Play or Stream a Video with 3D audio in Unity

Learn how to play or stream a video in unity on a 3D object using the VideoPlayer component. The VideoPlayer component can load a local file or use a HTTP url. For streaming, you cannot use YouTube directly, but can host the video on a server or on Vimeo and get the link to the direct playback (I show to how in the video). Then we will implement 3D spatial sound, where the audio changes direction and volume depending on the user proximity to the video source.

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0:00 Intro
1:11 Video Player
3:42 Stream a Video
4:33 3D Sound
7:11 Outro

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[ColeWithAGoal]

The VideoPlayer component is great :) Thanks for the tutorial!

[chriswatts]

Maybe you`d like to enhance the scene with a illumination of the environment by the video. So the video would act as a lightsource and the room gets darker when the content in the video gets dark.

[justusforan]

This has so many great applications, thanks for the video Sam!

[Kgotso_Koete]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just added the free cinema asset to my game and quickly got a video running thanks to you.

[nicholasdavis]

This is my favorite channel for game development. Thank you!

[gazzer]

Thanks sam.
That was awesome! I always wondered how that was done.

[SOS_Studios]

when i make it 3d it doesn't play sound PLEASE HELP ):

[avivbenezra]

Thank you for the explanation. The video doesn't work after android building in Oculus 2. Do you know how to solve it?

[pramilayadav]

A game where you watch cinema will be very cool

[данет-эл]

@samyam Thx for guide. Greate video. Also have a quastion. Is there a way for Unitys Video Player to play some live streams from URL? mb not exactly twitch or youtube i wonder like in general is it possible? any option will be great. Not just video that can bedownloaded from internet, but literally the one which is currently Live. like make retranslation to my game.

[GlasTaibhse]

this is so cool! i've been planning a pretty big game for a while, and something like this would be perfect for the TV at the main characters house! this gives me something to look forward to for when i start making that project :) :) :)

[otohime]

Is there any way of doing that without the video player component?

[ElSolitarioPerpetuo]

I have a doubt, this works to live transmissions in vimeo?

[GemTappX]

Wow that's way easier then I thought.

[ricardomota]

Does the video player stream from RTMP/RTSP streams?

[tetvris]

AVPro is best to add to VR Unity3D projects that need control of the video better.

[vivekmusafir]

Please make a video on how to use agora sdk for live video streaming

[PhilM]

The vimeo portion doesn't seem to exist anymore. Please help.

[RJs_World_]

I Love You So much Sister. Thanx for making such useful videos, That help us lot.

[TheMeanArena]

Nice tutorial. I wonder if you can read and play movie files outside of the game build?