Buggy - whenever you save an Avi, there must be settings: you may choose a codec, eg. MP4 or Cinepak so something. The diffrences are huge. You need to know th ecodecs. Additionally, you may set the size, framerate, bitrate, color depth etc. of the movie.
I'm using MAGIX Video Deluxe (guess MAGIX Movie Editor in the UK/US).
It is true, if the codec is not installed on a users machine, your movie won't play. If you programmed it badly then it will even crash due to a missing codec.
Unfort. the pre-installed codecs of windows differ very much with every version of the OS. There is NO codec that is present on every windows machine (other than total crappy, useless stuff). The solution is:
your game will open the movie. This will return a movie handle (see examples). If the handle is zero then the codec isn't supported. In this case ExecFile an external Codec Installer EXE that may be distributed with your game.
H&K is right, a true Cutscene renderer that isn't based on movies may be something very nice, although it will take some time and hard work do create something good. Refer to my 1st post.
I'm using MAGIX Video Deluxe (guess MAGIX Movie Editor in the UK/US).
It is true, if the codec is not installed on a users machine, your movie won't play. If you programmed it badly then it will even crash due to a missing codec.
Unfort. the pre-installed codecs of windows differ very much with every version of the OS. There is NO codec that is present on every windows machine (other than total crappy, useless stuff). The solution is:
your game will open the movie. This will return a movie handle (see examples). If the handle is zero then the codec isn't supported. In this case ExecFile an external Codec Installer EXE that may be distributed with your game.
H&K is right, a true Cutscene renderer that isn't based on movies may be something very nice, although it will take some time and hard work do create something good. Refer to my 1st post.