Video (file) behind main menu

[cementoliquido]

Hello everyone ! I'm here again because I would like to ask a question.

I need to display a video (like an .avi file) behind the main menu screen. I mean, the video should play and repeat, while the buttons (such as new game and options) should remain clickable as usual, but I have no idea what to do. I already tried changing the background and putting an ATL animations, but it's not what me and my friend are looking for.
I hope you guys can help, thanks in advance !

[PyTom]

It's doable.

You have to add to the start of the main menu screen the lines

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screen main_menu:
    add Movie(size=(800, 600))
    on "show" action Play("movie", "foo.ogv")
    on "hide" action Stop("movie")
    on "replaced" action Stop("movie")

    ...

[Elmiwisa]

It's doable.

You have to add to the start of the main menu screen the lines

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screen main_menu:
    add Movie(size=(800, 600))
    on "show" action Play("movie", "foo.ogv")
    on "hide" action Stop("movie")
    on "replaced" action Stop("movie")

    ...

A few details I would like to point out.
1. add lines need to be sandwiched between the background window and the button box, otherwise either the movie get obscured or the button are obscured.
2. on "replace" is needed too otherwise getting into a submenu and return will make the movie disappear.
3. This have problem with the close window button for some reason. Specifically, if your menu is like this, weird thing happen when you try to close window using the X.

[cementoliquido]

Thank you very much, these lines work perfectly
another question: To have the video loop continuosly, what should I have to do ?

[PyTom]

I think it's:

Play("movie", "foo.ogv", loop=True)

[cementoliquido]

I realized it just after I posted, and it worked by writing "loop=1" but I guess it's the same thing... Thank you very much !

[Elmiwisa]

Thank you very much, these lines work perfectly
another question: To have the video loop continuosly, what should I have to do ?

Wait, are you saying that you managed to fix the close window problem? How did you do it?

[cementoliquido]

Sorry, I didn't answer before because of a connection problem

Anyway, I didn't actually solve this "close window" problem, in fact, when I want to close the window, only the menu disappears while the video keeps playing... I tried something but I didn't get anywhere

I don't know if this can be done properly.. Do you have any ideas ?
Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it

[Zelika]

I'm a newbie at Ren'Py coding and I was wondering that

I followed the instructions in this topic, (even changed the foo.ogv) but when I tested it out, my main menu is still the same before (▰˘︹˘▰)

can anyone help please?

[xavimat]

@Zelika: Can you show your code of the screen main_menu?

[Zelika]

@Zelika: Can you show your code of the screen main_menu?

Sure.

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screen main_menu:
    add Movie(size=(2184, 1900))
    on "show" action Play("movie", "Opening/Hello Laughter.mp4")
    on "hide" action Stop("movie")
    on "replaced" action Stop("movie")

    # This ensures that any other menu screen is replaced.
    tag menu

    # The background of the main menu.
    window:
        style "mm_root"

    # The main menu buttons.
    frame:
        style_group "mm"
        xalign .5
        yalign .5

        has vbox

        textbutton _("Start Game") action Start()
        textbutton _("Load Game") action ShowMenu("load")
        textbutton _("Options") action ShowMenu("preferences")
        textbutton _("Quit") action Quit(confirm=False)

init -2 python:

    # Make all the main menu buttons be the same size.
    style.mm_button.size_group = "mm"

[xavimat]

Elmiwisa has pointed out that:

1. add lines need to be sandwiched between the background window and the button box, otherwise either the movie get obscured or the button are obscured.

I have'nt checked but, maybe you can put your movie after the "window":

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screen main_menu:
    on "show" action Play("movie", "Opening/Hello Laughter.mp4")
    on "hide" action Stop("movie")
    on "replaced" action Stop("movie")

    # This ensures that any other menu screen is replaced.
    tag menu

    # The background of the main menu.
    window:
        style "mm_root"

    add Movie(size=(2184, 1900))

    # The main menu buttons.
    frame:
        style_group "mm"
        xalign .5
        yalign .5

        has vbox

        textbutton _("Start Game") action Start()
        textbutton _("Load Game") action ShowMenu("load")
        textbutton _("Options") action ShowMenu("preferences")
        textbutton _("Quit") action Quit(confirm=False)

[Zelika]

Elmiwisa has pointed out that:

1. add lines need to be sandwiched between the background window and the button box, otherwise either the movie get obscured or the button are obscured.

I have'nt checked but, maybe you can put your movie after the "window":

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screen main_menu:
    on "show" action Play("movie", "Opening/Hello Laughter.mp4")
    on "hide" action Stop("movie")
    on "replaced" action Stop("movie")

    # This ensures that any other menu screen is replaced.
    tag menu

    # The background of the main menu.
    window:
        style "mm_root"

    add Movie(size=(2184, 1900))

    # The main menu buttons.
    frame:
        style_group "mm"
        xalign .5
        yalign .5

        has vbox

        textbutton _("Start Game") action Start()
        textbutton _("Load Game") action ShowMenu("load")
        textbutton _("Options") action ShowMenu("preferences")
        textbutton _("Quit") action Quit(confirm=False)

I tried that, but my menu still hasn't changed.... (sorry for the late reply)

[Aurelius]

Thank you cementoliquido for asking that question and thank you PyTom for answering now I have fully functionable animated backgrounds for my main menu

[bargencat]

I have a movie background that is made to be in sync with an audio. If I use the code Pytom suggested then I get the synced audio-video just once. Clicking a menu button and then returning to menu breaks the sync. The audio doesn't break it's loop but the video does.

How do I make it so that the video doesn't break it's loop regardless of me clicking other menu buttons and then going back to main menu again?

This is the code I'm using

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screen main_menu():

    # This ensures that any other menu screen is replaced.
    tag menu
    
    add Movie(size=(1920, 1080))
    on "show" action Play("movie", "gui/main_menu.ogv", loop=True)
    on "hide" action Stop("movie")
    on "replace" action Play("movie", "gui/main_menu.ogv", loop=True)
    on "replaced" action Stop("movie")