TGEA & Theora

#1 I have a problem with Theora too !!!

When play the video the video start but I don't see it !!!

Why ???

#2 @Adam -- I can't think of any one specific thing that would make it look like that. My suggestion would be to go back through the resource carefully and make sure all of the changes were made properly.

@Andrea -- Did you use Canvas.setContent() or Canvas.pushDialog() to make the TheoraGui control visible? If that isn't the problem then give more specific information about how you are playing the video and someone might be able to help you out.

#3 Adam does the playback work in fullscreen mode? Any hints from the console output?

#4 It works in fullscreen and there is nothing happening in the console.

#5 Wich tgea version are you using atm? Had some problems with resizing our placeholder in the migration attempt from 1.01 to 1.02... (regretably droped for lack of time) would get stuck re-initialising in the uperleft corner... *might* be related.

#6 @ Jon Wilsdon

I use in mainmenu :

.............

Command = "Canvas.pushDialog(TestVideoGui);";

.............

and in "TestVideoGui" :

//--- OBJECT WRITE BEGIN ---
new GuiChunkedBitmapCtrl(TestVideoGui) {
   Profile = "GuiContentProfile";
   HorizSizing = "width";
   VertSizing = "height";
   Position = "0 0";
   Extent = "800 600";
   MinExtent = "8 8";
   Visible = "1";
   bitmap = "./background";
   useVariable = "0";
   tile = "0";
      helpTag = "0";

   new GuiTheoraCtrl(Filmato) {
      Profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
      HorizSizing = "relative";
      VertSizing = "relative";
      Position = "0 0";
      Extent = "800 640";
      MinExtent = "8 2";
      Visible = "1";
      done = "1";
      stopOnSleep = "1";
      backgroundColor = "0 0 0 255";
   };
};
//--- OBJECT WRITE END ---

function checkVideoDone()
{

 if (Filmato.done)
 {
  Canvas.popDialog(TestVideoGui);
  CursorOn();
 }
 else
   schedule(100, 0, checkVideoDone );

}

function TestVideoGui::onWake(%this)
{

 CursorOff();

 video.done = false;
 Filmato.setFile("test/data/video/video.ogg");
 schedule(500, 0, checkVideoDone );
}

function TestVideoGui::onSleep(%this)
{


}

I'm using TGEA 1.0.1

#7 Andrea, this is what I used for testing:

//--- OBJECT WRITE BEGIN ---
new GuiControl(VideoTest) {
   canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
   Profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
   HorizSizing = "right";
   VertSizing = "bottom";
   Position = "0 0";
   Extent = "800 600";
   MinExtent = "8 2";
   canSave = "1";
   Visible = "1";
   hovertime = "1000";
   //CloseCommand = "stopIntroVideo();";

   new GuiTheoraCtrl(theo) {
      canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
      Profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
      HorizSizing = "right";
      VertSizing = "bottom";
      Position = "169 81";
      Extent = "600 450";
      MinExtent = "8 2";
      canSave = "1";
      Visible = "1";
      hovertime = "1000";
      done = "0";
      stopOnSleep = "0";
      backgroundColor = "0 0 0 255";
   };
};
//--- OBJECT WRITE END ---

Try using GuiControl instead of GuiChunkedBitmapCtrl like I did.

#8 @[Stefan]

Then I use :

Command = "Canvas.setContent(VideoTest);";

And
What do you suggest to load the video ogg ???

in this mode ?

function VideoTest:onWake(%this)
{
 CursorOff();
 theo.setFile("test/data/video/video.ogg");
}

#9 Sorry Andrea I'm currently on holidays and can't help you from here. I'll be back in a few days though...

#10 Ooo is that a Russian front game with a PPSh41?

#11 Its a WW2 game in general. It has the Russian front, the Western Europe front, the Finnish Winter War and the Pacific front. We have right now, Americans, Canadians, Brits, Finnish, Russians, Germans and Japs.

#12 Ok Stefan I wait you ... but using this code I see pink video ... I listen sound of video but I don't see the video :-S

#13 Andrea, maybe there's something wrong with the file(s) you're using (wrong aspect ratio or something). I used this small video for testing and here are some more :) Hope it helps.

P.S. I'm still on holidays enjoying the sun ;)

#14 Thanks for All Stefan !!!

Now I have resolved the problems by a deep control between my codes and the resource :

www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=9958

the problems were in GFX and D3D codes !!!

Thanks for your patience

Bye
;-)

#15 I am having a slightly more fundamental problem with Theora support.

I have been working with the TGEA 1.0.3 SDK for some time now and it seems to be missing the files that provide the TheoraSupport. No mention of GuiTheoraCtrl.cpp or TheoraTexture anywhere in my codebase.
There is a passing mention of it some comments in oggMixedStreamSource.cpp.

Do I need to be getting the latest code from CVS in order to get these files?

Thanks very much

David Llewellyn

#16 There is no CVS you could access

#17 David, i cound be wrong, but i think the theora files are in the tge codebase not tgea, so you would have to get them from there if you have a sdk. i havent gotten around to add this yet i so i cant really help beyond this.

Neil

#18 Not sure why they haven't implemented Theora in TGEA in 1.0... or even beyond. Thought it was made possible a while back with no issues... somewhere.

#19 Thanks for your responses everyone. I guess I will try and get it from the TGE codebase and integrate as suggested in some of the other articles.

I am very surprised that it's not already there are they quite clearly claim that it is available on this page

http://www.garagegames.com/products/torque/tgea/featurecomp/

I hope I can get access to the TGE CVS with my existing login, if we find that we are expected to buy a TGE licence too, my employers are unlikely to be happy.

Thanks again

David Llewellyn

#20 David, as mentioned above, CVS is gone now, you should email GG about this and complain as it should be in there (going by the comp page) . if you get any joy, please let us know what they say.