Video Playback

Overview

Rpg Tools supports the MPEG 1 video format(usually .mpg or .mpeg files)

According to the documentation of the pl_mpeg library I use:

Most MPEG-PS (.mpg) files containing MPEG1 Video (“mpeg1”) and MPEG1 Audio Layer II (“mp2”) streams should work with PL_MPEG. Note that .mpg files can also contain MPEG2 Video, which is not supported by this library.

You can encode video in a suitable format using ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v mpeg1video -q:v 0 -c:a libtwolame -b:a 224k -format mpeg output.mpg

-q:v sets a fixed video quality with a variable bitrate, where 0 is the highest. You may use -b:v to set a fixed bitrate instead; e.g. -b:v 2000k for 2000 kbit/s. Please refer to the ffmpeg documentation for more details.

See pl_mpeg documentation for more details

Playing videos

You can start videos via action “Start Video”, via Cutscene or via Lua scripting