UE4 Media Player to Render a Media Texture

[@yaschan99]

Again one of the best tutorials in KZbin. So easy to understand and effective.

[@hmee8941]

Hi Thank you for this! I have a problem at 1:20 where the dialog shows no audio option. Even though the video plays with sound in the preview, there is no sound when playing the level?

[@weirdshit]

goto 12 in the following link. docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/MediaFramework/HowTo/FileMediaSource/index.html

[@FoxRedTail]

@@weirdshit I love you dude.

[@VacGiz69]

@@weirdshit Thank you

[@aleszubek176]

in my case media overlay and open source options are missing

[@tarekwayne9193]

Unreal user who just started using Unity here, this is 10x easier in Unity. You simply drag and drop the mp4 on the object and it's ready to go. This isn't a statement of preference, just a fact.

[@tarekwayne9193]

Thanks btw for the video🙌

[@GeometricPidgeon]

ok

[@simonew.1261]

So? I can name other 50 thing that are faster and user-friednly to do in UE than in Unity. But this not the place to make a total random sentence just to say "eheheh look at me im a unity dev we used to do it bla bla bla" but still you're on a video tutorial of UE. Whos the dumb here, this isnt a statement based on a prejudice - just a fact.

[@c-losnyc355]

good lord man! you fucking did it! i watched so many tutorials and yours is the only one that worked..thank you so much, ffs!!!

[@JayAnAm]

Great, but I will come up with a new tutorial about this, because there are some changes to the api for the media components in 4.18

[@c-losnyc355]

hey! i have a problem, maybe you can help me..the video if flipped...it wont play in landscape mode, only in potrait....is there a way to solve that?

[@JayAnAm]

Hi, how about rotating the plane?

[@screwball992]

@@JayAnAm I would like to know how to rotate and scale the video I have looked everywhere? Thank you.

[@Pleyox]

Works like a charm, thanks a lot for sharing this.

[@JayAnAm]

Thx, you are welcome

[@theolgrj7717]

Hey, i have a problem, where at 1:39 it is supposed to show the video, it's not showing anything, it's just pitch black. What should i do ?

[@zuzana7366]

change in project setting directx from 12 to 11

[@terrablader]

dam man!!! ok where is my sound not asking for a sound file. already subscribed

[@Gichanasa]

Thank you for a nice tutorial. Having a hard time playing back the audio portion of the video. Using Unreal Engine 4.27.2 here, @1:17 when the Create Media Player window pops up, the Audio Output Soundwave asset is not available, and only the Video Output Texture Asset is available. Is there a way to add the audio playback with another asset type, Bluprint, or other methods? EDIT: I think I figured it out. You can produce a Media Sound Component in the Blueprint, and connect the output of the Open Source to the input of the Add Media Sound Component. The sound and the video playback together fine. Keep up the nice work!

[@debashishbwn]

Hi, media player is not showing option for creating Audio. Pls help

[@rotoguru]

Under the static mesh component of the Plane add a MediaSound component as explained here: docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/MediaFramework/HowTo/FileMediaSource/index.html

[@The9PointStar]

How can i play a mediaplayer video on Sequencer mode? its all black

[@clam8418]

Have you tried double clicking the thing your trying to play?

[@aritramajumder3194]

Your Voice is really good man.Very nice tutorial.Moake more videos like this😊😊😊😊

[@DamasUnreal]

help-me , in unreal 4.18 dont have AUDIO OPTION in create media player , help me please ;-;

[@alexNMNK]

me too... maybe you have solution for this already... I catched this trouble today only...

[@nizarshawwa3704]

My problem is, how to do I get the media component while im inside a "Widget", the media component can be attained in "Level Blueprint" but I cant seem to be able to get it while im inside a Widget. :/

[@Kwix]

yes and if that's all you're looking for just skip to about 20:00 minutes in for the explanation.

[@KobraVR]

This is for anyone using 4.18 or newer : Once you have created your static mesh (the thing you dragged and dropped the media texture on to create the material) you click on the actual static mesh object in-game and on the right menu bar where it says DETAILS, under that click ADD COMPONENT and in the searchbar type in Mediasound. Select that MediaSound. Now on that sub-menu under 'Media' tab you can now select the NewMediaPlayer which will now play the audio from that NewMediaPlayer as well as the images.

[@JamesPlaysJP]

Falandorn thank you so much, I couldn’t find anything to help me until I found your comment, I’m subbing to you

[@boldganbaatar7023]

UE 4.27 there is no "audio output soundwave asset" when i Create Media Player what should i do?

[@chandishkistoo8916]

no sound file option available

[@Chipitowo]

me too

[@mohammadmuwafi3623]

create a blueprint for the mesh you want to show the video on and add a sound component with auto activate checked

[@TorQueMoD]

I don't get the checkbox for Sound when creating the media player.

[@Schytheron]

The music from the video sounds like the music from The Witcher 3

[@JayAnAm]

Really... haha... don't know this.

[@SanjarArabov-f4o]

hello An error is observed in the media player during path tracer rendering. the video freezes. Please advise how I can fix it

[@ДенисКраснов-з3н]

How to display video in html5? in html5 doesn't show. tell me please!

[@edwardphantom]

i'm in the same boat , any news ?

[@siddharthpaul6539]

great! but how can i put video plane in sequencer and render it out

[@oak-mg6rc]

How to make 2 screens with differents contents ? Please help

[@bolbolegypttuber]

Thank you it is works with me ...

[@MKD-fe5vf]

I'm way to late but how do I bring a video into sequencer so I can have it play in there as part of my sequencer video?

[@Zoids-bf6op]

how do u make it fit to the size of the square? like so its not cut off

[@nicomartinez92]

Maybe respecting the same aspect ratio of your video in the dimensions of your plane? Just tried this and seems to be working.

[@Zoids-bf6op]

@@nicomartinez92 man tat was 2yrs ago. i graduated and solved this alr xD Thnks anyway hahah!

[@nicomartinez92]

@@Zoids-bf6op it's never too late to help lol. I'm learning Unreal now and had the same question.

[@RoyalRussian92]

THANK YOU! super easy to follow

[@hamstermagee2882]

Thanks this tutorial helped me a lot

[@hortenIX]

really cool.. thx a lot.. fast & direct.

[@JayAnAm]

Thx man!

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

do you know how to make this work on a 360 video? everytime i set in on a sphere surface, it sort of divides the video on parts instead of stretching out

[@JayAnAm]

Well, this is due to uv unwrapping. The uv unwrapping has to be done in a way that doesn't split the uv islands, that they keep connected to one part.

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

been working hard on this shit, and i managed to make the video to be fully viewed on the sphere, but now i want it to work on an inverted normals sphere mesh, which i imported from blender, but when i play the video on the sphere, all i see is the light from the video

[@NicolasSilvaVasault]

Jayanam well i finally solved it, i had to apply double sided material to my mesh, but that means it's gonna render it twice, i don't see why inverted normals didn't work

[@troyar]

Hello, a question, update from version 4.15 to version 4.18 and when I opened my project the audio of the video stopped working and when trying to add a new media player I only get the box for Video Output Media Texture asset, now the videos it reproduces without sound ... to nobody else happens to him? a greeting.

[@JayAnAm]

Yes, they split it up into two components, will create a video about this.

[@troyar]

I already imagined, what component you recommended for the audio, I tried with a CUE but if I move away from the radio and then the audio starts again from the beginning and that is a problem of audio / video synchronization, in my project there is a several tv playing clips of characters, with the new version I have hunchbacked a lot :(

[@srcclouston]

I love the wideo! Thx.

[@mariiwhitaker7553]

The Check Box Option of Audio doesn't appear for me

[@aklar_45]

Very relaxing tut!

[@hansoethet]

I have a problem. when I render animation. the movie runs like 10 times faster than normal speed. any way to fix it? thanks

[@simons3943]

Hey jayanam thanks for the tutorial seams very straight forward. Im just curious if it is also possible to have that screen move in space and special be maybe stretched/modeled wile playing the video? how would that work with the tiling? Im thinking of something similar to a house of mirrors with bend mirrors but build out of screens that play videos. would be amazing if that works in a way that it stretches the video accordingly.

[@JayAnAm]

Thx! I never tried it but it should work when scaling the model I think.

[@simons3943]

Jayanam thanks for the quick answer I’ll try it

[@devonroyer8044]

@@simons3943 you could use a texture coordinate and stretch it like that

[@BenjiDev]

i have a question what happens if the video changes file path? should i copy the video into the projects for safe keeping?

[@TheRomansramek]

Thank you for the instructions.

[@yantingye1677]

hi,do you know how to Playing a MOV Video with a Alpha Channel in UE4?

[@deeptobhattacharyya3249]

but is the static mesh emissive, can I get the effects in dark?

[@ronenosity]

Thanks for the tutorial - any suggestions on how I can play a MediaTexture backwards?

[@TrojanLube69]

Edit the video.

[@TheHardSteppa]

I agree - re-encode if you can. Video codecs often work on the basis on the video playing forward. Playing them backwards can completely destroy playback performance.

[@benoitc5266]

Thanks for that helpful tutorial. Question : why you don't use the level blueprint instead of a specific ? It appears that using the level blueprint interact with beginplay that could be useful to capture a sequence scene or something. Thx !

[@dbrezy2080]

thank you for making this video!!!!

[@JamieBrooks179]

What should i do if i am using the Event Begin Play for something else on the level blue print and i cannot use it for this> Any help would be appreciated

[@iWarDy97]

now what do you do if you want the movie to emit the light it produces around the room? as i would like it do exactly that! thanks

[@Totoveral]

How do i do this on matinee? How to set start time, play rate etc... how to get these controls to render a sequence?

[@JayAnAm]

Don't use the matinee, use the sequencer for this, you can animate everything there. I have some tutorials about Sequencer, checkout the UE tutorials.

[@pstuddy]

what kind of wizardry is this???? you are amazing!!! 😁

[@JayAnAm]

haha... thank you!

[@jeremyortiz4067]

Thank you for your tutorial! Very easy to follow. I have a question. Can I have 2 different videos in the same level? 2 planes and each plane with a different video? Is this possible? In case that is possible: how to do it? Thank you.

[@princess_hd]

Have you found a solution ?

[@conception3509]

Comment is from waaaay back and I guess you know it by now. For anyone new: Just make another Media player in your content folder and make another media player variable to point to that new media player. Then you can have 2 or more videos at the same time.

[@joseluispcr]

Great tutorial, thanks so much

[@cullyduff]

After i create the file media source, I have a blank box nothing to select, what am I doing wrong?

[@gargantuan6241]

How do you control the volume of the video shown on the plane?

[@jmpsoliz]

Great tutorial, thanks a lot. You forgot to tell us how to loop it ;-)

[@waseemhaji2372]

when i make it like that and i change the position of TPS camera and socketed to the head.. when the media finish, it will change the position of the camera too.. i dont know why???

[@kyliehehe364]

Does the Videos loop? Or does it just end

[@cosmicechoes42]

Hey it is becoming black when I'm starting game. Why is it ?

[@majidovgokdal2439]

Hello and thank you for this tutorial, but i have and issue i did the same as it shown on the video but the screen is white i use UE4 4.25.4 i don't know if the problem has to do with the version or something els ... do u have any idea please ?

[@purplecookie687]

Did you fix this I had the same issue

[@majidovgokdal2439]

@@purplecookie687 Hi, yes it was version issue as I remember, Well try to select the MediaPlayer in your MediaTexture. Because the older versions was selected by default but the in recents you have to dit manually. Good luck

[@nima3359]

Is it possible to make the material reflective and transparent so that it looks like it is a glass shard where the video is projected on? + Does your tutorial also work with nonstatic objects?

[@pavelnevasilevskiy4196]

Hi! Show the link to the previous video where you created the movie. Also, what resolution is ok? And, I just can’t follow your tut in ue4.10...

[@_m.illy_]

It's not working when im about to put the next video. It dont want to start. Any sugestions?

[@samehbijo]

Well done , but what I don't like is how the voice doesn't match with the action and that you missed mentioning some smaller details like when you drag the Media Player Node in the blueprint and clicked get Media Player instead of Set Media player ,

[@321Green1Fork123]

What if you want to have multiple planes with multiple videos?

[@Bk00008]

How can I do it if i want to put a program inside the game 🤔

[@alexNMNK]

GREAT thanks for tutorial... but I have one problem... when I create MediaPlayer, I don't see checkbox for Audio... only for Video... mp4... with sounds... and so important... Player play it with voice....

[@JayAnAm]

Thx, which version of UE are you using?

[@alexNMNK]

Jayanam 4.18.... maybe for 4.18 something different?

[@JayAnAm]

Yes, in 4.18 the audio is a separate component, it is called MediaSoundComponent

[@alexNMNK]

Jayanam thanks man. I will try...

[@alexNMNK]

Oh, man. You have a big experience. Maybe you have solution for one more problem.... I have problem with Tessellation... but I know “why”... my wall have a low amount of polygons... I use SketchUp for modeling, and it is problem....maybe you have simply solution... about export to blender or etc I know... thanks man

[@mustafaalqaragholy8159]

wow thats so dam complicated compared to just dragging a video on a surface as an animated texture like you do in c4d

[@lux_art_studios]

I do not know why the audio is not generated, can someone help me?

[@ghalebesite3926]

Very efficient tutorial. I have a question. After packaging the game, the video file will be shown on content folder and thus everyone can play it. I know it unity it converts to .resource file, so one one can't open it. But unreal engine will show the real format.

[@AustinKU123]

Thats not a question. Thats a correct statement

[@hortenIX]

in ue5 activate the electra player plugins to have it working..

[@EvilNando]

wow very useful thank you!!

[@njoybaker]

do you know that the video material looks blurry in the viewport and if you turn off anti aliasing in settings, it looks perfect but rest of the scene gets affected due to this.Can you make a seperate tutorial on it that how to keep enable anti aliasing on for the scene except the video texture plane?

[@javiermendoza1999]

Hey dude! Is it possible to add a video to a mesh that is wrapping around something?

[@DeepakKashid]

How to add two + video texture at same time for different two Tvs please help ??

[@codykallas]

You should be able to just do this same process twice and apply it to 2 different planes.

[@benhardwiesner6963]

How taxing is this? Can I slap 5 different videos onto city billboards without having to worry or does even a single one bring noticable fps drops?

[@Kwix]

So glad this worked! Question. How do I cancel the video Via another Keypress?

[@curranh.8328]

I was scrolling comments - I'm not sure if this helps you, now, but you can open project settings and there's a field for "Movies are Skippable."

how off video with press one button?

[@AnubisTheMaster]

how do do this using the CinemaCamera to record videos for export?

[@AnubisTheMaster]

sequencer that's what i meant

[@AndreaAvellinoVideo]

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I'm trying to make this work on a vr template, I follow perfectly every step of your tutorial but when I go in the VR preview the video simply won't play, do you have any clue of why this is not working? Thank you again

[@RouxArtProductions]

click on the actual static mesh object in-game and on the right menu bar where it says DETAILS, under that click ADD COMPONENT and in the search bar type in Mediasound. Select that MediaSound. Now on that sub-menu under 'Media' tab you can now select the NewMediaPlayer which will now play the audio from that NewMediaPlayer as well as the images. (From a previous comment that fixed my issue as well)

[@missmountaintop9878]

@Jayanam great video man! I'm seeing the video on my plane, but it's very dark. Is there a way to brighten the video texture without adding additional lights to the room (it's supposed to be a dark environment)

[@RouxArtProductions]

go onto the material blueprint that works for the mesh and branch out the node from rgb to emissive color as well

[@VineetDhareshwargoa]

in 4.16 there is no open source instead i m seeing open level ,where is open source can u pls explain

[@bhplanet1921]

how do i make the video loop

[@EpicxNL]

@1:40 check loop in the Details panel

[@alexNMNK]

hey man. I really need your help. I added a some videos to my "game". But I have a big problem after packing for Windows - all this movies not played... ((( but when I simulated before packing - everything is worked... I think, only you could give me advice... Don’t worry about it... I found... I must keep my video in this path... Content\Movies

[@alexNMNK]

Don’t worry about it... I found... I must keep my video in this path... Content\Movies

[@beautyofletters]

how to looop the video in the options dear

[@razaj5561]

can u import from your phone media after the build?

[@Arlski]

Thank you!!! You are the best!

[@toonyfatninjas]

how do you create ingame video game consoles that play games!? like the movie one you did? but with games like snes, or nes or any game. I want to make an open world with tons of content like GTA and minecraft combine. I want to setup a shop where players can buy game consoles take it to there homes and setup with the ability to insert cd's or cartridges that would play games. so they would buy the console and a game or two to play with at home or where ever they want via using a tv. how do I make something like? this would go into detail, from buying the console carrying it home or vie car or backpack or however, to placing it on the table or floor or even on top of tv or wherever, and setting it up by connecting the wires on to the tv and from the game console to the power outlet. then inserting the game cartridge or cd or whatever ( each game box will come with labels and cover) and then they turn on the ingame game console where they get a home screen menu from there they can setup some stuff. such as allocating harddrive space and adding a movie, music playlist and webbrowsing and some other media stuff. like graphics for like computer games where they can lower the graphics. this way if they can buy an old computer and still play some pc games kinda like a real console and computers would have. can you make a tutorial covering all this? I think you get the picture so! feel free to add something i may have miss.

[@Paul-Kumaritov]

Video is not playing

[@antonygp3666]

Thank you very much! ^^

[@Tryfieldanimas]

nice but how the player can keep control over the clip ( Tv ) ? Greetings ;)

[@SirPaulMuaddib]

Do you have a link to project we can use?

[@thelurkingpanda3605]

How to include opacity / alpha?

[@FreakSheepVODS]

Oke some hiw i dont get the audio

[@3dfvan640]

great tut as always, Im trying to use the mp4-on-a-plane as a backplate for a compositing project, any tips on having the video conform to native resolution, and then also syncing its time to the sequencer? thnx thnx

[@anaslaham8040]

can't find the open source thing when i search !!

[@WeeklyComedian]

turn off context search when creating nodes

[@Tsunkuotaku]

doesn't work in UE4.20. I just get a black square.

[@malickdk]

Thanks for the tut

[@Alice-oi2im]

Thanks !!!!

[@mymozzza]

what is the video format is it wav avi mp4 mp3 seriously i have no idea, every tutorial has different format and none of them works

[@silvaright]

I just used .mp4 and it worked, exported the video as H.264 from Premiere Pro

[@BarbaNeggra]

Awesome!!! Thanks!!!

[@JayAnAm]

You are very welcome

[@mateuscosta5359]

you helped me a lot

[@GONZALEZ1974]

obrigado!

[@JayAnAm]

You're welcome

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

Will this work for 4.13 to ...

[@Alan-sl7dm]

For some reason this makes udk use up all my ram and slows down everything to the point where I can't even undo it on the editor. what the heck

[@SirSimon-xu4ik]

Thanks bro :D