How do I use Startup Movies? white screen/memory issue - 4.2

carlos456
Wed, 04 Jun 2014 23:29:13 +0000
Platform & Builds

Greetings,

first a disclaimer: I don’t really know what I am doing

With the 4.2 release today the option was added to wait for the startup movies before jumping into the level.
So i decided to try it out.
After adding a small random mp4/h264 video in the Project Settings and checking the “Wait for Movies to complete” checkbox i started the game preview in “standalone game” mode, which launched its own process and played the startup video followed by the level. Just as i wanted it. Awesome.

So i packaged it, because why not…started the standalone packaged windows version and the startup video played…however the screen stayed white. No video there, just a white screen and the videos audio was to hear. After that the level loaded.

Another thing I noticed when closing the game while the video was playing was that the process did not close. It stayed open and I was still able to hear the audio from the video. Even after the video should have been finished the process did not close. It instead was still listed in the taskmanager, whre it moved to backgroundprocesses and there it was just sitting and slowly filling up the RAM.
This applies to both the packaged version and the standalone preview in the editor.

So…uhm…is it me or is there something broken?

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