linecode/ffmpegmedia

Unreal FFMPEG Plugin to support more video formats and alpha videos

FFMPEG Media Plugin for unreal engine

A plugin that let's you use the FFMPEG library as media player

Features:

• Works on Windows and Mac
• Support for hardware accelerated codecs
• Support for videos with alpha

How to use

1. The plugin works with Unreal 4.26
2. You can clone the repository to <Game>/Plugins/ or if you want you can use git submodules to your own git repository. Alternatively, you can copy to the Engine/Plugins/ if you wish to make the plugin available to all of your projects.

   Do not forget to run UE4's Generate Project Files to account for these changes!

3. Follow the steps to play a video tutorial but insead of using the automatic player, choose the FFMPEGPlayer inside the players overrides for the step 5.