XNA Game Studio 3.1 Video Sample

Here’s a sample on how to use the new support for video files in XNA Game Studio 3.1.

All you have to do is add the video file (wmv) to your Content project, and you’re ready to use it with a few lines of code.

The sample loads a video containing a montage of XNA games, released some while ago. After loading it, you can view it in 4 ways (use spacebar/gamepad A to change):

  • simple
  • full-screen
  • using a post-processing shader (reusing some code from Dark Codex’s tutorials)
  • on a rotating sphere object

Here’s some screenshots:

VideoSample 2009-06-11 21-37-40-68 VideoSample 2009-06-11 21-37-41-48

VideoSample 2009-06-11 21-38-04-88

And here’s the sample: VideoSample.zip

P.S. If a video file you have doesn’t work from the first try, try re-encoding it with Windows Movie Maker.

  • #1 written by Alan
    about 2 years ago
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    Any word on the recipe needed to create the WMV? I’ve tried several of my own WMVs and get complaints when compiling the project.

  • #2 written by Catalin Zima
    about 2 years ago
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    There’s some solutions for it in the forums (but they’re offline right now). I only encountered problems with 1 video, and then re-encoded it with degault settings in Windows Movie Maker, and it worked. So I’m afraid I don’t have any “magic recipe” for the videos :(

  • #3 written by Petri Wilhelmsen
    about 2 years ago
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    Thank you for this little article. Was just thinking of adding a video to my application and stumbled across this :)