Startup Videos: Difference between revisions

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-[[Category:Tutorials]]You can change the startup video for a game by placing a valid AVI file called "valve.avi" in the <code>media</code> folder (i.e. <code>../half-life 2/hl2</code>, <code>../counter-strike source/cstrike</code>, etc.).{{note|Source 2007 uses "valve.bik" instead of "valve.avi".}}
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-If you are making a mod for HL2 you can place any AVI or BIK file in your mod's <code>media</code> folder. In order for the video to play when you start your mod you will need to create a StartupVids.txt file in <code>media</code>. Inside StartupVids.txt you simply specify the filename(s) of the video(s) you want to be played on a separate line. For example ...
-<pre>
-media/vid1.avi
-media/vid2.bik
-</pre>
-Keep in mind that an AVI video will need to be encoded using the Cinepak codec. It is not known whether audio codecs other than Microsoft ADPCM are supported.
-If you want to suppress the startup videos, you can add the <code>-novideo</code> parameter to your [[Command Line Options#Source_Games|Command Line]].
-DivX is also supported, however there appears to be a size limit to the startup video, so if a video is not played then its filesize is too large, this has been tested with an AVI file over 100 MB.