VideoPlayer GetTexture returns null

Windows
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I’m just trying to play an mp4 video in my game, but GetTexture always returns null no matter what.

Surely mp4 is supported? And if it isn’t, will I have to convert it to another video type?

Code: https://imgur.com/a/NCgFM

Fix?

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I’ve never personally done it, so done a quick google for you as I didn’t think what you were doing was right.

I found this on stack overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14627529/play-video-in-monogame

Which then lead me to the below site from one of the answers:

https://github.com/CartBlanche/MonoGame-Samples/tree/master/VideoPlayer

Open the “Game1.cs” file at the above github site and see how they are playing the video.

In the loadContent put:

video = Content.Load<Video> ("sintel_trailer");
videoPlayer = new Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Media.VideoPlayer();
playVideo = true;

And in the update method put:

if (playVideo)
{
if (videoPlayer.State == MediaState.Stopped)
{
videoPlayer.Play(video);
playVideo = false;
}
}

Note: The stackoverflow question is now 5 years old so it might not work 100%, if not I’m sure one of the more regular monogame users will reply and correct me. :slight_smile:

Hope this helps.