here is my script problem

[Steve]

image j picture = "Jeannie.jpg"
image tb picture = "trueblood.jpg"
image sc picture = "Shawn and Caleb.jpg"

label start:

scene j picture
with fade
"Jeannie, a portrait of my beautiful wife"

scene tb picture
with fade

"Bill Compton. vampire Bill"
$ renpy.movie_cutscene (' Flood.mpg' , 33.0)

scene sc picture
"Shawn and Caleb...done for a friend for birth of his son"

What is wrong that my video won't play...I have the video file in game directory..it is a mpeg 1 file. Please help...I know its got to be something simple. And it loads and plays pictures with no errors,,the video just does not play.

[Chansel]

Now I don't really know anything about playing movies, but I did notice you have a space between the first ' and Flood...
I had that once with an image and it didn't work because of that ^^" So maybe that's why it's not playing?

[Jake]

I did notice you have a space between the first ' and Flood...

This does look like a likely cause...

While on the subject, a couple of tips for asking for help:

- If you're copy/pasting sections of your script into your forum post, you should wrap it in 'code' tags (there's a button for this at the top of the editor box), because like that the forum will correctly lay out your script - since spacing and indentation is a possible source of errors in Ren'Py script and Python, it's useful to be able to see the way the code looks properly spaced.

- If you're asking a specific question, it's useful to have the question in the post title, rather than just a generic "here's my problem"; like that, people can see what your issue is and - more importantly - find your post again if they come across a solution to your problem later.

[Steve]

Thanks for trying to help but that was not it. I will keep searching for answer.

[PyTom]

Does the movie have an audio track? Movies need one, to allow time sync to work.

[Steve]

I thought it was the sound...but I added sound and still no video.

[Steve]

"image j picture = "Jeannie.jpg"
image tb picture = "trueblood.jpg"
image sc picture = "Shawn and Caleb.jpg"


label start:

scene j picture
with fade
"Jeannie, a portrait of my beautiful wife"

ok now I hear the sound and there is no picture...does anyone have any ideal what I am doing wrong..or what is missing?




#begin movie_cutscene
$ renpy.movie_cutscene("canyon.mpg")
#end movie_cutscene