[Deprecated] Embedded Video Player

Add relevant Actors to your level

1. BPM_VideoPlayer

2. BPM_VideoPlayerControl

Ensure your video is the correct format (as required by Unreal's Electra media player) We test video assets encoded with ffmpeg. To install ffmpeg, you can run a powershell terminal (as Administrator) as run choco install ffmpeg (or download from their website).

Then, for a given video called in.mp4 you can run:

ffmpeg.exe -i in.mp4 -crf 28 -preset slow out.mp4

Place the encoded out.mp4 video into your Content/Movies folder in your project (create the Movies folder yourself if you need to)

Create an M2 File Media Source by right-clicking in your Content Browser and selecting:

Name your asset whatever you like, e.g. TestVideo, then double-click to open it

In the right-hand panel, select your video asset from the Content/Movies folder you put it in:

This should result in:

Lastly, either in PiE or after uploading your content, launching a world, and connecting in:

1. Ensure you are Director mode in order to be able to manage the video player control

2. Right-click to display your cursor and click video player control

3. Select your video asset from the Embedded Video drop-down list