Hi all,
I’m just finishing an interior scene and I was trying to import a background music and a video that I would like to loop on some screens into the scene.
I remember in the older UE versions to import pretty easily sound assets, drag them into the scene and they where just ready to go.
Now when I import audio or video assets unreal creates file media sources related to those files. I than have to create a media player, a media sound wave and a media texture in order to be able to drag and drop something into the scene. Even after this is done and even after I tried with some blueprint to force playing video texture or sound at game startup, I am not able to play any of them. Only thing it seems to work is the Media Player: if I play it in its properties panel, than I see the video reflecting in the Media texture on the content browser and also into the screens where the textures is applied into the scene. But If I play the game, nothing happens. Not even the background music is playing. Nothing.
So I would like to know if something is changed in the way I have to manage Media sources in UE and how I can solve this thing.
Thanks
Nazzareno
Update: With a quick export from Audacity I was able to import correctly an audio track to play in the background. I’m still not able to play a video file into a screen as a media texture.
I too can’t play the video in-game. I have a fullscreen cutscene ready to play but the blue print plays the correct node with the media player variable, then nothing happens. Works flawlessly in Bink and terribly with the new 4.13 Media Player. Media player in UE4 never ever worked right.
hi
I have the same problem .
In 4.12 i used to drag and drop in the content browser, done .
In 4.13 i tried the same and also copy it in the project folder from explorer, import, create in 4.12 and open in 4.13 but nothing work .
Does anyone have an explanation ?
EDIT: It sort of works now. I forgot to do like in the below image.
BUT it still does not seem to want to use the blueprint ‘Play’ node. It starts playing just because I have Play On Open = [x], but if I leave that un-checked and try to use the Play BP node it doesn’t start playing.
Do not call Play right after OpenXYZ. It’s not going to work, because it may take some time to open the media. Either check the PlayOnOpen checkbox in your MediaPlayer asset, or bind to the OnMediaOpened event.
Yeah, but that’s not a very reliable hack. How long should the delay be? Well, it depends on how long the media takes to open. For media coming from the internet or a shared network drive, this may take much longer than you think.
My video texture will only play if I manually open the Media Player WHILE the PIE is active and double-click the video file from the list at the bottom. It wasn’t like this in 4.12.
I didn’t have any problems when I created video by following the link (Play a Video File in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.1 Documentation). However, when I created a widget video, a video doesn’t play. The video will play when I click play in Media Player and the screen was messing (not full screen as defined in widget). Below is my blueprint. All in all, what I need to do is just playing the video in full screen with VR mode. Please help!!
