Vulkan Media Player is a fully open-sourced plugin that supports hardware-accelerated video decoding on Linux. Your Unreal game can now play MP4 video on Linux!

Attention:

1. Find more information on the official website: https://unrealsolutions.com/docs/products/vulkan-media-player/
   

2. Here is Demo build that features Video/Audio recording + Video Playback (Linux only!):
   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jFI02VpHMiaZ2DMfa07EpzDb77XMCKeM/view?usp=drive_link
   

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/pBDSCBcdgv

Features:

• Hardware-accelerated video decoding using Vulkan Video API (H.264 only)

• MP4 container format support with demuxing capabilities

• GPU-based YUV to RGB color space conversion for efficient video rendering

• Thread-safe media playback with background decoding worker threads

• Playback controls including play, pause, seek, loop, and rate control

• On-demand decoding with intelligent buffering and pre-buffering support

• B-frame reordering support for proper video frame display order

• Integration with Unreal Engine Media Framework (MediaPlayer, MediaTexture, MediaSound)

• Audio decoding support (fdk-aac on Linux platforms)