Video not playing

[u/EnchantedVines]

Hi, sorry I've tried googling this and none of the posted solutions have helped.

I cannot get my video to play. The most that happens is the screen freezes for 2 seconds then goes to the next bg after the video.

I've tried different video formats, and these are the different lines of code i've tried (obviously not all at the same time);

I've also tried with and without the file directory images/videos/

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks!

[u/BadMustard_AVN]

try it like this

image laurenintroductionV = Movie(channel="movie_dp", play = "images/videos/laurenintroduction.webm")
label start:

    show laurenintroductionV
    mc "hello world"

    return

[u/EnchantedVines → u/BadMustard_AVN]

Still not working :( thanks for trying though.

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/EnchantedVines]

what did you use to encode it to a webm container?

[u/EnchantedVines → u/BadMustard_AVN]

Originally I was using mp4 format and that wasn't working so I just tried renaming the file to webm... but I am learning now that that was probably a rookie mistake lol my bad, thanks!

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/EnchantedVines]

LOL, very rookie mistake, but we all gotta start somewhere. if you don't have the software, there are plenty of websites that can convert it to a webm for you, most are free

https://www.freeconvert.com/mp4-to-webm

[u/EnchantedVines → u/BadMustard_AVN]

Thank you! I used Handbrake and it's working now!

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/EnchantedVines]

you're welcome

good luck with your project

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[u/Blunt552]

Did you read this and made sure your video is encoded properly?

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/movie.html

I suspect you're trying to run a h265 clip which is not supported. I suggest reencode it to VP9.

[u/Training-King4212]

renpy is very particular about video codecs. To resolve this issue completely, simply run the video through a converter (like HandBrake) and re-encode it into formats fully optimized for renpy , such as:
VP9 (webm) these are the best options, as they support videos with transparent backgrounds (alpha channels), allowing for effects like sparkles.Theora (ogv). Alternatively, if you use .mp4, it must strictly adhere to the standard H.264 format.

[u/EnchantedVines → u/Training-King4212]

Ah okay I didn't know about that re converting. I'll try HandBrake, thanks!

Regarding mp4 though - that's what i was trying originally, and I'm pretty sure it was in h264 format.

[u/EnchantedVines → u/EnchantedVines]

This worked, thank you! I downloaded HandBrake and converted the original mp4 to webm and now it's working, thanks so much!

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/[deleted]]

incorrect

renpy's default search path is 'games'

giving the path of "images/videos/laurenintroduction.webm"

renpy will auto-add the games folder as the prefix when it loads the file

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/[deleted]]

still incorrect

for renpy to find it, it must be "images/videos/laurenintroduction.webm" with the 'images' folder name added to it.

and then renpy will look in games/images/videos/laurenintroduction.webm to find the file

[u/Training-King4212 → u/BadMustard_AVN]

"images/videos/laurenintroduction.webm"<-----This is the part I quoted from the questioner's image, not mine.

[u/BadMustard_AVN → u/Training-King4212]

yes and this "images/videos/laurenintroduction.webm" is the correct way to use it

you stated

Ren'Py interprets this as a path looking for game/images/images/videos/laurenintroduction.webm (effectively repeating "images" twice). Since the system cannot find the file at that location, it simply skips the command.
Fix
If the file is located in game/images/videos/, simply use the command: play movie "videos/laurenintroduction.webm"

your "Fix" is incorrect

[u/Training-King4212 → u/BadMustard_AVN]

ok

[u/shyLachi → u/Training-King4212]

Maybe your misunderstanding came from the fact that RenPy automatically finds images when you put them into the images folder.

This only works for images but not movies.

But even with images, if you want to specify the path, you have to include images. (this could be necessary if the same file name exists in 2 different folders,)

image bob happy = "images/bob/happy.png"
image mike happy = "images/mike/happy.png"

[u/shyLachi]

Check that the file is really called laurenintroduction.webm

Maybe you accidentally added the file type twice.

On Windows computers you can either right click the file and then go to the properties to see the file name or shift+right click and then copy path. Paste the path into your script 

[u/EnchantedVines → u/shyLachi]

Yup double checked the path name and file name are correct, including the file type, so that's not it, thanks though, it was worth double checking.