Getting started

Install

Add Udonite Video from the listing. It brings Udonite and Networking with it, and uses TextMeshPro, which every VRChat world project already has.

Put a player in the scene

Udonite > Video > Create Video Player builds one in front of the Scene view camera:

• an AVPro player, which plays YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, live streams and direct files
• a 16:9 screen, with a status overlay that shows loading, errors and "Nothing playing"
• a speaker
• the control panel and the queue, under the screen
• an empty playlist, ready to fill
• AudioLink, when it is already in the scene and not listening to anything yet

Every piece is an ordinary GameObject. Move the panel to where people stand, scale the screen to fit a wall, or delete what you do not want. The first player also imports TextMeshPro's essential resources if the project has not yet.

That one menu item is all there is. Everything else is on the player's Inspector, under Add to it.

Try it

Press Build & Test in the VRChat SDK panel. Paste a link into the panel's field and press Enter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ

Enter adds the link to the queue, or plays it at once when nothing is playing. A link that asks for a start time starts there for everyone: ?t=90, &t=1m30s and ?start=90 all work, which is what YouTube's Share button gives you.

Launch two clients from Build & Test to watch them stay together: pause on one, and the other pauses on the same frame.

A link VRChat does not trust needs Allow Untrusted URLs on in each player's settings, and the panel says so when that is why a video failed. YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo are trusted in an uploaded world. A local test build logs every domain as untrusted, YouTube included; that warning alone does not stop a video.

Add a playlist

The player plays its playlist when the queue runs out. Select the player, fill the VideoPlaylist component's urls, and leave titles empty for YouTube links: the playlist's Fetch YouTube titles button looks each one up and fills it in.

Turn on autoplay on the VideoPlayer to start the playlist when the instance opens, and shuffle on the playlist to play it in random order.

From an editor script it is the same thing:

VideoPlaylist playlist = VideoSetup.AddPlaylist(player, autoplay: true);
VideoSetup.AddToPlaylist(playlist, "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqz-KE-bpKQ");
VideoSetup.AddToPlaylist(playlist, "https://example.com/intro.mp4", "Welcome");
VideoSetup.FetchTitles(playlist);

Lock it to staff

The lock button on the panel, or startLocked on the player, keeps the controls with the instance owner, the master and the display names in moderators. Everyone else can still change their own volume and reload their own picture.

A locked player also refuses to give its ownership to anyone else, so a modified client cannot take it over.

More screens and AudioLink

Drop any renderer on Another screen in the player's Inspector: it shows the same video, with its own letterboxing. A TV mesh, a projector wall and a phone in a player's hand can all show one player.

AudioLink added after the player gets a Connect AudioLink to this player button on the player's Inspector, which points it at the player's speaker.