Bink videos in game

[Limpet]

Hello all,

While looking at bink videos I saw references to using pixel shaders for rendering (I'm assuming how it's displayed on screen?).

What I'd like to know is if it's possible use these shaders within the source engine to playback bink videos.

I don't know how the shaders work for bink so I'm just assuming that these shaders work the same way the source engines uses them.

I know Valve have used bink videos and I would assume they have access to the SDK but I don't guess that license carries over to 3rd party modders.

 

[tschumann]

Have a look at the hlcoders archive. I'm sure this has come up before. I think if you want to play bink videos in game you play them on a vgui panel or something.