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VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

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fusslotoday at 11:51 AM

Can a unity dev/game dev help elucidate why you'd use vlc in unity?

For cutscene playback?

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martztoday at 9:06 AM

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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ekjhgkejhgktoday at 11:32 AM

Blocked because I don't use cookies. Ok, I've always preferred mpv anyway.

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