Video Addon

no-reply@allegro.cc (Bingocat) — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:25:42 +0000

I'm trying to load and play a video using the video addon but am having problems. It seems that al_open_video is not opening the video for whatever reason. I've tried a few different file types, but none will work. Maybe I'm just missing something with the addon.

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  1al_init();
  2al_init_primitives_addon();
  3if (!al_init_video_addon()) {
  4  cout << "Could not initialize the video addon.\n" << endl;
  5}
  6al_init_font_addon();
  7al_init_ttf_addon();
  8al_init_acodec_addon();
  9al_install_mouse();
 10al_install_keyboard();
 11al_install_audio();
 12al_reserve_samples(1);
 13
 14ALLEGRO_DISPLAY *display = al_create_display(W_SCREEN, H_SCREEN);
 15ALLEGRO_EVENT_QUEUE *event_queue = al_create_event_queue();
 16ALLEGRO_TIMER *timer = al_create_timer(1.0 / 60.0);
 17ALLEGRO_VIDEO *video = al_open_video("C:/video.wmv");
 18ALLEGRO_FONT *font = al_load_font("arial.ttf", 18, NULL);
 19
 20if (!video)
 21  cout << "ERROR WITH VIDEO" << endl;

no-reply@allegro.cc (Edgar Reynaldo) — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:52:12 +0000

Only ogg theora is supported

no-reply@allegro.cc (Bingocat) — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 03:27:20 +0000

Oh that explains it. Thanks!

no-reply@allegro.cc (Edgar Reynaldo) — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:06:42 +0000

There was a ffmpeg backend too, but it was too messed up to keep in its current shape. It would sure be nice to support any format ffmpeg supports, but I just don't have time myself to make it happen.

Luckily though, you can still use ffmpeg to convert all your video files to .ogv, and still play them in allegro. Kind of cheating, but so what.

no-reply@allegro.cc (nshade) — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:46:21 +0000

That's what I did. I had a MIDI file that I wanted to put into my game. I just rendered it as a wav file and converted it to ogg. The player is none the wiser.