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Some people that played Re:Set said that the Opening Video format (mpeg-2) doesn't play in their computers. So I was going to change it to a format that plays well in most computers. What is the best video format that I should use?

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I might not write on your thread, but I am lurking and watching. Intently.

MPEG-2 is a very common format, so I think you did what you could. You could include a troubleshooting section in your documentation with links to download codecs.

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Keep your script in your Dropbox folder.
It allows you to share files with your team, keeps backups of previous versions, and is ridiculously easy to use.

You wanna be careful : if you put MPEG-2 videos in your software, you theorically have to pay up. (Here is relevant legal mumbo-jumbo). I would nonetheless agree with sciencewarrior that most users should be able to see it, as it is a commonplace codec (it's used in 'DVD-Video', the leader format for non-hd DVD).

Otherwise, you could go for free codecs instead (the Ogg-Theora-Vorbis combo is always a good one), and put them in the archive with your game. Or as a download in your web.


Preposting edit : After a rapid check, I've found that Renpy uses the ffmpeg library, and according to the linked pages it is directly included in the renpy package - so if one can read the video, everyone should. (I know that, alas, computing is rarely that simple. But still.)
I'll quote the page by saying

Ren'Py has switched from ffmpeg to libav, after the fork.

There is one potential issue I discovered in the way I compiled Ren'Py - potentially, it may not be detecting the host CPU properly, and using the wrong level of instructions. I think I know how to fix it, but since it requires a recompile of all of the dependencies - and a full test cycle, it will likely wait for the June release.

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

I am still using the 6.12 version, so is it safe for me to use mpeg format? How do I include codecs in my game so there's no trouble playing the video? And matroska doesn't work so well in my computer so I'm still in doubt...

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I might not write on your thread, but I am lurking and watching. Intently.

The codecs are included by default, so there are no codecs to include.

Properly-encoded mpeg should work everywhere, but there may be problems if you use B frames.

I'm not sure how serious the CPU problem is. We have had some people with weird video playback problems, so maybe this will fix them? If anyone has a reliable crash-on-video, please let me know and I'll send you some new files that might fix the problem.

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt