Displaying video inside a 2dapi game channel
Hi all. I've been developing a roku game channel using 2dAPI with roScreen element. One of the features I'm trying to implement is: showing a 400*600 video within the game (during the game. not ful...
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roVideoScreen was deprecated. I don't think roVideoPlayer was.
roVideoPlayer is deprecated according to the logs from the device.
When I create the object it sends the log that it's deprecated.
Any other options you can think of?
If you are unable to use roVideoPlayer (it may be deprecated but sometimes exceptions can be made for games) you cannot mix Scenegraph and roScreen components but you can switch between them. If you just need to play a video, spin up a Scenegraph context to play the video and drop back to roScreen on closing scenegraph.
I need to show a video within the game. In the same time.
You've mentioned that sometimes exceptions can be made for games regarding roVideoPlayer.
Can you expand on this? How can I use it anyway within my game?I do not see rovideoplayer in the list of deprecated
https://developer.roku.com/docs/references/deprecated-apis.md
and does not mention deprecated on the doc page
https://developer.roku.com/docs/references/brightscript/components/rovideoplayer.md
roVideoplayer may have become un-deprecated according to this thread
https://community.roku.com/t5/Roku-Developer-Program/Is-roVideoPlayer-Not-Depreciated/td-p/510580
The warning may be a false flag that was not removed. Contact roku partnersuccess for clarification and have them flag for updating the warning message.
