Importing a Movie -- Please Help?

[kittilumpo]

I'm trying to put a movie into my game -- its supposed to be a "bonus" video for getting the good ending. Unfortunately the tutorial is less helpful than it is frustrating, since it makes the steps sound easy, but I just don't understand it and even opening the script file to see how the tutorial video is coded hasn't worked.

I've looked and looked and looked for a thread that could help me here, but I guess I haven't looked deep enough. All of the tutorials and threads I've found tell me how to put videos in the menu, but i don't need the video in the menu, so nothing works and I'm at my wit's end ;n;

If anyone can tell me how to put my video in please do -- at this point I'm done trying to figure out where I'm wrong and just want an example of how to do it right!

(btw the video i'm trying to import is a 24-second MP4. i can convert it to another file type if renpy doesn't support .mp4 but for now i know that isn't the main problem.)

[78909087]

Sorry if this is wrong, but in an attempt to help, I've just read the code.

At the beginning of the demo, it places this under the init:

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init:
    image movie = Movie()

Have you tried this?

Then, when reading further, inferring that the demo 'Eisenhow1952.mpg' is contained in the 'Game' folder, I believe you call it using.

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                $ renpy.movie_cutscene('Eisenhow1952.mpg', 63.0)

                show movie at Position(xpos=420, ypos=25, xanchor='left', yanchor='top')

                $ renpy.movie_start_displayable('Eisenhow1952.mpg', (352, 240))

And stop it with:

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                $ renpy.movie_stop()
                hide movie

I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but I've never used movies before :/

[PyTom]

Actually, it's simply:

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$ renpy.movie_cutscene("movie.webm")

That'll display movie.webm fully inside the window. I'd suggest using webm for the movie format, as it's most likely to work - webm constrains most of the movie's parameters, making it more likely to work.

[FrontierGai]

Actually, it's simply:

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$ renpy.movie_cutscene("movie.webm")

That'll display movie.webm fully inside the window. I'd suggest using webm for the movie format, as it's most likely to work - webm constrains most of the movie's parameters, making it more likely to work.

Huzzah, I was going to post about this, but glad I found it here first!

Thanks big T!