tutorials/animation/playing_videos

[giscus[bot]]

tutorials/animation/playing_videos

Godot supports video playback with the VideoStreamPlayer node. Supported playback formats: The only supported format in core is Ogg Theora(not to be confused with Ogg Vorbis audio). It's possible f...

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/animation/playing_videos.html

[NicholasDewberryOfficial]

We ought to remove the handbrake reference from this page. It's incapable of converting video from mp4 to ogv, and this page is misleading people.

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1ddo256/how_do_i_convert_an_mp4_video_to_ogv_using/

https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/1408he6/convert_from_mp4_to_ogv_for_godot_without_using/ (comment at the bottom saying they couldnt use ffmpeg)

Instead, I'd recommend adding: https://www.shutterencoder.com/ to the documentation. It's a GUI for FFmpeg and is great for beginner developers who just want to downsize videos without any complex legwork.

[Calinou]

This documentation change was merged in master but wasn't cherry-picked to stable yet.