Hi Guys,
I’ve been working on getting my game to play a video and followed the documentation closely here. I have successfully got the video playing in editor at the correct time, however when I package my game and test it I get a black screen (The sound still plays as correctly). Has anyone else encountered this problem and any ideas on how i might go about fixing it?
Thanks,
Rengee
I remember reading something about videos not playing in certain screen resolutions. Try searching for it.
Hey guys,
So i figured out the issue. After re-checking the documentation i realized i had place placed the file in a folder in the contents directory called Video’s, however the folder name MUST be called Movies (Rookie mistake). This one change fixed the issue.
Thanks for your time.
Rengee
Hey thanks for your reply! I tried that and it didn’t work, however i have solved the issue now and replied to myself in the thread.
Thanks,
Rengee
This didn’t quite work for me. I have the exact same issue and I moved my media players in a folder called “Movies” but it is still not working in packaged game. Can you please explain more thoroughly what you did to fix it?
This bug will be ever fixed? Movie playing has absolutely no sense if only works in editor/standalone and not in packaged final version.
Well, until its not fixed I recommend to add a 3D widget, place the experimental web browser onto your UMG widget assigned to 3D widget (web browser needs to enable as its experimental) and just set a youtube or other video provider link. With the following syntax, you get a fullscreen youtube playing:
https://www.youtube.com/tv#/watch/video/control?v=YOUTBEVIDEOID
If your video is available on youtube (or just upload), this workaround works fine in packaged builds as well.
However if you use auto-exposure on camera or on post-process volume, colors may be brighter than expected so it needs to polish/play with settings.
