Can I replace Stream Media URL at runtime?

[BridgetHooks]

Hi everyone! I am trying to output a video in Unreal based off a link sent from a raspberry pi. The idea is to receive the Url, set it as the url for stream source, and play media player. I can’t find a way to set the stream url when the game is active. Is it possible? I thought maybe there’s a way with the media options node… but no luck yet.

[SupportiveEntity]

Hey there @BridgetHooks! Welcome to the community! There might be a workaround by updating the media texture itself as referenced in this post:

Failed to set media texture to a media texture which is from "Construct object from class"

I spawn multiple media players in my Sandbox game so I think I’ve figured this one out; it seems that when you set the source of the media player, the media texture seems to loose it’s link to the media player; so when it’s trying to read data it simple has no “media player” to read data / frames from. The solution is to force an update of the underlying media texture resource, but it requires some C++. In your xxx.build.cs make sure you have the “MediaAsset” dependancy: PublicDependencyModul…

Hope this helps!