Playing an opening video

[bernardofd]

Hello!

I need to play an opening video in my CS/CEL app. I've quickly searched the manual, APIs, community site, this forum and etcs but I didn't find anything usefull.

In fact, I have a little MPEG movie file which I want to load and play as soon as my application loads everything (I think before the call of the function Run( ) in App::Application( ) method) but I don't have a clue in how to do it.

Help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[bernardofd]

Hey... Nevermind... I think I get it, just looking at the file $CRYSTAL\apps\video\video.cpp.

It still lacks a test, because my intro movie was in MPEG format. Does CS have any other video codecs than avi (DivX and others)?

Regards!

[bernardofd]

Argh! Codec's issue...

Well, I've researched a lot and I realized that the codecs for opening DivX, XviD, or OpenDivX are missing. I've downloaded and installed several and several of these (including a div4linux dated od april 2002!) bur the CS's configure script keep saying that the codec is not installed.

What I want to know is what package should I get and install for this video playback work...

Thanks in advance

[jorrit]

I'm afraid that video playback feature was not working properly. It has even been removed from CS in more recent versions.

Greetings,

[bernardofd]

Well, sad to hear that... But is there any way to play a video through CS? Or I would have to make a call to a player (example, call mplayer)?

In fact, in pseudo-stable september-3rd it still have the structures to video playing (iVideoStream, and etcs...)

Thanks and Regards

[jorrit]

Well, sad to hear that... But is there any way to play a video through CS? Or I would have to make a call to a player (example, call mplayer)?

In fact, in pseudo-stable september-3rd it still have the structures to video playing (iVideoStream, and etcs...)

Thanks and Regards

Using the iGraphics3D->SetRenderTarget() method one can render on any texture you want. Using that one can probably make code to read a video and then put that on the texture.

Greetings,

[allpowerful32]

How salvagable is the video streaming code from that old video plugin?  I have a similar goal, and I don't want to rewrite all of that.