VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

4 comments

• tmtvl 29 minutes ago
  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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  • martz 3 minutes ago
    yes this is good too, actually started contributing to this :)
• martz 3 hours ago
  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 1 hour ago
    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.

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    • martz 3 minutes ago
      thanks for your comment, will look into it!
  • SurajMishra 1 hour ago
    Thank you very much.
• fusslo 35 minutes ago
  Can a unity dev/game dev help elucidate why you'd use vlc in unity?

  For cutscene playback?

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  • csande17 5 minutes ago
    [delayed]
  • martz 4 minutes ago
    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..
  • harrisoned 27 minutes ago
    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.
• ekjhgkejhgk 54 minutes ago
  Blocked because I don't use cookies. Ok, I've always preferred mpv anyway.