loop feature / using callbacks

[lerabot]

I've been testing your library recently and integrating it it my game.
I have some problem with the callbacks. I can't seem to use the quit callback, maybe I'm getting something wrong.

In order to cancel the video, i'd need to return 1. even if I do that, nothing happen unless its on the last frame.

[multimediamike]

Wow! Exciting to hear that someone is actually using this project. Thanks for the feedback.

What platform are you building this on?

[lerabot]

Building on Linux mint using the Kos toolchain.

[lerabot]

I just re-read your dreamroq-player.c file and figured somethings out. You don't need to have dreamroq_play() called over and over to play the file right? You can just call this once and the video will keep playing?

This is where I messed up I think. I'll report back in a few days :)

[multimediamike]

Nice, you're actually doing this on kos/DC, where I originally developed it. Glad people are keeping the platform alive.

I'm reviewing how the code works, but yes, it's one blocking call to the dreamroq_play() function which returns after the video has completed.

[lerabot]

actually, since we're chatting about it, is it possible to have alpha in the video? I can see some mention of ARGB but I can't figure out how to encode the video correctly.

[lerabot]

I fixed my issue for my game :) by the way you can check the repo here https://github.com/lerabot/reaperi_cycle

[multimediamike]

Indeed, there are RoQ files with ARGB. They were used in the game The 11th Hour and this library supports decoding them. However, it might be a challenge to find software that encodes the ARGB variant.