Groxkiller585 wrote:EDIT: also how specific is the video code? Do you mean if it was not saved EXACTLY in one way it could not run, or could a standard AVI file work?
Image viewing should not be very hard, in fact in some of the vids I saw you put it on a surface. So maybe you could find a way to program it to make it behave like the movie as an animated texture...?
I mean only a specific encoding of AVI file would play. I played around with this tutorial: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/AVI_Materials
But the C++ library used for accessing videos that comes with Windows apparently is not the best. I could use a better external library if I could find a good free one, like the DevIL library I use for loading and displaying images. I just did not have the time to do this and still come close to hitting my release date for beta 1. The ability to play videos on the screens is something that will definitely be in future versions, and hopefully even playing them off the web like the GMod add-ons.
The code for the screens is built around playing videos on them, so when the time comes it should be fairly simple to implement a different library for accessing video data.
