Game Development Community

Need Help - Theora "File not found

by Nicolai Dutka · in Torque Game Builder · 04/11/2008 (9:23 pm) · 4 replies

I have a guiTheoraCtrl and am trying to get it to play a video file. I had NO problems getting this to work in TGE 1.5.2. I am now using TGB 1.7 and I keep getting an error.

Code I've tried:
menuVideo.setFile("~/data/videos/1pexit.ogg");
    menuVideo.setFile("~/game/data/videos/1pexit.ogg");
    menuVideo.setFile("./videos/1pexit.ogg");

No matter what I do, I get the same error in console:

TheoraTexture::setFile - Theora file '~/data/videos/1pexit.ogg' not found.

I don't understand how this is even possible! The files are RIGHT THERE!!
NextNext Thread
PrevPrevious Thread
More from Torque Game Builder


Torque 3D Owner Nicolai Dutka
#1
04/11/2008 (9:34 pm)
Ok, I got it with this:

menuVideo.setFile("game/data/videos/1pexit.ogg");

Associate Phillip O'Shea
Violent Tulip
#2
04/11/2008 (9:44 pm)
If you use relative paths, you need to use expandFilename()

menuVideo.setFile(expandFilename("~/data/videos/1pexit.ogg"));
    menuVideo.setFile(expandFilename("~/game/data/videos/1pexit.ogg"));
    menuVideo.setFile(expandFilename("./videos/1pexit.ogg"));

Justin Jones
#3
06/16/2009 (8:09 pm)
Nicolai

Thanks for the tip. Searched high and lo and did not find it. Finally settled for the full path c:/....

This is exactly what I was searching form.

Video is very choppy though and the GUI gets sluggish.

Cheers.

Torque 3D Owner Nicolai Dutka
#4
06/16/2009 (8:25 pm)
Yeah, it took me a while to get the videos to play back decent. I believe I rendered my videos out in 3ds Max using the Divx encoder with the "Home Video" preset (prolly around 640x480 resolution), then I played around with the OGG converter until I got the files as small as possible while retaining as much quality as I could. The end result was actually pretty good, it just took me a good 8 hours of messing with settings to get something that worked.