herdell
13th September 2010 14:08 UTC

Play a video in NSIS Installer
  Hi, I've found a tool made in nsis that play a video in the main page. I'm very curious, cause I don't know any plugin able to do something like this.

Can anyone take a look in this program I post here how to this? I'll attach the file below.

EDIT: I uploaded in megaupload, cause I can't attach the files here.
The file contain a virus. I'll upload a clean file later. Sorry.

The name of the video using in this installer, is: "ý«€" just rename it and open in any video player. You can find it in PLUGINSDIR o extracting this installer.

I'm waiting fot answers, thanx...

Animaether
13th September 2010 14:23 UTC

You forgot to include the link. Not that it would help much, as 'decompiling' an installer is tough at best. Why not ask the authors of the installer in question?

If I wanted to do something like that - without programming something myself or poking at the System plugin - I'd probably check if http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsWeb_plug-in would allow me to display a page that has the video as an embedded object.

herdell
13th September 2010 14:48 UTC

Originally posted by Animaether
You forgot to include the link. Not that it would help much, as 'decompiling' an installer is tough at best. Why not ask the authors of the installer in question?

If I wanted to do something like that - without programming something myself or poking at the System plugin - I'd probably check if http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsWeb_plug-in would allow me to display a page that has the video as an embedded object.

herdell
15th September 2010 01:17 UTC

Sorry for the double post, but here don't appear the 'Edit' button this time, so, I can't edit my posts. Here is the link clean of virus. Plese, check it out ,if you can.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2JHSCSC8

And this is the video used by the installer:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=11A2TIVX
You can also find it in the $PLUGINSDIR folder when the installer is running.

If an admin edit my first post with this link, will be great. Thanx...

Animaether
15th September 2010 07:44 UTC

They're creating a SysAnimate32 control.. probably just through nsDialogs.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx

herdell
17th September 2010 23:41 UTC

Can you make me a nsis example file?

Animaether
18th September 2010 08:42 UTC

Originally posted by herdell
Can you make me a nsis example file?

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>!addplugindir "."

>!include "nsDialogs.nsh"

>!include "LogicLib.nsh"

>!include "WinCore.nsh"

>!include "WinMessages.nsh"

>OutFile "$%temp%\temp.exe"


>Section

SectionEnd


>!define ACS_CENTER 0x0001

>!define ACS_AUTOPLAY 0x0004

>!define /math ACM_OPENA ${WM_USER} + 100

>!define /math ACM_OPENW ${WM_USER} + 103

>!define ACM_OPEN ${ACM_OPENA} ; lets use the ANSI one.

!define /math ACM_PLAY ${WM_USER} + 101

>!define /math ACM_STOP ${WM_USER} + 102


Page Custom customPage


>Var dialog

>Var hwnd

>Var null


>Var animationControl


>Function customPage

  nsDialogs::Create 1018

  Pop $dialog

 ${If} $dialog == error

    Abort

  ${EndIf}


  /* match dimentions to that of your AVI, otherwise it will center within control */

 nsDialogs::CreateControl "SysAnimate32" ${ACS_CENTER}|${ACS_AUTOPLAY}|${WS_VISIBLE}|${WS_CHILD} "" 0 0 422 132 ''

    Pop $animationControl

    SetOutPath $PluginsDir

      File "test.avi"

   StrCpy $1 "$PluginsDir\test.avi"

   StrLen $2 $1


    System::Call '*(&t$2 "$1") i.r0'

   SendMessage $animationControl ${ACM_OPEN} 0 $0

    System::Free $0


 ${NSD_CreateButton} 0 150 64 32 "***91;  ***93;"

    Pop $hwnd

   ${NSD_OnClick} $hwnd animation.stop


 ${NSD_CreateButton} 72 150 64 32 "|>"

    Pop $hwnd

   ${NSD_OnClick} $hwnd animation.play


 ${NSD_CreateButton} 144 150 64 32 "|> (x3)"

    Pop $hwnd

   ${NSD_OnClick} $hwnd animation.play3


 ${NSD_CreateButton} 216 150 64 32 "oo"

    Pop $hwnd

   ${NSD_OnClick} $hwnd animation.loop


 ${NSD_CreateButton} 288 150 64 32 "???"

    Pop $hwnd

   ${NSD_OnClick} $hwnd animation.twitchy


  InitPluginsDir


  nsDialogs::Show

FunctionEnd


>Function animation.stop

  Pop $null

  SendMessage $animationControl${ACM_STOP} 0 0

FunctionEnd


>Function animation.play

  Pop $null

 ${MAKELONG} $0 $1 0 -1

  /* $0 = output variable

     $1 = temporary variable used by ${MAKELONG}

     $2 = start frame

     $3 = end frame (-1 = end of video) */

 SendMessage $animationControl ${ACM_PLAY} 1 $0

  /* 1 = play once */

>FunctionEnd


>Function animation.play3

  Pop $null

 ${MAKELONG} $0 $1 0 -1

  SendMessage $animationControl${ACM_PLAY} 3 $0

  /* 1 = play three times */

>FunctionEnd


>Function animation.loop

  Pop $null

 ${MAKELONG} $0 $1 0 -1

  SendMessage $animationControl${ACM_PLAY} -1 $0

  /* 1 = play indefinitely */

>FunctionEnd


>Function animation.twitchy

  Pop $null

  StrCpy $R2 0

 ${NSD_CreateTimer} animation.twitchy.next 1000

FunctionEnd


>Function animation.twitchy.next

  /* there's 86 frames in the animation */

 ${If} $R2 < 76

    IntOp $R3 $R2+ 10

   ${MAKELONG} $0 $1 $R2 $R3

    SendMessage $animationControl${ACM_PLAY} -1 $0

    IntOp $R2 $R2+ 10

  ${Else}

    ${NSD_KillTimer} animation.twitchy.next

    SendMessage $animationControl${ACM_STOP} 0 0

  ${EndIf}

>FunctionEnd 

>

herdell
20th September 2010 15:10 UTC

thanx dude, I'll try.

herdell
27th January 2011 22:45 UTC

I'm back here to another question:

How to show the video during the installation files in the system?

I want that just only during the installation files, the video plays in loop and the window of NSIS still hide, showing only the video, and after finish the installation of the files, the video stops to play, and the window of NSIS appear again in the finish page.

I know how to do this using images, but I've tried with videos using the script provided above by: Animaether, but I can't handle this, cause this is too complex to me.

Someone can help?

This is the video that I want to use in the script (if someone write one to me):

http://www.mediafire.com/?rl2kw12xv6fo6bk

Thanx...

stass
2nd November 2013 10:41 UTC

Code of Animaether why it does not work ... I can not play the files DivX, xVid...
The reason ?
Why there is no plug-in for video playback ?

Highcoder
2nd November 2013 16:34 UTC

AVI is a container for different video formats (codecs). His code work with 8-bit RLE AVIs that has NO audio stream. I think the code for DivX and xVid will be much more complex.

...Note that the AVI should -not- have a sound stream in it, or supposedly the control will refuse to play the video. I'm not sure what restrictions there are on the video codec used, but the example installer used an 8bit RLE video which works... re-encoding that to MS-VIDEO1 (a common, albeit old, codec on the Windows platform) and trying with that didn't work. So you may have to find an authoring suite or converter tool that lets you encode to 8bit MS-RLE for your own videos...

stass
3rd November 2013 11:56 UTC

8-bit RLE

Highcoder
3rd November 2013 14:00 UTC

You´re right that this explanation was not 100% exact. Runlengthencoding is a simple kompression. An the first AVIs were compressed with MJPEG & RLE. Both of them have very low requirements on hardware. You can create those Videos with VirtualDUB i think...