How to play video file from skin button ? (1 Viewer)

Thread starter xavier
Start date November 7, 2014

xavier

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November 7, 2014

...it's possible natively ?

Or I need some plugin ?

P.S. Video file it's on shared folder of a network pc.

Regards,
xavier.

ltfearme

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November 11, 2014

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#2

That feature is not possible from the skin engine alone.

You would need a plugin to make something play.

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