Playing movie files?

lumbo7332 · Post by **lumbo7332** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:46 am

I know that the movie playing function was deprecated in a previous release, so I was wondering if their is a currently supported method of playing movie/video files. Thanks!

Apeirogon · Post by **Apeirogon** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:51 am

Only if you spit them in frames and show them in sequence on screen.

Post by **Rachael** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:16 am

There isn't, and likely will never be an official way for GZDoom to play movie files.

Post by **Enjay** » Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:19 am

Apeirogon wrote:Only if you spit them in frames and show them in sequence on screen.

There is a fork of GZDoom that was used for PSX and Doom64 TCs. It has a "pagedefs" file that can be used to script movies from images stored in the PK3. So it basically does what you suggest, but in a dedicated control lump kind of way.

I have no idea how "clean" it is code-wise (i.e. Graf et al may be able to come up with something better) but I have suggested that it might be considered for inclusion in GZDoom when the devs are less busy with their current, quite considerable, priorities.

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