Play a .mov file in a Love2D game?

[Ziggy2764]

is it possible to play a .mov file in a Love2D game. For example, say I wanted to put a video introduction at the beginning of a game, would that be possible? If so, how?

[bekey]

-snip-

[Jasoco]

It's an outdated concept to put a video file in a game these days. In games where you need a cinematic, like big budget 3D games, you just use in-game scenes these days and in small indie games you just use cutscenes and scripting.

A video file on a small game like this is unnecessary bloat and not a high priority. This isn't the '90s. Games don't need to fake it with videos for story telling.

For an introduction, just do a cut scene. A video file would end up being bigger than the sum of your code combined.

[Azhukar]

It's an outdated concept to put a video file in a game these days.

Company logo intros.

Guess all those 'AAA' games are actually outdated, who would have thought.

[raidho36]

Depends on the game. Some titles don't think it's cooler that way to have logos animated, so they're just still images. They're often just mentioned on the game loading screen as a tiny logo at the bottom.

[Ranguna259]

Killzone 3's cutscenes are all videos, if you download the PS3 version of the game you can actually see the videos inside.

But I don't recommend using videos on games, do it only if really necessary

[Jasoco]

Yeah, but those AAA titles also have gigabytes of code and resources so a few videos won't matter. But a small indie game wouldn't benefit at all from a video. Cutscenes are more charming.

[Ranguna259]

GBs of resources, the code is only a few MBs but what you've said is totally right, and since the love games are only one executable it would be kinda wierd having a ~500MB exe, I wouldn't download something like that unless if it was an installer

OP do that only if you really need it

[T-Bone]

I would rather phrase it like this: If you need videos in your game, then LÖVE isn't the right tool to use.