Playing a video on Android - mission impossible?

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I tried to play a video file on Android, and failed miserably.

  • webm - either video doesn't show at all, or it freezes. Tried both VP8 and VP9, with or without audio track
  • ogv - stutters, apparently uses too much CPU, even if bitrate/fps/resolution are low
  • OS.native-video-play() - no documentation, no error dump, and didn't play the video file
  • VideoStreamGDNative/godot-videodecoder - couldn't get from the documentation how to use it nor what it is capable of doing.

Anyone ever succeeded in playing a video on Android, and can share what their success story?

Godot version 3.2.3
in Engine by (176 points)
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Sorry, but it looks like this tape will self destruct in 5 seconds.

There was a pull request for playing videos natively made last year, but they're still working on it. Someone on the Godot subreddit has had a similar issue.

From the looks of it, video currently can't be played on Android.

by (3,164 points)

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Hi!

I'm having exactly the same problem. When I run the game in pc everything is ok but on android is a disaster :-(

by (14 points)

Exactly same problem!
for me every thing is fine in godot but on android export it didnt work at all!

did you find any solution?

by (10 points)
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