Playing AVI as a background

Is there a way of playing an AVI behind some OPENGL animation without the use of texture rendering

[yaro_dup1]

Of course. You only have to use special functions for 2D rendering like glDrawPixels or Win32 function StretchBlt (if You're using windows), but texture mapping is usually faster.

[Gavin]

Will quicktime do?

[mdog1234]

there is a tutorial at nehe.gamedev.net that shows how to play an avi in opengl. Its shows how to play them on the sides of cube, cylinders, etc. I think this may help