movie

[pangu]

i want to show a movie correctly in panda.
my movie is 720x576 / avi / ~1gb
-> problem: it’s juddering/wrong solution when i play it in panda

-> how can i integrate it properly/ or which format/codec du i need to convert it to? thx

[Canadian]

I don’t know how effective it is, but if you check the manual there’s a page on how to use an AVI file as a texture. So all you need to do is create a card and apply the video as a texture.

See the page here: panda3d.org/manual/index.php … _AVI_files

[pangu]

yes i already did this, but i think my movie is in the wrong format: it is rather to big (scale/solution?=i see only a small part of the movie, rest is cut away) or it is juddering…

[powerpup118]

You might look at the Movie Player example found with the 1.7 distribution, I think I remember it mentioning something about only displaying a certain amount of pixels in the bottom left or something.

It can probably help you out a bit.

[pangu]

the movie from the Movie Player example is working fine, but my video isn’t

-> i tried “hundreds” of different codex and ended with the “best” solution 900x480pixel+xvid mpeg4 or divx 6.8.3 codec, so now the video is shown in the “white area”, “black”-area is unused, don’t now why… <-see img / but it is definitely not perfect/sharp/proportional:

-> what do you mean by “only displaying a certain amount of pixels in the bottom left or something.” ??

[powerpup118]

Well I remember reading this before (I found it in the manual)

For powers-of-two limited graphics hardware

If your graphics hardware does not support non power-of-two texture, your movie texture size would be shifted up to the next larger power of two size. For example, it you have a movie of 640 x 360 in size, the generated texture would be actually 1024 x 512. The result is a texture that contains a movie in the lower-left corner, and a black pad region to the right and upper portion of the texture.

To work around this limit, you have to display just the lower-left portion of the texture. To see a complete demonstration of this process, see the Media Player sample program.

Even though the positions are reversed (could be a bug or a typo really) this sounds like something that’s happening to you, so you might try and fiddle with their suggestion… (looking in the Media Player example)

More info http://www.panda3d.org/manual/index.php/Playing_MPG_and_AVI_files