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[SBOVIS]

Hi,
    I am using THEIRA and the PlayTheora command, is there anyway that I can play the video clip in its entirety without having to put Sleep commands in for the duration?

As timing the Sleep command is a bit hit and miss and takes ages to get the exact length of the video clip.


Any ideas??

Many Thanks

[Nihil]

Hm, I haven't used videos for a while, but I can't remember that I had to use the sleep command anywhere? what do you need it for?

[metamorphium]

are you speaking about video entities?

if so, then you could do this:

yourEntity.PlayTheora("SomeFile");
while (yourEntity.IsTheoraPlaying()) Sleep(1);

[SBOVIS]

Ahhhhh thanks this helps, but at a certain point in the script the game crashes. But not at always the same place when a multiple of theoras are playing one after another.

I have changed the Sleep value which helps a little to slow things down after each video entity has played but does not totally stop it crashing.

[Mnemonic]

When you say it crashes you should also provide the wme_crash.txt file so that we know *where* it crashes.

[SBOVIS]

Thats just it, it shows nothing in the logs, otherwise I would of attached them. The game exits if I raise the Sleep(1) to anything more. I think it is because of the WHILE loop.

I have tried keeping this as it is Sleep(1) and adding a Sleep(150); underneath to help space the videos as they play to fast after each other. This seems at the moment to be stable.

 

[Mnemonic]

It doesn't generate wme_crash.txt on crash? Are you using WME 1.7.1? And what Windows version?