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I tried installing v15 and copying the Steam version's IDE into the folder to no avail. v15 still reports as the demo version and the newer IDE has some weird quirks saving files which cause the precompiler to report syntax errors on line 1 regardless of its contents. For some reason the IDE always points at line 2 though.
Opening newer files with the older editor shows up with 3 glitch characters before the start of the program, so I assume it's some kind of bug with Unicode handling.

In that case, is there a way to get an old version working with my Steam account?

I'm trying to test whether the Windows CE compiler works on version 16 of GLBasic but I'm getting this message:


*** Configuration: WINCE ***
precompiling:
GPC - GLBasic Precompiler V.15.394 SN:552f61ef - 3D, NET
Wordcount:9 commands
compile+link:
/cygdrive/Q/Compiler/platform/WinCE/Lib/libGLBasicWinCE.a(OpenGLRainbows.o)(.text+0x5db4):OpenGLRainbows.cpp: undefined reference to `Z12gf_jpeg_readPKciPiS1_S1_PPh'
*** FATAL ERROR - Please post this output in the forum
_______________________________________
*** Finished ***
Elapsed: 2.6 sec. Time: 23:12
Build: 0 succeeded.
*** 1 FAILED ***



Previously it was reporting files as missing until I copied WinCE from the Source.Zip file over the top of it, but now I get this.
I'm not very good at C so I'm not quite sure what this means, does anyone know of a fix for this?

Thank you!

Shouldn´t the likes of .mov with h264+acc video be standard on every >win7 box?
I haven´t tested such though.

I would have thought so too, I tried a MOV with MPEG2 (like DVD) encoding and it played the sound portion of the video but with no picture.
MP4 files seem to be skipped entirely and the program is resumed without any user input, even when using LOOPMOVIE.

I have run some more tests and I have found that Uncompressed AVI files generated with the freeware preactivated version of HyperCam 2 (it became freeware in 2010) seem to work without issue when recording at 10 frames/second. I will test with different settings with this software and see what works.

Sadly I've had no luck with the formats I've tried. I've tried MOV, MPG, AVI and WMV, with no luck. I'm quite disappointed with the results here as it seems like a very basic feature with little to go wrong. Perhaps the videos have to be a specific frame rate, sadly though I don't have the capabilities of testing this.

I've opened up the successful AVI file in VLC which determined that the codec was "Microsoft RLE Video". This is not ideal since it only supports 256 colors for the video at once.

I don't know how I didn't notice, but there is a sample program demonstrating PLAYMOVIE, that plays back a video of someone tapping the screen of an unidentified handheld game system. This WMV 9 file seems to work every time, so I will try using WMV and see if it works.

I am trying to make a program that sequentially plays movie files. These files are stored as MPG files with MPEG2 encoding. I was able to get a file to play, but only once. Playing any other files, even after closing and restarting the compiled EXE will result in a black screen, and no video being played back.
The only video I have successfully played back multiple times was a small 32x32 AVI animation ripped from a system file of Windows XP. I have not been able to determine the codec of this file. Does anyone have any better luck with another file format and codec, or a way to fix MPG playback?