RLE Video in-game

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While building some UI bits for the f18 game Ive been working on, I decided I really wanted the TVs in the ready room to play some actual video. I didnt want any thing huge (that consumed memory and cpu) so I decided to make one… because you can… :slight_smile:

Two days later… its looking great. Ive released the project here in a standalone example. I’ll make it extension friendly too (so you can just link it in).
https://github.com/dlannan/defold-rlevideo

Feel free to use it however you want. Happy to answer any questions about it too.

< update > For your own projects add this link in project dependencies:
https://github.com/dlannan/defold-rlevideo/archive/main.zip
Then run the Project → Fetch Libraries and you are gtg!

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Playing Videos
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Great one! Thank you for sharing! :heart:

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Did a little update to this.

Swapped out the io file handling to use resource loading (so it runs in web builds!) :slight_smile:

[ Side note: ] In a month or so, I expect to optimize this to use a streaming texture for the video data and do all the decompression on the gpu shader. This will make the perf quite good, especially since the data sets are quite small.

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