Movie Textures are animated Textures that are created from a video file. By placing a video file in your project's Assets Folder, you can import the video to be used exactly as you would use a regular Texture.

Video files are imported via Apple QuickTime. Supported file types are what your QuickTime installation can play (usually .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .avi, .asf). On Windows movie importing requires Quicktime to be installed (download here).

Properties

The Movie Texture Inspector is very similar to the regular Texture Inspector.

Video files are Movie Textures in Unity

Details

When a video file is added to your Project, it will automatically be imported and converted to Ogg Theora format. Once your Movie Texture has been imported, you can attach it to any GameObject or Material, just like a regular Texture.

Playing the Movie

Your Movie Texture will not play automatically when the game begins running. You must use a short script to tell it when to play.

// this line of code will make the Movie Texture begin playing
renderer.material.mainTexture.Play();

Attach the following script to toggle Movie playback when the space bar is pressed:

function Update () {
	if (Input.GetButtonDown ("Jump")) {
		if (renderer.material.mainTexture.isPlaying) {
			renderer.material.mainTexture.Pause();
		}
		else {
			renderer.material.mainTexture.Play();
		}
	}
}

For more information about playing Movie Textures, see the Movie Texture Script Reference page

Movie Audio

When a Movie Texture is imported, the audio track accompanying the visuals are imported as well. This audio appears as an AudioClip child of the Movie Texture.

The video's audio track appears as a child of the Movie Texture in the Project View

To play this audio, the Audio Clip must be attached to a GameObject, like any other Audio Clip. Drag the Audio Clip from the Project View onto any GameObject in the Scene or Hierarchy View. Usually, this will be the same GameObject that is showing the Movie. Then use audio.Play() to make the the movie's audio track play along with its video.