| ▲ | VLC for Unity now supported on Linux(code.videolan.org) |
| 72 points by martz 6 hours ago | 18 comments |
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| ▲ | tmtvl 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| On a similar note: Godot VLC (<https://github.com/xiSage/godot-vlc>), because let's not pretend we don't remember the Unity terms change controversy. |
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| ▲ | thih9 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Context about the Unity terms change controversy: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-is-killing-its-... > Initially, the Runtime Fee sought to charge developers a per install tariff once projects had passed certain milestones. It was a decision that left many users reeling, resulting in a colossal backlash (…) How users reacted: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/16h9lnw/whats... > Any install, any reinstall, any installation on a second device, each and every one slap the dev with a fee. It gets dumber, because that cracked copy of your game on the high seas still incurs a fee when the pirate installs it.
You might think we're at peak stupidity. You might think anyone who makes anything with Unity is a "fucking idiot" (the CEO certainly does), but we're not done yet.
It's retroactive. (…) | | |
| ▲ | benoau an hour ago | parent [-] | | Sounds similar to Apple's "Core Technology Fee", literally a mechanism for sabotaging third party app distribution in the EU. |
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| ▲ | martz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | yes this is good too, actually started contributing to this :) |
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| ▲ | martz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Recently added support for Linux to VLC for Unity, with full hardware decoding. It uses OpenGL rendering through GLX and EGL, with DMA-BUF texture sharing to pass video frames efficiently to Unity’s renderer. Only x86_64 is supported at this time. In the future, I will add ARM64 support as well as Vulkan. |
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| ▲ | sylware 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Don't forget to build 'correct' ELF64 binaries for broad elf(glibc)/linux distro support (-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++, and tight glibc ABI version control with binutils VERSION scripts). At least those build options should be default. | | | |
| ▲ | SurajMishra 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thank you very much. |
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| ▲ | fusslo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Can a unity dev/game dev help elucidate why you'd use vlc in unity? For cutscene playback? |
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| ▲ | harrisoned 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | For a sandbox game this is very useful, where you can spawn video players in-game. For social games (like VRChat) this is also great since synced video playback is a very popular feature for people to watch content together in VR. | |
| ▲ | csande17 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Unity includes its own video player implementation ( https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Video.html ), so presumably you'd mainly want to use VLC for wider range of supported codecs? | | |
| ▲ | kjjohnsen an hour ago | parent [-] | | Basically. Unity video player is fine if you control the content. The other very reasonable option is to funnel shared content through a synced web browser interface. I've developed a few collaborative XR applications, and have used a blend of things to support sharing. |
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| ▲ | martz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | RTSP support, twitch-style in-game visio, any kind of non-game Unity apps (there are many), 360 video playback, mediaplayer in VR headset, simulators of all kinds, etc.. |
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| ▲ | Hendrikto 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| To everybody else being confused: This is about Unity the game engine, not Unity the desktop environment. |
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| ▲ | ekjhgkejhgk 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Blocked because I don't use cookies. Ok, I've always preferred mpv anyway. |
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| ▲ | nisiddharth 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I've 3rd party cookies blocked and it works just fine.
Have you disabled all cookies?! | |
| ▲ | xena an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Why do you do this to yourself? |
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