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VideoStreamPlayer

Inherits: Control < CanvasItem < Node < Object

A control used for video playback.

Description

A control used for playback of VideoStream resources.

Supported video formats are Ogg Theora (.ogv, VideoStreamTheora) and any format exposed via a GDExtension plugin.

Note: Due to a bug, VideoStreamPlayer does not support localization remapping yet.

Warning: On Web, video playback will perform poorly due to missing architecture-specific assembly optimizations.

Properties

Methods

Signals

finished ( )

Emitted when playback is finished.

Property Descriptions

int audio_track = 0

• void set_audio_track ( int value )

• int get_audio_track ( )

The embedded audio track to play.

bool autoplay = false

• void set_autoplay ( bool value )

• bool has_autoplay ( )

If true, playback starts when the scene loads.

int buffering_msec = 500

• void set_buffering_msec ( int value )

• int get_buffering_msec ( )

Amount of time in milliseconds to store in buffer while playing.

StringName bus = &"Master"

• void set_bus ( StringName value )

• StringName get_bus ( )

Audio bus to use for sound playback.

bool expand = false

• void set_expand ( bool value )

• bool has_expand ( )

If true, the video scales to the control size. Otherwise, the control minimum size will be automatically adjusted to match the video stream’s dimensions.

bool paused = false

• void set_paused ( bool value )

• bool is_paused ( )

If true, the video is paused.

VideoStream stream

• void set_stream ( VideoStream value )

• VideoStream get_stream ( )

The assigned video stream. See description for supported formats.

float stream_position

• void set_stream_position ( float value )

• float get_stream_position ( )

The current position of the stream, in seconds.

Note: Changing this value won’t have any effect as seeking is not implemented yet, except in video formats implemented by a GDExtension add-on.

float volume

• void set_volume ( float value )

• float get_volume ( )

Audio volume as a linear value.

float volume_db = 0.0

• void set_volume_db ( float value )

• float get_volume_db ( )

Audio volume in dB.

Method Descriptions

String get_stream_name ( ) const

Returns the video stream’s name, or "<No Stream>" if no video stream is assigned.

Texture2D get_video_texture ( ) const

Returns the current frame as a Texture2D.

bool is_playing ( ) const

Returns true if the video is playing.

Note: The video is still considered playing if paused during playback.

void play ( )

Starts the video playback from the beginning. If the video is paused, this will not unpause the video.

void stop ( )

Stops the video playback and sets the stream position to 0.

Note: Although the stream position will be set to 0, the first frame of the video stream won’t become the current frame.