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Hi, I'm running into a bug when I deploy my game. It works fine in the editor.

I'm only using the background movie with no special settings.
The issue persists even if I deploy with only the Ritter Title Movie Plugin enabled.
If I deploy with everything except the Ritter Title Movie Plugin, there are no errors throughout the entire game.
I tested this on two different computers and the issue persists.

No video plays when the game starts. When I choose "New Game," this appears:

I'm willing to send you my exported project if it'd help. I'm also happy to leave a generous tip if you can fix this soon!

notRitter38 days ago (1 edit)

Hello, I'm sorry you've hit this problem. I'll take a look into it as soon as possible!

Edit: I've ran some tests and I'm unable to replicate this. What platform are you deploying to? What version of Title Movie Plugin are you using?

setalia38 days ago

I'm using version 2.8. (Although it was present in 2.6 also, I upgraded to see if that fixed it, and it didn't.)

I also originally had only .webm, but I added .mp4 also, and that didn't fix it, either.

I'm exporting to Windows.

setalia37 days ago

Some additional information:

Movies in-game work just fine. It's only the title movie that bugs out.
I have a skip movie hotkey I scripted into my game to skip in-game movies. A while back, I would get the same error if I skipped things too fast. I fixed it by adding the "currentTime" line. Maybe that can help get you on the right track for why it's happening? Maybe something is happening too fast?

I'm still open to sending you my exported project if that'd help you investigate.

setalia36 days ago

Something strange is going on, but I think I've found a workaround.

I tried setting a different movie as the background movie.
In the editor: the original movie still played (not expected)
In the deployment: the different movie played without an error (expected)

This now leads me to believe that something between the editor and the deployment is trying to play two movies at the same time? Whatever's going on, I successfully got a workaround by making a copy of the title video and giving it a different name.

notRitter36 days ago

Oh that's interesting. I'm glad you found something that works. I'm curious though what the difference is between the two filenames if that did fix the problem. Could you show me the filenames and maybe a screenshot or two of your plugin parameters? That might help narrow down why you hit that problem and prevent others from hitting the same problem.

In the meantime I'll continue to try to get the plugin to fail where you had problems, but so far I've still had no luck. Whenever I deploy my test projects the deployed version works no problem. I've had some ideas of what could be causing the problem but being able to get it to fail and crash in the first place has been unproductive so far.

Welcome to Elderfield36 days ago (1 edit)

To add some info that might help - I've had players get this bug before, and have had it a few times myself. It seems to happen when the skip key (OK button) is pressed extremely quickly (like if you launch the game and mash OK repeatedly, especially on a slower device). It seems to be a problem with aborting playback before it even fully started, or something like that.

setalia36 days ago

The files are just title.webm and titleb.webm.

However, a second bug occurred, in that loading the game would still play the title screen movie (although not visible, the audio would overlap).

I noticed that I had "Options and Load Game Video?" turned off, and the video doesn't show on the options and load game (but the video's audio still plays). I don't know if that's intended.

When I turned on "Options and Load Game Video?", the video shows on those screens, and it stops correctly. However, when I quit to title, there's 1 frame of the video at its last timeframe before it resets back to the beginning.

So that's another workaround to fix the issue. I'd rather the video not show on those screens, but at this point I'm just thankful it mostly works.

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