Playing movies in pipmak

[Eric Guichard]

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I'm in team who wants to develop a game using pipmak. We wonder if it 's possible to play movies like .mpg or .mov files in pipmak because we wil have to use such feature in our game.
If it's not, is this feature planned in a next release or is this a feature that will never be in the pipmak engine ?
I'm a Java programmer for business and I work also on another project based on python and pygame.
I don't learn programming in lua, but if I can help in the project, it will be certainly possible.
Thanks for your answer
Ulysse

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[Christian Walther]

Hello Ulysse

Welcome to the list, after your subscription odyssey! (Nomen est omen?)

> I'm in team who wants to develop a game using pipmak. We wonder if  
> it 's possible to play movies like .mpg or .mov files in pipmak  
> because we wil have to use such feature in our game.
> If it's not, is this feature planned in a next release or is this a  
> feature that will never be in the pipmak engine ?

Unfortunately this is not possible currently. For the moment you're  
stuck with storing every frame of an animation as a separate image  
file and flipping through them, as done for the rotating wheel in the  
demo project.

It is a planned feature (and probably the most often requested one),  
but no concrete work has been done towards it and I can't commit to  
any specific date of arrival (I know, I've been saying that for  
years... :) ). In particular, it has not been decided yet what video  
decoding library to use, so I can't say anything about what file  
formats will be supported. Most likely, the first implementation will  
support Ogg Theora exclusively (like with Vorbis for sound). I can say  
with certainty that I'm not going to use QuickTime, because it only  
exists for Mac OS and Windows. It's possible that at some point we  
will use a library that can read some QuickTime files, but I wouldn't  
hold my breath for it.

(This is getting kind of a FAQ, I guess I should put it on the wiki  
some time.)

   -Christian

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[NigeC]

other engines i can think of use ogg to good effect, quality is usually ok, it'll be nice to see it sometime :)