[Piranja]

Is it possible to play video in a motd window?

[Shooting King]

I think It is a NO. But you can make it with .gif images.

[Piranja]

khm, you think i can make animation in .gif format and than play it like a video? nice idea

[Aooka]

A video you can test but i think it's just ... Impossible :S

.gif is possible.

[fysiks]

It might be possible, try it out. It would require opening a webpage on a public web server.

[8088]

The Goldsource motd uses IE to render HTML. I'm not sure which version/engine it currently uses and possibly it may depend on the client's OS, but that should be easy to find out (redirect to a script that reads the user agent). I'm fairly certain the object element (with the appropriate CLASSID) can be used, just as with mp3 files and streaming radio. Loading a remote webpage isn't required, because it's still the same engine that has to render the page. The video however has to be plublicly hosted.

[avril-lavigne]

not possible. I tried all methods

[8088]

Turns out you're right. I was curious, so I tried several object methods with all kinds of params, and all they do is play the sound and show controls below a blank player screen.

In case anyone else wants to give it a try, this is how I was identified in CS 1.6 on Win7 x64:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

browscap.ini:

browser_name_regex:§^mozilla/4\.0 \(compatible; msie 7\.0.*; .*windows nt 6\.1.*\).*$§
browser_name_pattern:Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0*; *Windows NT 6.1*)*
parent:IE 7.0
platform:Win7
platform_version:6.1
platform_description:Windows 7
comment:IE 7.0
browser:IE
version:7.0
majorver:7
minorver:0
win32:1
frames:1
iframes:1
tables:1
cookies:1
backgroundsounds:1
javascript:1
vbscript:1
javaapplets:1
activexcontrols:1
cssversion:2
device_name:PC
device_maker:Various
alpha:
beta:
win16:
win64:
ismobiledevice:
issyndicationreader:
crawler:
aolversion:0
renderingengine_name:unknown
renderingengine_version:unknown
renderingengine_description:unknown

objects:

<object classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" id="player" width="320" height="240">
  <param name="url" value="http://lol.com/video_file.wmv" />
  <param name="src" value="http://lol.com/video_file.wmv" />
  <param name="showcontrols" value="true" />
  <param name="autostart" value="true" />
</object>

<object type="video/x-ms-wmv" data="http://lol.com/video_file.wmv" width="320" height="240">
  <param name="url" value="http://lol.com/video_file.wmv" />
  <param name="src" value="http://lol.com/video_file.wmv" />
  <param name="autostart" value="true" />
  <param name="controller" value="true" />
</object>

The good news is that it would look like shit anyway.

[Costin83]

try an autorefresh iFrame in background. I found this the only solution to display video...

[8088]

An iframe or redirect won't make any difference. It's still the same engine that has to render it all. If you got it to work, it must've been the code that was different.