playing looping movie

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jhocking(Posted 2003) [#1]
Is there a way to make movie playback loop? Just using OpenMovie seems to play through once and then freeze on the last frame. I need my movie playback to loop. An obvious approach would be to simply call OpenMovie again whenever the movie has stopped playing but that is wasteful of CPU resources; is there some flag or something for looping a movie?


Ross C(Posted 2003) [#2]
A work around could be to stored an animated gif and use that as a movie. You have control over the playback to. But drawback being poorer quality. There are tools to convert movies into gifs.


jhocking(Posted 2003) [#3]
So there's no good way? The animated gif workaround has a lot of drawbacks, including that there is no soundtrack.

Which by the way brings up another question: how do you adjust the volume of a movie playing in Blitz?


Ross C(Posted 2003) [#4]
i don't think you can :(. quite poor movie support.


Rob(Posted 2003) [#5]
movie support is currently poor in this regard. You can check if it's playing and open it again.