UMediaPlayer doesn't loop in UE5.2

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I’m working on a MediaPlayer Widget to play videos in UMG. Playing videos works fine, but

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#pragma once

#include "Blueprint/UserWidget.h"
#include "Components/Image.h"
#include "Components/SizeBox.h"
#include "CoreMinimal.h"
#include "Math/UnrealMathUtility.h"

// Media Assets
#include "FileMediaSource.h"
#include "MediaPlayer.h"
#include "MediaTexture.h"

// clang-format off
#include "MediaWidget.generated.h"

UCLASS()
class MYLIBRARY_API UMediaWidget : public UUserWidget
{
	GENERATED_BODY()

	public:
        UMediaWidget(const FObjectInitializer& Object);

        UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
        void setFilePath(FString filepath);

        UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
        void playVideo();

        UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
        void pauseVideo();

        UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
        void togglePlayVideo();

        UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
        void stopVideo();

        UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable)
        void setLooping(bool isLooping);

protected:
        void NativeConstruct();
        void createMediaPlayer(FString FilePath);
        UMediaTexture* createMediaTexture(UMediaPlayer * mMediaPlayer);
        void createImageFromMediaTexture(UMediaTexture* mediaTexture);

        UMaterial* mSourceMaterial;

        bool mIsMediaPlaying = false;

        UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite);
        UMediaPlayer* mMediaPlayer;

        UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, meta = (BindWidget))
        UImage* mMediaImage;

        UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, meta = (BindWidget))
        USizeBox* mMediaSizeBox;
};

When I try set the looping:

 void UMediaWidget::setLooping(bool isLooping) {
    if (mMediaPlayer != nullptr) {
        mMediaPlayer->SetLooping(isLooping);
    } else {
        UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("mMediaPlayer is null"));
    }
 }

the video doesn’t loop in UMG, it only plays once. This seems pretty simple, so I’m not sure what the issue is – does anyone know of the issue here? Do I need to set looping on the UMediaSource isntead?

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Okay, I found my issue – looping is associated with the UMediaSource and not UMediaPlayer, so I have to set the source THEN set Looping; I can’t set looping then load a new source.