Handheld video playback pauses when going to the home screen

Question

Put an MP4 movie in your StreamingAssets folder and play it with

Handheld.PlayFullScreenMovie("MyMovie.mp4", Color.black, FullScreenMovieControlMode.CancelOnInput);

Then, in the middle of the movie, go to the home screen and then go back to the game. The video is paused.

You can't resume it because upon tapping the screen the video will disappear because of the CancelOnInput parameter (which I want to keep).

So - how can I make it so when the player returns to the game, the video resumes? I don't want to show video controls.

I am using Unity Pro 5.4.2, running on an iPhone 7 with iOS 10.1.

Answer 1

All I can offer is a workaround.

Use Object.DontDestroyOnLoad to make the object persistent. Pause the video, and after detecting which screen I am in, if it is the main menu:

if (SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex == 0) //main menu
{
   GetComponent(MeshRenderer).enabled = false; //hide the video.
}
if (SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex == 1) //game screen
{
   GetComponent(MeshRenderer).enabled = true; //also play the movie
}

You can also keep some Player Preferences and pull it in to other scenes to destroy the persistent video, when you don't need it.