{"id":99353,"date":"2026-06-05T19:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/mccinema\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T19:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:58:35","slug":"mccinema","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/mccinema\/","title":{"rendered":"MCCinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paper plugin to play back video (and audio) in-game without the use of clientside mods. <\/p>\n

## Features
\n* Play local MP4\/MKV\/AVI\/WEBM files or download videos directly from YouTube (optional)
\n* Automatic resource pack generation and hosting for synchronized audio playback
\n* True 1080p or even 4K playback with efficient tile-based rendering
\n * Only limit is the server and player bandwidth.
\n* Improved bandwidth usage. Down to 8 MB\/s for a really large (2176×896) screen.
\n* Significantly improved visual quality
\n * Floyd-Steinberg, Stucki or Atkinson dithering with temporal noise reduction
\n* Full playback controls: pause, resume, seek, and skip
\n * Audio is sliced into seamless chunks to work around Minecraft’s audio limitations
\n* Various compression techniques are used to reduce bandwidth usage as much as possible by only updating whats actually needed
\n * Selective updating, downsampling, dirty region detection and more<\/p>\n

## Basic usage
\n_All commands have helpful tab-completion available_
\n1) Use `\/mcc create [x] [y]` while looking at the lower left corner to create a screen
\n * Tip: Make sure your screen is evenly lit, e.g. using light blocks.
\n2) Place your video `.mp4` files in `\/plugins\/MCCinema\/videos\/`
\n3) Use `\/mcc play

To download videos from YouTube, run `\/mcc download`.
\nThere is some first-time setup required for this. You will be asked to confirm the yt-dlp download. Due to YTs anti-bot measures, you also may need to install a JS runtime on your machine for yt-dlp to work properly.
\nBut of course you can also always download YouTube videos manually and place them in \/videos\/ yourself!<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

**A note on bandwidth usage:** <\/p>\n

This plugin will inevitably create a lot of traffic. Minecraft isn’t really a great video player. <\/p>\n

This is optimized as best as possible (and likely better than many similar plugins), however it can still be a lot. <\/p>\n

The actual amount of traffic scales with two factors: Screen size, and how dynamic the video is. Videos with very little movement such as slideshows will barely generate any traffic.
\nYou can see live metrics, including bandwidth usage, using `\/mcc debug `. However note that those metrics are before compression. You can press F3+3 to get the built-in bandwidth graph, which will give you after compression bandwidth.<\/p>\n

**One example on a reasonably sized (7×4 blocks, 896×512) screen:**
\n– Server Trailer: Average 3 MB\/s
\n * This screen size gives you good enough resolution for most content<\/p>\n

**Two examples on a very large (17×7 blocks, 2176×896) screen:**<\/p>\n

Using Velocity with `compression-threshold: 256` and `compression-level: 4`
\n– Bad Apple: Average 400 KB\/s
\n * Only two colors, pillarboxing on both sides, many large same-color areas -> lower bandwidth usage
\n– Bite Marks: Average 8 MB\/s
\n * Many colors, full CS format, very quick scenes -> high bandwidth usage<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

## Configuration
\nYou can find a full, commented configuration file here<\/p>\n

### Additional notes:
\n– This plugin makes heavy use of multi-threading and benefits from more and faster CPU cores significantly.
\n– Video and audio are streamed, so RAM usage should not be a meaningful concern. However, this plugin will create considerable GC pressure.
\n– It is recommended to use a Velocity proxy in front of your server, and to then disable `network-compression-threshold` in `server.properties`. Doing so will offload the work of compressing and encrypting packets to the proxy, which can significantly improve performance and throughput. If that is not possible, increasing `netty-threads` in spigot.yml might be worth considering.
\nIf using Velocity, try playing around with the `network-compression-threshold` and `compression-level` settings a bit. I had great results with `64` and `2` respectively.
\n– Packets are bundled per frame, so packets-per-second should not be a concern here.
\n– You can tweak most config settings during video playback with `\/mcc debug `. Depending on the video content, tweaking settings might have a big effect (e.g. anime style vs real life videos).<\/p>\n

## Showcase<\/p>\n

**Very large screen (17×7 blocks, 2176×896 CS) playing at 24FPS**
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