Half a second of a checkerboard screen before the video starts...

[withtheknife]

I want to use a video as a background, but it doesn't seem to be working!

What the code looks like:

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image movie = Movie(channel="bg-placeholder4", play="images/bg-placeholder4.ogv", size=(1920, 1080), loop=True)
[irrelavant code]

scene movie

play music "audio/user melancholy - somber.mp3" fadein 1.0 volume 1

h "uuh. the uuh"


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Instead of playing the video "bg-placeholder4.ogv", instantly, a gray checkerboard appears for a split second.



What am I doing wrong?

Thanks :^)

EDIT: I copied the code from this solution: (https://www.reddit.com/r/RenPy/comments ... ansparent/), but there is still half a second of a checkerboard screen before it displays the video.

[Ocelot]

What you wrote is equivalent to:

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# scene something is just a shortcut for writing both scene and show statement.
scene # clears screen
show movie # shows movie WHEN IT LOADS AND DECODES THE FIRST FRAME. Which might take time.

You can use scene black fowwlowed by show movie to show black screen before movie loads. Which technically isn't nessesary, because screen would be black after building the game for release anyway.

[withtheknife]

What you wrote is equivalent to:

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# scene something is just a shortcut for writing both scene and show statement.
scene # clears screen
show movie # shows movie WHEN IT LOADS AND DECODES THE FIRST FRAME. Which might take time.

You can use scene black fowwlowed by show movie to show black screen before movie loads. Which technically isn't nessesary, because screen would be black after building the game for release anyway.

scene black makes it look less jarring, but I'd like the video to start as soon as the player advances. I don't want a black screen flash before every video. Is that possible? Thanks for the reply :^D

[Ocelot]

You can use a start_image parameter to provide an image which is shown after scene statement executesm but before video starts playing. If you use first frame of your video as that image, it might look better. Another way is only remove old images after movie starts playing.

[withtheknife]

You can use a start_image parameter to provide an image which is shown after scene statement executesm but before video starts playing. If you use first frame of your video as that image, it might look better. Another way is only remove old images after movie starts playing.

Thanks! How would these look as code?

This is what I tried. I noticed "spongeman" doesn't appear before the video, only a split second of black screen
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image movie = Movie(play="images/bg-placeholder4.ogv", image_start="spongeman")

[irrelevant code]

show movie

play music "audio/user melancholy - somber.mp3" fadein 1.0 volume 1

h "uuh. the uuh"
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[withtheknife]

You can use a start_image parameter to provide an image which is shown after scene statement executesm but before video starts playing. If you use first frame of your video as that image, it might look better. Another way is only remove old images after movie starts playing.

Thanks! How would these look as code?

This is what I tried. I noticed "spongeman" doesn't appear before the video, only a split second of black screen
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image movie = Movie(play="images/bg-placeholder4.ogv", image_start="spongeman")

[irrelevant code]

show movie

play music "audio/user melancholy - somber.mp3" fadein 1.0 volume 1

h "uuh. the uuh"
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I'm.... dumb....

I wrote image_start instead of start_image.

I think that's it. That solves everything. Every time I add a video, I'll have to define both the movie and the start_image first, correct? So, in the end, I'll have a bunch of:

image scene1 = Movie(play="images/scene1.ogv", image_start="imgscene1")
image scene2 = Movie(play="images/scene2.ogv", image_start="imgscene2")
image scene3 = Movie(play="images/scene3.ogv", image_start="imgscene3")