Folks,

I have a level that I just put an avi into at home, and it works fine. When I do the same thing at work, it the PLAY_MOVIEFILE instruction acts like it is being ignored.

I put beep instructions above and below it, so I know it is getting to the code. I run in D3D with 640 x 480 screen resolution, same as the AVI was made in.

I am running a GEForce graphic card with the latest NVIDIA drivers, DirectX 8, A5 and Win 2000.

Can anyone offer some suggestions on this? All other graphics and sound seem fine, except for some render related DLL stuff, which also seems to be being ignored.

Please help if you can!

- Puzzled Puma

I'll have to look into this further but the obvious question is are you sure the movie file is being copied over to the second machine?

Anyone else having this problem?

Yup. I'm sure.

I have since discovered that this Avi runs outside of 3DGS but not inside, and that I have other AVI's that will run both inside a game, and outside.

The problem AVI was made with MPEG-4 codec. Has anyone else used that and gotten it to work?

-WildCat

Maybe 3DGS has it's own internal AVI player, that supports some specific AVI codecs and not others?

JCL, could you tell me how AVI's work internally?

-WildCat

Just to clarify, does this AVI run under 3DGameStudio on either machine (I want to know if it is machine dependent or media dependent).

Doug,

It works on my home machine inside and outside of 3DGS and not on my work machine inside 3DGS. (works fine outside though)

You got the file I sent you to test with, right?

-WildCat

I've been unable to run the file under 3DGameStudio on my test machine here in the office.