Windows Desktop Platform

Plugin Specs

• Compatibility
  • Unity 5.6 - 2017.x - 2021.x are supported
  • Supported CPU architectures are 32-bit and 64-bit x86
  • Windows XP (SP3) - 10 are supported, however some versions of Windows allow for more features than others
• Rendering
  • For rendering we support Direct3D 11, Direct3D 12 (requires minimum Unity 2019.3)
  • Multi-threaded rendering is supported
• Internals
  • Under the hood we’re using the Media Foundation and DirectShow API’s. Media Foundation supported on Windows 8 and above, and DirectShow is supported from Windows XP.
  • The only 3rd-party libraries used in the Windows Desktop binaries are:
    • GDCL Mpeg-4 https://github.com/roman380/gdcl.co.uk-mpeg4
    • GLEW http://glew.sourceforge.net/

Supported Codecs

See the Codecs section for more information.

Troubleshooting

Windows N / KN editions

• There are some editions of Windows (N and KN) that ship with greatly reduced built-in media playback capabilities.
• It seems like these editions don’t include MFPlat.DLL, but do include some basic DirectShow components. This means the Media Foundation playback path will not work.
• These editions of Windows require either a 3rd party codec installed (such as the LAV Filters for DirectShow), or the Microsoft Media Feature Pack:
  • Media Feature Pack for Windows 7 SP1 https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=16546
  • Media Feature Pack for Windows 8.1 https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=40744
  • Media Feature Pack for Windows 10 https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=48231