I was using video textures , and it would not work. In 2.49 or 2.52 all I got was the first frame then a blank. I was using AVIs. finally I tried a 32 bit version of Blender and It worked fine. The problem is I know I did it with the 64 bit version before. Anyone here have any reason why It would not work. I kinda need it to work in the 64.
I had a similar Problem, and I don’t know why it initially didn’t work. Looks like a bug to me. I doubt it will be fixed, as progress is focussed on Version 2.5 right now…
Anyway, what worked for me was opening the scene in 32-bit-blender, saving it and reopening it in 64-bit. After that it kept working in 64-bit. Try that, and let me know if it works.
Video textures are kind of flaky. Only a few codecs are really supported. Perhaps your older video was in one of those codecs and this new one is not. If you want to get the work done simply export the video as a frame sequence and then use that as your texture.
Video texture codecs that have worked for me in the past are Quicktime H264 or Sorenson.
When I work with video textures I always use image sequences.
Never had any problems.
It crops up every now and then and it seems there are only a few advocades of image sequences in this forum.
Ditch stupid containers and compression formats for the working process, you use this to deliver a ready animation to customers or post on the net.
Working with video containers and compressed footage is like painting a car before welding it together.
And if you got footage already as containered video, take the time to make it an image sequence again, although you´ll never restore the lost data, but it saves you a lot of troubles in the production process…