movie won't play

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movie won't play

#1 Post by wyverngem »

I'm having trouble with a animated I made into a small movie. Whenever I run the game it doesn't actually play the movie. There's no error log, but I don't know what's going on.

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define e = Character("Eileen")
image eileen movie = Movie(channel="eileen", play="flames.mp4", image="city-alt.png")
label start:
    show eileen movie
    e "You've created a new Ren'Py game."
    e "Once you add a story, pictures, and music, you can release it to the world!"
    return
I created the animation using PNG to keep the transparency. Then I moved it into Photoshop where I rendered a video from many layers (no, not the Photoshop version that has sound). So I imported the video into MovieMaker and added a sound clip that was empty. It should have an audio channel now. I'm not sure what's going on with it. I still have the video that I rendered outside of MovieMaker could it be that it's not supported?

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#2 Post by xela »

Try using WEBM format.
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#3 Post by wyverngem »

I looked into WEBM and found VLC has a way to convert them into OGG< MP$, and WEMB. However, the only one that worked for me was the OGG. The WEBM would crash renpy and the MP4 wouldn't show up. Weird right?

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#4 Post by Imperf3kt »

Webm is a container, what you actually want is vp8 or vp9

Try xmedia-recode to handle the conversion.
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