Movie as a background image?

So I’m making a game. In the main menu, I want there to be a movie playing in the background behind everything. After a bit of googling, I found that making a plane and assigning a material with the movie as a texture to the plane is the best idea. So I did just that and for some reason, the movie won’t play. The only thing that shows is the first frame. Solutions?

You can check out this tutorial. It is written for 2.49 but as long as you can find the settings in 2.6 you’ll be good to go.

There’s a 2.7 example blend file in that tutorial as well. It shoooould still work with Blender 2.79.

My setup is the exact same as in the tutorial. It’s a plane, with the video as a texture with the material shadeless. The video does not play. This is in the game engine FYI.

There’s a Blender 2.79!!! Where have I been… I still have 2.70! I suppose I’m not really contributing here lol.

Hahahaha I imagine it’s just a typo brah.

Lol I was wondering where I was all this time! I was getting worried!

You also need to have the script. You can see the mentioned 2.7 example here.