Can a unity dev/game dev help elucidate why you'd use vlc in unity?

For cutscene playback?

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.

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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?

	▲	ComputerGuru 7 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It’s not hard to use libavcodec to transcode, though.
	▲	kjjohnsen 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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..