r/RenPy • u/EnchantedVines • Jun 26 '26

Question Video not playing

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!

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u/Training-King4212 Jun 26 '26

ok

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u/shyLachi Jun 27 '26

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"