Best video format for Renpy?

[Zherot]

What do you think would be the best format in terms of file size (short), in terms of quality and of course compatibility?

I tried to use MP4 but it didn't even appeared but for AVI it did worked.

[Imperf3kt]

After a lot of misunderstandings and trial and error, I found vp8 or vp9 in an mkv container best.

.mp4 is not supported.

[Zherot]

After a lot of misunderstandings and trial and error, I found vp8 or vp9 in an mkv container best.

.mp4 is not supported.

Ah, so that is why it didn't worked then, noted.

mkv its matroska?

[Imperf3kt]

Yes, mkv is matroska. It isn't a format though (and neither is mp4) but rather a container file. Think of it like a zip. You only see myfile.zip, but open it in the right program and now you see more files. In the case of mkv, that would be a video stream, audio and maybe subtitles, pictures and font files among other various attachments.

Make sure your video codec is supported. Vp9 should work on any platform and is royalty free. This is the codec found most commonly on the internet now as .webm videos.

For your audio (if any) I would suggest OGG Vorbis (.ogg) or Opus at a variable bitrate greater than 160kb/s
I'd personally go with Opus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)

[Zherot]

Yes, mkv is matroska. It isn't a format though (and neither is mp4) but rather a container file. Think of it like a zip. You only see myfile.zip, but open it in the right program and now you see more files. In the case of mkv, that would be a video stream, audio and maybe subtitles, pictures and font files among other various attachments.

Make sure your video codec is supported. Vp9 should work on any platform and is royalty free. This is the codec found most commonly on the internet now as .webm videos.

For your audio (if any) I would suggest OGG Vorbis (.ogg) or Opus at a variable bitrate greater than 160kb/s
I'd personally go with Opus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)

Do you know any good converters that can change for example from .avi or .mp4 to the formats that you mentioned?

[Imperf3kt]

I prefer to suggest xmedia-recode for these situations.

[Zherot]

I'll check it out.

[Taleweaver]

Ren'Py questions should be posted in the Ren'Py forum.

Moved.

[Zherot]

Ren'Py questions should be posted in the Ren'Py forum.

Moved.

Is this not the Renpy forum???

[Zherot]

Whe you compile and distribute a pryect what happens to the videos, images and other resources? are they ecnrypted or anyone can access them without even playing the game?

[Donmai]

Is this not the Renpy forum???

Lemma Soft Forums is a general story based games discussion site, not only a Ren'Py site. You have posted several Ren'Py questions in the general discussion thread, out of the Ren'Py section. That's why they had to be moved to the proper place.

Whe you compile and distribute a pryect what happens to the videos, images and other resources?

It's in the docs that you love: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/build.ht ... tributions
Your game assets will be locked inside a rpa file. Of course hackers will always find the key to unlock that file if they really want, but that's life.

[Zherot]

Is this not the Renpy forum???

Lemma Soft Forums is a general story based games discussion site, not only a Ren'Py site. You have posted several Ren'Py questions in the general discussion thread, out of the Ren'Py section. That's why they had to be moved to the proper place.

Whe you compile and distribute a pryect what happens to the videos, images and other resources?

It's in the docs that you love: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/build.ht ... tributions
Your game assets will be locked inside a rpa file. Of course hackers will always find the key to unlock that file if they really want, but that's life.

Ah, I'm sorry i really thought this forum was all about Renpy.

Honestly yeah i hate em but i now understand them a bit more, so Renpy does this is automatically or it is something i will have to do? (the .rpa thingy)

Maybe when i have more experience I will make a guide for newbies for Renpy so they don't have to suffer the same fate.

[Donmai]

Your threads, with all the answers you got so far, are already becoming a treasure guide for any Ren'Py beginner .
When you build a game distribution, Ren'Py automatically gets the game assets and put them into a monolithic archive.rpa file. It's possible to have several rpa files, one for each group of assets, as described here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/build.html#archives

[Zherot]

Your threads, with all the answers you got so far, are already becoming a treasure guide for any Ren'Py beginner .
When you build a game distribution, Ren'Py automatically gets the game assets and put them into a monolithic archive.rpa file. It's possible to have several rpa files, one for each group of assets, as described here: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/build.html#archives

Ah, now i get it, because i did read that and i didn't understood that part, i thought we had to do that manually that is why i asked but now i get it completely thanks.

About my threads, yeah they cover a lot of basic stuff but sometimes i think i am annoying people with my questions, i really don't like to bother people but i have no other option here, i really wish the documentation was more begginer friendly so didn't had to ask a lot of questions, i suppose it is also natural.