[Movie / Media Video Playback] I can't get any of my .mp4 videos to play, is there some conversion tool I can use? Only Shootergame sample video will play

Rama · July 25, 2016, 10:07pm

Dear Epic,

I have tested with the .mp4 video that comes with the shootergame sample, under Content/Movies/LoadingScreen.mp4

If I import this .mp4 into my project as a media asset, I can hit play and it will play.

But if I make my own .mp4 files using PowerDirector12, those videos will not play when I import them.

So the repro is to make your own .mp4 video and try and import it as an asset into an unreal project.

Is there some conversion tool I can pass my .mp4 video through to make UE4 like it more?

I believe my .mp4 videos are indeed h.264 AVC codec, I know there’s a mention of this on the media framework documentation.

My question is not whether this is a known issue, my question is whether there is any conceivable solution since I currently have no way to produce video that the UE4 media framework will like

Rama

Rama · July 25, 2016, 10:44pm

#The Solution

First step: Make your video in whatever .mp4 format you like or other format that UE4 media player is not playing correctly.

Here’s what I did to get my .mp4’s playing in UE4:

I downloaded this free program:

After much research and fiddling I found this setup:

Use Google Nexus 9 profile
Click on Video settings below the basic settings
Use mpeg4 instead of h264
Use video’s original bitrate
Back under basic settings, use High quality
Can use 1920x1080 resolution!!! <<~~~~~~~~~~~~

Result: UE4 can play these videos!

Here’s a pic!

Because it is now no longer the h264 codec, UE4 likes it

However it was only nexus 9 that I could find as a profile that would also allow regular .mpeg4 codec WITH higher resolutions

Enjooooy!

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Rama