libvlc player for Unity

Minimalistic libvlc player to be used inside Unity. (Mainly for playing rtmp/rtsp streams)

Note that the wrapper is partial and doesn't include options that assets in the Asset store or https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-unity/ offers.

Requirements

-Unity 2021.3.17f1+ (might work with other ones, just not tested with)

-Win64 build target

-libvlc 3.0.19 (win64) (again, might work with other ones)

Getting Started

1. Clone

2. Download or build libvlc (https://artifacts.videolan.org/vlc/release-win64/) and copy the contents into 'Assets/Plugins/x86_64/VLC/'

   The hierarchy of the 'Assets/Plugins/x86_64/VLC/' -folder should look like this:

    */hrtfs
   
    */locale
   
    */lua
   
    */plugins
   
    */sdk
   
    */skins
   
    *axvlx.dll
   
    *libvlc.dll
   
    *libvlccore.dll
   

Note! It is important to keep the libvlc's root folder named 'VLC' as in the cloned project.

3. Open Scenes/SampleScene or drop a VLCPlayerMono.cs to a gameobject and set a target RawImage.

Press play. (some url's will take a while to load before playing; i.e. rtsp://wowzaec2demo.streamlock.net/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_115k.mov)

VLC Player Mono

Monobehaviour component that plays a video and outputs the texture to a RawImage

Raw Image

Render target

Url

URL of the playable video/stream (eg. rtsp://wowzaec2demo.streamlock.net/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_115k.mov)

Width / Height

Width and height of the video to be played, configures the internal VLC-libraries to use these dimensions. Can be left to 0 to automatically detect the dimensions and use them instead.

Autoscale RawImage

Automatically scales the target rawimage to the aspect ratio of the video. (Currently only tweaks the height to match the aspect ratio)

Acknowledgments

• https://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/doc/doxygen/html/group__libvlc.html