Playing Videos in SP?

[Flashy]

Hi again all,

 

I am having trouble with playing a video with the Media Translator in a SP mission. I have saved the video file in the correct (I think) .bik format using RAD video tools, and I can watch it in my media players etc, and have referenced it correctly in the Media translator MCU properties, but it just does nothing when triggered. The translator works fine for playing mp3 sound files, but just does nothing when I change it to video and choose the video file. Has anyone managed to get it to work in SP missions, or is it broken? Is there maybe some other "version" of .bik that we need to use? I even tried playing some .bik video files that were included in the "Alberts Life" missions (although those videos were for the St.Mihiel RoF campaign weirdly.. ) and they didn't work either. Anyone know anything about getting videos to play in SP missions? The below pic shows what I have: Begin mission -> 10 sec time -> Media MCU with video setup.

 

thanks!

[JimTM]

There's a problem in the media translator. IL-2 now uses webmplayer to display videos instead of bink. You need to create a webm video and then change the file extension from ".webm" to ".bik" before setting it in the translator advanced properties.

Edited January 2, 2019 by JimTM

[Flashy]

Omw, thats... amazing! Thanks Jim! I dont even want to know how you figured that out - I was at my wits end trying everything from converting my video to a flash file, an animated gif, 2 different types of .bik. Guess I should have seen the other webm videos in the Il-2 folder and tried that, but I never would have thought to rename a .webm to a .bik! This mission editor makes me laugh sometimes. You can tell its Russian cant you? Nothing is easy  

 

"in Soviet Russia, mission makes you!"

[JimTM]

11 minutes ago, Flashy said:

Omw, thats... amazing! Thanks Jim! I dont even want to know how you figured that out - I was at my wits end trying everything from converting my video to a flash file, an animated gif, 2 different types of .bik. Guess I should have seen the other webm videos in the Il-2 folder and tried that, but I never would have thought to rename a .webm to a .bik! This mission editor makes me laugh sometimes. You can tell its Russian cant you? Nothing is easy  

 

"in Soviet Russia, mission makes you!"

 

All the credit goes to @JG4_dingsda on this one.  

Edited January 2, 2019 by JimTM

[Flashy]

5 minutes ago, JimTM said:

 

All the credit goes to JG4_dingsda on this one.  

 

Thanks to JG4_dingsda then!

[Thad]

1 hour ago, Flashy said:

You can tell its Russian cant you? Nothing is easy  

 

"in Soviet Russia, mission makes you!"

 

Absolutely comrad. ?