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Hey there! I'm really new to RPG Maker MZ as a whole, so this may entirely be me, but the Plug-In is not working for me and I'm not sure why. From what I understand, this Plug-In should allow a video or picture playout before the Main Title comes up. 

I've installed the Plug-In, I've chosen it to be a video, and then I've entered the file path that's inside the game folder:

/movies/Witch Hunt.mp4 

And then I apply it - I don't change any other settings, just set it to video, enter the file path, and then applying it. I go to PlayTest the game, and...no video plays. The only other Plug-In I have installed is a 3D Plug-In, but I've also tried to disable that just to be safe - it still doesn't play anything prior to the title screen. I'm not sure if I'm somehow missing a step, I've double-checked the comments here and followed the instructions closely. Any tips?

I've also converted to .webm and removed the space in the file, so it now reads as: /movies/witchhunt.webm 


but still does not play during play test. 

Okay, so I looked into this a little bit, as you're not the only person to report it (see below), and I was once again unable to reproduce the problem on my end. It works fine in my test project, with images and with videos.

The problem, as it turns out, is that some update to the core files in the past made it no longer work anymore. I made a brand new test project and copy+pasted the same test files I was using in the test project into it, and it doesn't work. In fact, none of the splashes work, not even the images.

I looked into it a bit more and it seems that RMMZ has an entire splash scene that it defines in RMMZ_Scenes that it goes to before the title scene. I'm not sure what this scene actually does, though, as I don't see any options in the database to use it. Anyways, I managed to quickly fix the issue, as my plugin aliases the function to call a scene, checks if the current scene was Scene_Boot, and that the scene being called was Scene_Title, and then intercepts that call to send it to my pretitle splash scene instead. I just changed that to intercept scene_title or scene_splash. 


The fix will be uploaded shortly.

~Ramza