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Video Playback in Game

by Dion Beetson · in Torque Game Engine · 03/17/2008 (5:51 am) · 3 replies

Hi everyone,

I'm pretty new to the Torque scene and hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I've been searching around the a day or so trying to find an answer, with not much luck.

I'm trying to find out if it possible to playback a video file (I don't mind which format) in the game engine (eg, inside a building, like a virtual movie theater).

If this is possible, could you also stream from a web url?

If this isn't possible yet, does anyone have any ideas on any technologies I could use to develop such a feature.

Thanks heaps

Dion

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#1
03/17/2008 (6:06 am)
Out of the box, you can use Theora

TDN Entry on Theora

There are also some community resources that extend it

Theora Seek, Loop, and Callback
#2
03/17/2008 (5:09 pm)
Thanks for the post Michael,

I had looked into Theora, just obviously not well enough!!

Regards

Dion
#3
03/29/2008 (10:06 pm)
If anyone finds their way to this post and needs to get Video Playback within the Torque engine, here is the perfect example:

http://garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=9100

I had TGE 1.5 and just followed Steps 2 and 3 (ignored step 1).

Hope this helps someone.