Hi,
i’m trying to build a 3D viewer with a video player in Unreal for Android but i can’t find a way to read the video file frome the storge of the devices.
I need to play 360° video and i got a 2GB limits on mobile so i need to play directly from storage.
I can play the video if it’s in the obb installer but i want to read from the “movies” folder of the devices itself.
I request and check android permission (android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) in a blueprint and i got “True” but i can’t read any files.
I tested different path like
I’m doing something similar
my media file assets are already pointing to videos in the movies folder
when i debug log the url of what the media player is playing it says
“MediaPlayer opened file://…/…/…/U419P4GearVR360vid/Content/Movies/3.mp4”
where U419P4GearVR360vid is my project
Hi,
i can play any video if it’s inside the packeging file made in Unreal, with the classic Content/Movie folder, but i want to load the file from the storage of the devices.
So i want to have something like “MediaPlayer opened file://storage/emulate/0/Myfolder/MyVideo.mp4”.
But there is no way to open the** .exo** file since it is encrypted and the video file is split into chunks of** .exo** files. Even if you have one offline video stored in your phone you can find more than one** .exo** file under Internal Storage. They are nothing but the encrypted exo files that can only be opened through the Youtube App.
Hello there,
first of all, you must build a simple app, with maybe one video. Then, for other videos use an open URL function into blueprint with file:///storage/emulated/0/Myfolder/MyVideo.mp4, and then instead of building the app, try quick launch. It does the job in my case.
