I have recently downloaded and started to use WME, and I am really delighted with its handiness and flexibility.
Thank you for this great job.
Unfortunately, I have found, that theora videos are quite slow on low-end configurations.
I have tried plying 720*576 theora video on 633 Mhz Celeron computer, and it gives 8 fps, while the rest of the game works quite fast on this configuration. Seems like this is because theora does not use hardware GPU resourecs to play video, and CPU power is not enough to display it in real time. I would like to support such slow processors. I have tried different advices, given on this forum (such as perform theora compresion from uncompressed video), but nothing helps.
I came across this problem while trying to make a main menu with a video, being displayed in the backgorund (behind menu buttons). If I did not miss something, Theora is the only way to play video simultaneously with GUI controls.
The video has 600 frames, so, I think, that replacing it with 600 jpg's would not be a good solution
Is there any way to make things beter, or I just have to replace mainmenu background with static image?