Can't get my fullscreen movie to work

[Phoenyx75]

I'm trying to add an mp4 movie to my renpy game, but it's not working- it basically acts like I didn't call it to play my movie. I found this renpy tutorial on adding movies: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html But it didn't work. I'm wondering if perhaps the mp4 format I'm using isn't right? This is the line I added to my script: $ renpy.movie_cutscene("Coatepec_Van.mp4") , with Caotepec_Van.mp4 being the name of my movie. My movie file is in the game folder of the game I'm working on. Any suggestions welcome.

[Ocelot]

Which video and audio codecs does your movie use?

[Imperf3kt]

I'm trying to add an mp4 movie to my renpy game, but it's not working- it basically acts like I didn't call it to play my movie. I found this renpy tutorial on adding movies: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html But it didn't work. I'm wondering if perhaps the mp4 format I'm using isn't right? This is the line I added to my script: $ renpy.movie_cutscene("Coatepec_Van.mp4") , with Caotepec_Van.mp4 being the name of my movie. My movie file is in the game folder of the game I'm working on. Any suggestions welcome.

mp4 is not part of the MPEG-4 part 2 codec - the same format used for DVD movies. You are probably confusing it with h.264, which is commonly used in an mp4 format, and is MPEG-4 part 10

You need to use one of the following
VP9
VP8
Theora
MPEG-4 part 2 (including Xvid and DivX)
MPEG-2
MPEG-1

in one of the container formats below
WebM
Matroska
Ogg
AVI
Various kinds of MPEG stream.


I would suggest vp9 in an mkv format. Set your video output encoder / recording software to this format and extension.

[Phoenyx75]

I'm trying to add an mp4 movie to my renpy game, but it's not working- it basically acts like I didn't call it to play my movie. I found this renpy tutorial on adding movies: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html But it didn't work. I'm wondering if perhaps the mp4 format I'm using isn't right? This is the line I added to my script: $ renpy.movie_cutscene("Coatepec_Van.mp4") , with Caotepec_Van.mp4 being the name of my movie. My movie file is in the game folder of the game I'm working on. Any suggestions welcome.

mp4 is not part of the MPEG-4 part 2 codec - the same format used for DVD movies. You are probably confusing it with h.264, which is commonly used in an mp4 format, and is MPEG-4 part 10

You need to use one of the following
VP9
VP8
Theora
MPEG-4 part 2 (including Xvid and DivX)
MPEG-2
MPEG-1

in one of the container formats below
WebM
Matroska
Ogg
AVI
Various kinds of MPEG stream.


I would suggest vp9 in an mkv format. Set your video output encoder / recording software to this format and extension.

Thanks . I had thought that perhaps mp4 might not be MPEG-4 Part 2, but since it said nothing about the format being wrong, I thought that probably wasn't it :-p.

[Phoenyx75]

Which video and audio codecs does your movie use?

All I know is that my movie's extension is mp4. I now see that this is apparently not a format that renpy works with. Thanks for the question

[Phoenyx75]

Alright, so I used handbrake to convert my mp4 movie into a webm movie, using the VP9 MKV 1080p30 (Modified) format. I got the same problem- basically, it ran through the rest of the code and then it just ignored my line of code to show the movie. Here's my precise code, skipping the initial define statement and removing some # stuff:

**
label start:


scene bg room

show eileen happy


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!"

$ renpy.movie_cutscene("Coatepec_Van.webm")


return
**

[jeffster]

Well the code itself is correct. My clips (VP8 / webm) play no problem.

[Phoenyx75]

Well the code itself is correct. My clips (VP8 / webm) play no problem.

Thanks for your response . I figured out the problem. Or at least got it to work. I guessed that perhaps I got the encoding wrong again somehow, so I re encoded it. This time it worked .