Full motion Video in darkplaces

[toneddu2000]

Is it possible to visualize full motion video during a game or (if it's too hard) just during change level? I read somewhere in the forum that Spike told to put playvideo instead of changelevel but where?!
According to formats:
DPV: no exaustive thread in the forum and very few documentation on dp svn. Can you believe it?
ROQ: I saw this for making roq video and it seems good but I don't know if DP supports it.
AVI: ? is it already possible or physically possible (creating an implementation)?
Any hint? I really don't know where to find informations (googling didn't give me anything useful)
Thanks in advance guys!

[Baker]

If you use ROQ tools you can play a video in FTEQW.

viewtopic.php?t=1920

Never tried DarkPlaces. Have never attempted to use an video format except ROQ with FTEQW. The information in the above thread I linked is the total extent of what I know of the subject.

[Spike]

if you want to play a video on a client, you can send them a stuffcmd(self, "playvideo somevideo.ext\n");
doing so should not interrupt the currently playing map.

DP only supports .dpv files. FTE supports .cin (q2), .roq (q3), .avi (windows builds only, compressed audio is not supported, but compressed video is fine so long as you have the relevent codec installed).
I don't know how you can generate a .dpv file, the only time I've actually seen one was in an old version of nexuiz where it was used as only a splashscreen, if I remember correctly.

[toneddu2000]

Ok thanks guys!
Do you know if DPV supports audio? Or just video?
Spike, do you think that could it be difficult to "steal" the code you written for FTE and put it in DP?
Is it difficult to write that part? I really need it
thanks again

[Seven]

Hello toneddu2000,

Spike is right. DarkPlaces can only handle .dpv video format.
But do not worry. LordHavoc gave us a tool to convert / decode / encode .dpv video files.
Find it on his Download page.
So there should be a solution for your problem...

I never played around with it yet, but others reported their experience with it.
And they said, that the quality would even be better than .roq format.
Please read some words about it here:


Best wishes,
Seven

[toneddu2000]

[Seven]

[toneddu2000]

Thanks a lot Seven. I took a look at the source but I didn't see that commented line. I'll ask LH directly. In these days I've bothered him a lot! Thanks again!