Is VideoPlayer working on UWP apps?

Windows UWP
1

Hi,
Just trying to play a video in my UWP app. I get the following error when I call VideoPlayer.GetTexture(). Works fine in Windows Desktop app.

"SharpDX.SharpDXException: 'HRESULT: [0x80070057], Module: [General], ApiCode: [E_INVALIDARG/Invalid Arguments], Message: The parameter is incorrect.
’ "

2

Share your playback code,

For UWP I am planning to try a page flip to use the system video player while MG loads in the background, unsure if this will work but, will try it very soon!

3

Hi, thanks for the answer!

I’m using a .wmv video as the source. Everything works fine as a Windows Desktop app.

Notes:

  • SpriteBatchHelper is a custom helper class
  • videoPlayer is declared as a class private field

Here is the code

    protected override void OnDraw(GameTime gameTime)
    {
        base.OnDraw(gameTime);

        if (videoPlayer.State == MediaState.Playing)
        {
            texture = videoPlayer.GetTexture();
            if (texture != null)
            {
                SpriteBatchHelper.Begin(SpriteBatchCamera.UI, SamplerState.LinearClamp);
                TinyGame.Instance.SpriteBatch.Draw(texture, new Rectangle(0, 0, 320, 180), Color.White);
                SpriteBatchHelper.End();
            }
        }
   }

Thanks

4

I think I used similar code from an old XNA book, will try it again on desktop, then this would be a bug once that is confirmed…

5

In addition, importing an MP4 video does not work in windows desktop version. An exception is raised telling that a null texture was returned. The video is correctly encoded in h.264.

My game is going to be available in various platforms. This is a potential problem for me as I can see the video features are very buggy right now. Anyway, I just use videos to present the studio and the publisher, so I think I will be ending using static images instead.

1 Like