Playing video?

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Yoda(Posted 2016) [#1]
Is there some way to play a video (and draw on top of it) in monkey?

Mainly needed for HTML5 and GLFW target.


SLotman(Posted 2016) [#2]
Maybe in HTML5 you could use javascript to hide the canvas and show a <VIDEO> tag with the same dimensions as the canvas.

I have no clue how to do it on GLFW. Playing videos on Windows + OpenGL was always a big messy thing :P


Soap(Posted 2016) [#3]
It is 100% for sure possible on both but both would require some native extern code to make happen. I would use webm for both.

What kind of video are you wanting to play? If it's some kind of animation you might be better off using spine/dragonbones to animate the scene and then play that in game with the monkey runtime for it.


Yoda(Posted 2017) [#4]
I want to show a normal video, no animation.
I also don't know what webm is, nor spine/dragonbones.
Just need a simple solution for playing videos in monkey, same way as I can play music or audio files.
There must be something ...