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[Ravotus]

Here's my newest DLL: the GMMovie DLL. This DLL allows extended possiblities of playing audio and video files in your games (although i don't really reccommend it for audio files, there's better DLL's for that.) It includes functions to show them (audio files are blank) either in your game or in an external popup window. This DLL won't pause your game while its playing, great for trailers, etc that may do other things while playing a cutscene. It's a little hard to explain, just download it and try it out! Its only 21kb. Download here: http://ravotus.nfshost.com/GMMovie.zip It's just in its beta stage right now so it may have bugs. Also I kinda hurried through the help file so if you find any errors please report them also. Ok well enjoy! One thing: This uses MCI so you could do it directly from Game Maker. However, I am not sure about speed imporvment but this is also easier and is well documented. Generally things with DLL's are faster so I think this could be faster but I'm not sure. Just please don't go around saying you could do most of it with MCI. If you know you can, then go make your own scripts, etc.

Edited by Ravotus, 21 February 2012 - 02:56 AM.

[ih8censorship]

you know whats funny? for a long time people complained about the crappyness of gamemakers movie player, and now they got a dll that fixes the minor problems (i know from what i told Nintendofreak88 that there are also things you cant do from the mci commands in gml) and from what ive seen its a ton easyer to use than mci commands. just thought id say that.

[Shaltif]

Glad to see this finally come available, I really need something like this for my next media player (SXMS Player 3.0). Hopefully, I can get video support to be just as good as my audio support.

Keep up the good work, and keep me informed on any changes / progress (as you said, it's kinda in a beta stage). I'll let you know if I find any issues when I start using it in my player.

the only thing I need to figure out now, is to get DVD player (without using Xception's DVD dll, so please don't post about recommending that one)

If you can figure that out nintendofreak88 (I've tried for quite some time, but you seem to know a bit more than me in C++ when it comes to video), that would be a great.

~Brandon

Edited by Shaltif, 30 August 2004 - 03:33 AM.

[Ravotus]

Thanks for the great comments guys! As far as the dvd thing goes, Shaltif, I think that would be fairly hard. I think you could access the data on a dvd like any other drive in C++ or Assembly, but I'm not sure. I can check on that a bit more.

[ih8censorship]

for the dvd thing you could probly find something on sourceforge and wrap it for gm.

[Ravotus]

Well I have one question. Do you mean DVD player like executing files on a DVD or is there a special format for DVD's? (Like .cda for cd's)

[Nipa]

Yes,

I don't remember it but look for it....

Nipa

[MaJoRa]

The format is .vob

[Ravotus]

Alright thank you I'll look into how to do this? BTW is there anything that needs to be improved on this DLL it doesn't seem to be very popular at all and I'm wondering what i'm doing wrong...

[zzzchristian]

i see a media player coming

[MaJoRa]

You are doing nothing wrong, i used it for a hile, the problem is i know how to do all of these with MCI_command, so i gave up, maybe thats why a few people arnt using it, maybe if you added something extra to it that MCI_command() cant do more people might download it.....

[Ravotus]

i see a media player coming

Nah, I use SXMS.

if you added something extra to it that MCI_command() cant do more people might download it.....

Hmm well I don't know what else to add... I do know a fair amount of api and c++ in general so if you know of something in perticular just ask.

[fallen^angel]

I just downloaded the dll..i'll edit in a few hours because i can't check it right now.....

However since u guys seem to know about MCI could someone help me ?If yes plz pm me
I dont want something simple like MCI_command('pause all') but something really complex...

ok i checked it

It sucks no j/k

It is really good and it has a lot of options that are not available in gm ...

I really liked it.Keep up the good work and don't give up this project

[zmaj]

zmmaj@ptt.yu

REPORT FROM SERBIA ABOUT GMMovie Dll...
Hi...I try this thing...Work wery good,but???
Now look this:
*.vob some *.avi-es playing well, mpeg2/3(DivX2 and DivX3) playing well...I took about video formats...
But any format with harder compresion,playing tooooo quick ,without sound...
I was trying everuthig,but I can't solved this problem.
I't is posiblle , to inplement subtitle in moovie, only if you play movie on GM window and put some place for subtitle down...
My question is...Why this playing so slow. I was try on Win98(AMD 500 Mhz-terrible ; AMD 2000+ playin very bad... with one bug...After couple minutes picture come smoutlles...And just look what procesor do...98 - 100% ocupate with this dll...)
Similar things was repeat on other OS (WIN 2000 ; WIN XP-Pro ; )...On every of these OS procesor work with maximum own resources...Why???, And How to limit this to 20 - 30%...
Thanks !!!

P.S. I have not my site but...If you interesed i can send to everyone my own ZMAJ Player who work only with this dll...With subtitles,of course...
Everuthing is on my language but I hope you will understand the code...
Of course any messages of player you can changing on script "srpske_poruke"if you translate these messages on your language...
All program with free code is about 1Mb on zip format...

Edited by zmaj, 28 September 2004 - 08:34 AM.

[Ravotus]

That's Windows' problem. This DLL just uses MCI, so everything is played through Windows. If it doesn't work, sorry, but I can't do anything about it.

[SSNautilus]

Very nice. I've tested it within a GM game, and it opens and autoplays nicely in any coordinates/size given. And the game continues playing as well. (I haven't checked it with views[] yet, but I think it should be able to handle that correctly.)

Two things I noted:
(1.) It does not auto 'close' when the video ends.
(2.) It does not 'follow' an object when given dynamic x,y coordinates. (eg. GMMovie_SetPosition(sampleMovie,mouse_x,mouse_y); )

It starts at the relative coordinates and stays there during the step event. This would be nice if it could be allowed - so we could have 'animated' videos come floating in. (eg. Powerpoint).

Question: Will it work with dynamic SetSize()? I haven't tried that either - so we can 'scale' the video as needed. Useful.

Glitch: When I skip the question "Do you want to open it in a new window?" And allow it to play directly if file exists, then the video opens (for 1 frame - or duration of LOADING of the movie file!!) at its original size, and THEN resizes and sits itself in the x,y coordinates I had defined ) and causes a glitchy jump. Not good if we are to play ingames movies. Cannot show something 'jumpy' onscreen whenever a video is to be played. (eg. Mech Commander 'comms' (mission transmissions) chatter in a specified view while game is being fought!)

Please set it to 'load' in background if possible.

Overall - fantastic. MUCH needed by the GM community. Thanks. And keep up the great work.

Edited by SSNautilus, 11 October 2004 - 02:57 AM.

[Shaltif]

SSNautilus, the first suggestion can be done easily already. Just check it's progress in a step or alarm, when it is complete (or 100% done) then you can use the close function.

The video your seeing is actually it's own window being cast over or embed into the GM window. If you ever noticed, if you right-click a video being played, you get the MCI default video options.

You probably could get away with making your own "dynamic" set position if you knew the window_handle of the video window. Then using some WinAPI manipulation, have the video move. I'm not sure tho if that would work when "inside" the GM window.

I never noticed the glitch you spoke of. Try setting it's position, size, etc before playing the file. This should fix that "glitch".

As for loading in the "background", I don't see that being possible...

~Brandon

[Blijbol]

Great job! Be proud of your DLL! This is exactly what I needed to finish my media player. I had seen many audio dll's, but no video ones before.

[SSNautilus]

In the code of the STEP event, change the first case/switch segment to:

switch(choice){
  case 0:
   file = get_open_filename("All Files (*.*)|*.*","");
   if(file_exists(file)){
     sampleMovie = GMMovie_Load(window_handle(),file,"");
     GMMovie_SetSize(sampleMovie,50,50);
     GMMovie_SetPosition(sampleMovie,0,0);
     GMMovie_Play(sampleMovie);
    }
   }
  break;

Specify a video file (much) LARGER than 50x50. You'll see that a window first appears which is BLANK and is much larger, and then it switches to the 50x50 size. Basically, it stays blank till the file is completely loaded. This should be done in the BG - preferably without causing any 'hiccups' in GM.

Thanks.

[Rune Hunter]

Good job Nintendofreak88! Keep up the good work!