Media files are not played after the project is packaged

[KorotkinAlexande (Korotkin Alexander)]

Media files are not played after the project is packaged. Everything plays in the engine editor, everything works fine.

[ClockworkOcean]

You have to manually place the media files in the movies folder.

[KorotkinAlexande (Korotkin Alexander)]

There is no movie folder in the packaging structure. I need to create it for myself, but where exactly to create it, in which folder?

[ClockworkOcean]

You make a movies folder in the content folder, and put your stuff in there.

[KorotkinAlexande (Korotkin Alexander)]

I’ve already done this, but nothing helped.

[ClockworkOcean]

You specify your movies here

After packaging, I seem to recall you have to manually make a folder called movies in the content folder and put the movies in it.

Apparently also possible to get them in the PAK file:

Packaging movies

Hi friend, i was having the same problem for some time and this is the solution i found: Go to the “Project Settings” Add the directory path of your movies folder on “Additional Non-Asset Directory to Package” Check the option “Exclude movie files when staging”. Now, all the movies will be on the pak file. I suggest you test a little to see if you added all of them and if they are working correctly, but with me all them worked with no problems. A huge thanks to “bhn_nirab” who posted this s…

[KorotkinAlexande (Korotkin Alexander)]

@Packaging movies

Hi friend, i was having the same problem for some time and this is the solution i found: Go to the “Project Settings” Add the directory path of your movies folder on “Additional Non-Asset Directory to Package” Check the option “Exclude movie files when staging”. Now, all the movies will be on the pak file. I suggest you test a little to see if you added all of them and if they are working correctly, but with me all them worked with no problems. A huge thanks to “bhn_nirab” who posted this s…

Here I made a video of how I do it, but nothing helped.
Video

[ClockworkOcean]

I just took the third person template. Made the movies folder and put an mp4 in there.

Packaged.

What engine version are you using?

[KorotkinAlexande (Korotkin Alexander)]

I’m using UE5.

[ClockworkOcean]

Well, that might be the problem.

I don’t have a copy of 5 at the moment to test, but it is a .00 release, so lots of things don’t quite work right.

[KorotkinAlexande (Korotkin Alexander)]

Yes, you’re right. Maybe they will fix the errors. Moreover, I sent a form to technical support where I described this bug.

[unit23]

I had a similar issue in 5.0.3 and it turned out after switching the level, I forgot to add the blueprint which contained the media player to run the videos. Because in-editor I was still testing with the old level it took a moment to figure this out.

[CursedBishStudio1 (CursedBishStudio)]

This worked for me. Unreal Engine: How to fix Media Player Videos not showing in UE5 with Ray Tracing or Lumen - YouTube

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[Jenkins_Gage]

What you really need is to add the directory of movies files (.mp4, .wmv, etc.) to project settings->Packaging->Additional Non-Asset Directories to Package.

[Aakburns]

@Jenkins_Gage

What you really need is to add the directory of movies files (.mp4, .wmv, etc.) to project settings->Packaging->Additional Non-Asset Directories to Package.

This is the real answer. All other answers in this thread are simply wrong.