The first frames are skipped when playing a video

Unity: Video

As Designed

6.1.X

6.0.X

2022.3.X

When "play on awake" is checked, the video starts playing before the scene is even fully loaded, thats why you see what looks like frames skipped, but if you can tolerate that the video clock only starts when the first frame is received - at the cost of not preserving sync with game time - you should check "Wait for first frame". Also if you use other ways to start the video play, like a C# script that starts the video player by looking at SceneManager.sceneLoaded which would yield better results than play on awake.

Reproduction steps:
1. Open the attached project "ReproProj"
2. Open the “/Assets/Scenes/SampleScene.unity” Scene
3. Build and Run
4. Observe the video in Player

Expected result: Video is played from the start
Actual result: The Player skips the first frames of the video

Reproducible with: 2022.2.0a16, 2022.3.52f1, 6000.0.27f1, 6000.1.0a4
Not reproducible with: 2021.3.45f1, 2022.2.0a15

Reproducible on:
Play Mode
Windows Standalone Player
VLNQA00325, Samsung Galaxy Note10 (SM-N970F), Android 12, CPU: Exynos 9 (9825), GPU: Mali-G76
VLNQA00318, Oneplus OnePlus 7 Pro (GM1913), Android 11, CPU: Snapdragon 855 SM8150, GPU: Adreno (TM) 640
Vivo X90 (Mediatek Dimensity 9200), Redmi K60U(Mediatek Dimensity 9200+) (user reported)

Testing environment: Windows 10 Enterprise 21H2
Not reproducible on: MacOs 15.1

Note:

Reproducible with OpenGLES3 and Vulkan

The first frames are skipped when playing a video

Unity: Video

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