Ensuring a movie is prepared before playing

In the preceding recipe, the movie has time to be prepared since the game waits until we press the jump/Spacebar key. If we are using scripting to set up a video player for a video clip, we need to do some initial work before the video is ready to play. Unity provides the prepareCompleted event for this, which allows us to register a method to be invoked once VideoPlayer is ready to play.

Getting ready

This recipe follows on from the previous one, so make a copy of that and work on the copy.

How to do it...

To ensure a movie is prepared before it’s played by subscribing to a prepareCompleted event, do the following:

1. Add a UI RawImage to the scene by going to GameObject | UI | Raw Image.
2. Create a new, empty GameObject named video-object.
3. Create a C# script class named PrepareCompleted and attach an instance of the script as a component to the video-object GameObject:

   using UnityEngine...