How to Setup a URL or Embedded Video Player

• Add a BPM_VideoPlayer to your level.

• Add a BPM_VideoPlayerControl to your level.

Web URL:

• In Editor, select the VideoPlayer. A Web URL can be selected to play on start up by adding the desired URL to M2Video-> Src in the details section.

• While in game, open the control panel by clicking on it (assuming use of a role with permissions to use control panels such as director). The Web URL can be updated in here by editing the Video URL section.

Note: Video quality & performance are expected to degrade when streaming more than 1 video via URL at a time

Embedded Video:

1. 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

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

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

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

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

   

   This should result in:

   
6. 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