Compress/Hide Videofiles?

Development Cinematics & Media
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Hey Epics,

is there a way to hide/compress videofiles in a packaged game?
Leaving them “open” would violate the terms and conditions of our partners…

thanks!

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Hey FATBACHELOR,

We do not we compress videos in any way, though we do pack them in different places depending on platform requirements. What platform is this video being packaged for, and what is the videos format?

Thanks,

H.

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hey andrew, thanks for getting in touch!
its for Windows only and video is currently in mp4

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Settings → Packaging → Use Pak File
that should be enough for most cases. BTW: Is there a way to encrypt pak files within unreal?

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Pak files wont include videos - thats why im asking!

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There is no built-in support for this right now. Movie files in /Content/Movies will simply be copied out. You’d have to roll your own solution. The lower level IMediaPlayer interface has an Open method that takes an FArchive. You could use that to pass in a reader to your decompressed data. It is supported on Windows.

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I went ahead and entered a Feature Request to have this addressed in the future.

UE-44001

Cheers,