Universal Windows Platform and C++ toolsets installed. It also requires Windows 10 Fall Creators update SDK.

• Open MediaPlayback/MediaPlayback.sln
• Build Desktop and UWP projects

If built successfully, *MediaPlayback\Unity\MediaPlayback* should have all Unity files required. CopyMediaPlaybackDLLsToDemoProject.cmd script copies plugin binary files to the demo project.

Changes in C# files in the demo project (MediaPlaybackDemo) stay only there. MediaPlayback solution has its own "master" copy of C# files (UnityAddonFiles solution folder). If you change files in either location, make sure you copy them across both folders.