Video sequences put in the background

[Mantoid]

Is there ANY way of getting a video file to play in the background (as opposed to being on top of everything)?? I don't care what format the video has to be; .avi, .mpeg, .mov, anything!

[LIJI]

There is an example about it for MMF1.5.
http://www.clickteam.com/CTforum/showflat.php3?Cat=&Board=upload&Number=294121
If you do not have MMF1.5/you can't open the file in MMF2 try and recreate it by the description with the video object you're using, that shouldn't be hard.

[Mantoid]

By the gods! It works! Thanks a lot.

[Mantoid]

Okay I got a bit of a problem with this. It seems that alpha channels appear as black when on top of a video, anyone have any idea why this might happen or how to fix it?

[RedHades]

You can't.
You need to understand that the video is being displayed POST to the mmf rendering. Anti aliasing, semitransparency and alpha blending of objects are done with the black color during the mmf render pass.
So only objects fully opaque with crisp edges should be used with that method.

[Mantoid]

Oh, well that's screwed up everything then. I wish there were a way of sticking the videos in the background without having to fool the program in a weird way. Thanks for the help anyway!

[LazyCoder]

I didn't know .avi files could have alpha channels.

[Novabrain]

Warning:

Joewski contacted me on this one. It was exciting at first, but even if it works on your machine, you can't count on it working universally if you distribute your application.

I know that's disappointing. Many of us would like to have some way of using video as a background. It would be great if this limitation could be overcome someday with a special, video extension, though ... like Active Video

We do see specialized software that can put "objects" over video, like Adobe After Effects, but they are designed to work with video, not create games and applications.

[aidmm]

It would be great if this limitation could be overcome someday with a special, video extension, though ... like Active Video

I think I read somewhere that Vista has the capability of having HD video as the desktop "wallpaper"... so future (vista compatible) versions of MMF objects could probably take advatage of these new features... (of course, seeing is believing...)

[LazyCoder]

We do see specialized software that can put "objects" over video, like Adobe After Effects, but they are designed to work with video, not create games and applications.

Not to mention that After Effects doesn't have to work in real time.