Playing a video

This will be the most basic recipe in this chapter. You'll learn how to load a video file from the hard drive and play it on the screen.

Getting ready

Start a new Processing sketch, and save it in your sketch folder as playing_video.pde. Add a video file to the data folder of the sketch by dragging the video file onto the Processing window. I've used the marbles.mov file for all examples; you can use this one too, if you like. This video file should be in the data folder of your Processing sketch. You can add it by dragging the file onto the PDE.

How to do it...

You need to start by importing the video library. Go to Sketch | Import Library | video, to do this. You also need to declare a Movie object, right before the setup() function. Inside the setup() function, you'll load the video file from the hard drive, and set the video to loop.

import processing.video.*;
  
Movie m;
  
void setup()
{
  size( 640, 480 );
  
  m = new Movie( this, "marbles.mov" );
  m.loop();
}

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