This is a sample of iOS VideoPlayer playing video into unity texture.

##Prerequisites

Unity: 4.2

iOS: 5.0

First of all, playing video into a texture have certain limitations:

• OpenGL ES 2 must be used.
• Only local video can be played.

There are two pieces of interest: VideoPlayerInterface.cs and Plugins/iOS/VideoPlayerInterface.mm.

VideoPlayerInterface.mm contains the simple delegate for VideoPlayer, and several functions that allows to query video information.

Playing video is 2-step process:

first we load it:

if(!player)
{
	player = [[VideoPlayer alloc] init];
	player.delegate = self;
}

[player loadVideo:url];

and start playing it only when it is ready:

- (void)onPlayerReady
{
	playerReady = YES;

	[player playToTexture];
	[player setAudioVolume:1.0f];
}

VideoPlayerInterface.cs contains c# interface to native VideoPlayer. The main work is done inside videoTexture getter:

public Texture2D videoTexture
{
	get
	{
		if(videoReady)
		{
			int nativeTex = VideoPlayer_CurFrameTexture();
			if(_videoTexture == null)
			{
				_videoTexture = Texture2D.CreateExternalTexture(videoWidth, videoHeight, TextureFormat.BGRA32, false, false, (System.IntPtr)nativeTex);
				_videoTexture.filterMode = FilterMode.Bilinear;
				_videoTexture.wrapMode = TextureWrapMode.Repeat;
			}

			_videoTexture.UpdateExternalTexture((System.IntPtr)nativeTex);
		}
		else
		{
			_videoTexture = null;
		}

		return _videoTexture;
	}
}

Please note, that Texture2D.UpdateExternalTexture must be used, so video playback to texture can be used only with Unity PRO.

big_buck_bunny.mp4 is the first minute from the cc-by licenced “open movie” Big Buck Bunny