Media Framework Source field bug

Hello.

I just started learn about Media Framework and found interesting bug.

In docs has info

The MediaPlayer asset represents a
player for a media source such as a
movie file on disk or a streaming
media URL on the internet
.

I want to play URL http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4 with MediaPlayer and I paste in the field Source - File or URL link http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4 .

But after paste field converted link to C:/Program Files/Epic Games/4.7/Engine/Binaries/Win64/http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4

Why and how to fix?

Hi Arthur,

This will be fixed in 4.8. If you want to fix it locally on your own, check out the following GitHub commits:

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commit/c1a0165d1827b674e66156ea8ddba8e0c3fa2000
https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine/commit/c28bc94155e82d9d427b5bf8bbe9ad220874194b

Another hot fix was needed. Should work in 4.8.1.

Hello.

H264 streaming still not working on Windows… F***ng Windows Media Framework!!!

You can try the unofficial VLC plug-in, but it’s still in an early stage, and no audio/caption support. Pull requests welcome: GitHub - ue4plugins/VlcMedia: Media Framework plug-in using the Video LAN Codec (libvlc).

Hi!

I am compiling editor with this plugin right now.

I found project of this plug-in on your GitHub profile.

Hello, Gerke Max Preussner.

I compiled UE source with your plugin.

After that I disabled WMF plugin in my project settings:

http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/videos/big_buck_bunny.mp4

http://s6.postimg.org/pwzel39m9/screenshot_172.png

and I keep enabled your VLC plugin:

http://s6.postimg.org/kmuftspdd/screenshot_173.png

After that I set up MediaPlayer:

http://s6.postimg.org/y51c631ip/screenshot_174.png

After that when I press Play button - “Stopped” flashed and nothing happened.

It still not working? :slight_smile:

Crashed on AVI file:
link text

Crashed on MKV file: link text

It’s worked!
You are great!
But it crashed once.
link text

Working for me on local files but not with url (4.8.2)

Correct. It is fixed in 4.9 (main UE repo at GitHub) with plugin GitHub - ue4plugins/VlcMedia: Media Framework plug-in using the Video LAN Codec (libvlc). . You need compile sources from repo with this plugin.