Playing videos..

[RapchikProgrammer]

Hey i am developing a cross platform game that supports windows mobile and symbian.. now i need to play videos to show cutscenes in my game and as far as i know edge lib doesnt support it.. all i have found till now is that i should use direct draw, symbians CVideoPlayerUtility.. can you suggest a better way or any library that would help me with this.. and secondly how can i use the cvideoplayer class? It needs objects from the native app class and edgelib only gives a handle to its window and a native surface..

[RapchikProgrammer]

Even if videos are not supported any other way you would suggest for playing animations except strips cause these are full screen animations which take 20-30mb in strips which is not viable for a mobile game.. i tried flash but anyway to load flash movies?

[edge]

Hi,

For Symbian we recommend using the CVideoPlayerUtility class and for Windows Mobile DirectShow.

To get the CVideoPlayerUtility to work you can fetch the parameters you need from the following sources:
&RWsSession: CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession() (can be called anywhere)
CWsScreenDevice: *CCoeEnv::Static()->ScreenDevice() (can be called anywhere)
&RWindow: GetWindowHandle() (can be called from within the EDGELIB framework)