"main_menu.png" -> "main_menu.mp4"

[Njiorm]

Hello, everyone.
I have registered here, because I haven't found my question here yet. If it is already answered, I apologize for the double post.

Question:
Is it possible to play a video (mp4) in the main menu (and another one for game_menu)? I would like to run the mp4-file as loop in the background and replace the normal "main_menu.png".
I have already tried to replace main_menu.png with main_menu.mp4. Even a defined image doesn't seem to work.
Do any of you have a solution for this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Imperf3kt]

mp4 is not supported. (because its a licensed format that costs potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars to license)
You'll need to use a supported video format.

See here for details:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html

[Njiorm]

Thank you, but i also use mp4 in the splashscreen. It works fine.

I am trying to do the same with the video as *.ogv but it does not work. I don't know how to set the video in main_menu.

[IrinaLazareva]

There are many options for implementing the problem (beautiful and not so much; productive and not so much; simple and not so much....). However, easy way is:

To replace main_menu image with a "main_menu video", you need to find a line (gui.rpy file)

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define gui.main_menu_background = "gui/main_menu.png"

and replace to

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define gui.main_menu_background = Movie(play='video_file.mpg', channel='movie')

For game menu, similarly:

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define gui.game_menu_background = ....

[Njiorm]

It works Thank you!!!