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Trailer to loop?
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 3:50 pm
by ETF
Attending a military gamers CON and wanted to loop the opening credits/video when people are not playing on the CPU's. Any ideas on how I would do this?
Thanks so much.
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:23 am
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: ETF
Attending a military gamers CON and wanted to loop the opening credits/video when people are not playing on the CPU's. Any ideas on how I would do this?
A little custom program ? I'll look into this tonight - you mean the video with the German paras and the Greek music right ? and the Windows Media Player to play it on ?
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:16 pm
by ETF
Yes sir I was hoping to use that one...... Just trying to figure how to keep her going
Appreciate your help!
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:38 pm
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: ETF
Yes sir I was hoping to use that one...... Just trying to figure how to keep her going
Appreciate your help!
I made a quick and dirty program to do just that
http://w17.easy-share.com/1701973918.html
Extract the exe from the zip - put it in the same directory as COTA.avi and doubleclick PlayWMV.exe to start the program. Click the "Start" button. Now every 2 minutes the COTA.avi movie starts to play, stops and starts again. Click the "Stop" button and it'll play one more time before stopping.
Give it a go to see if it works on your system - it works over here (famous last words)
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:34 pm
by ETF
oh Thank you So Much!
The CON is this weekend. Expect a few thousand people. I'm sure my DEMO of Panther games will be a big hit. It was last year!
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 5:39 pm
by ETF
Wow works great!
What program did you use? Would it be hard for me to do HTTR this way also?
Thanks Again!
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 6:08 pm
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: ETF
What program did you use?
Delphi 7 - the source code is free if someone wants it.
ORIGINAL: ETF
Would it be hard for me to do HTTR this way also?
Not really - what's the name of the file and how long does it take to play it (in seconds) ?
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 12:30 am
by ETF
HTTR is just Highway to the Reich. I will look up the run time.
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:35 am
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: ETF
HTTR is just Highway to the Reich. I will look up the run time.
No, what I mean is the exact name of the file you want to loop and the duration in seconds - Windows Media Player gives you total playing time in the bottom right corner.
The reason is that I only have the beta version of HTTR installed, which doesn't contain the movies, because I gave my box/full version away to a friend who I thought I could turn into a fan of the series. So I'll be programming this "blind" without being able to test it.
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 11:58 am
by James Sterrett
I'm curious, by the way: What's your demo method?
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:51 pm
by ETF
ORIGINAL: sterckxe
ORIGINAL: ETF
HTTR is just Highway to the Reich. I will look up the run time.
No, what I mean is the exact name of the file you want to loop and the duration in seconds - Windows Media Player gives you total playing time in the bottom right corner.
The reason is that I only have the beta version of HTTR installed, which doesn't contain the movies, because I gave my box/full version away to a friend who I thought I could turn into a fan of the series. So I'll be programming this "blind" without being able to test it.
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
Oh ok sorry about that. The File name is HTTR.avi and the run time is 1:52. Is this what you would need?
Thanks Again!
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 7:55 pm
by ETF
ORIGINAL: James Sterrett
I'm curious, by the way: What's your demo method?
Well we are setting up about 8 laptops during the CON and running 4- 2 player games of HTTR and COTA. Just trying to get more people from our miniature and board gaming club to enjoy computer wargames. Some still fear computers after being burned by real time junk that purports to be strategy games.
We are also running a 8 player LAN of Hearts of Iron II/ARM/MEM addon's
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:38 am
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: ETF
ORIGINAL: sterckxe
ORIGINAL: ETF
HTTR is just Highway to the Reich. I will look up the run time.
No, what I mean is the exact name of the file you want to loop and the duration in seconds - Windows Media Player gives you total playing time in the bottom right corner.
The reason is that I only have the beta version of HTTR installed, which doesn't contain the movies, because I gave my box/full version away to a friend who I thought I could turn into a fan of the series. So I'll be programming this "blind" without being able to test it.
Oh ok sorry about that. The File name is HTTR.avi and the run time is 1:52. Is this what you would need?
Thanks Again!
Yup - that's what I needed to know.
PlayHTTR.zip can be found here :
http://w14.easy-share.com/1701999429.html
Unzip, put exe in HTTR.AVI directory ... same drill
Enjoy your convention, got one coming up next week as well
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 9:05 pm
by ETF
Great both work like a charm!
All set for a great Weekend. Wish me luck on getting some converts
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:08 am
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: ETF
Great both work like a charm!
All set for a great Weekend. Wish me luck on getting some converts
Threaten them with the Panther Inquisition if they won't convert - or that you'll send over Ray Wolfe to tell old war stories - whichever sounds the most frightening [;)]
Have fun !
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:25 am
by Arjuna
Thank you Rick and to you too Eddy. Rick, please let us know how it went.
RE: Trailer to loop?
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:55 pm
by James Sterrett
ORIGINAL: ETF
Well we are setting up about 8 laptops during the CON and running 4- 2 player games of HTTR and COTA. Just trying to get more people from our miniature and board gaming club to enjoy computer wargames. Some still fear computers after being burned by real time junk that purports to be strategy games.
We are also running a 8 player LAN of Hearts of Iron II/ARM/MEM addon's
Wow - you've got plenty of computers! [:)]
How did it go?