[Sushi]

Yeah, I kept going back to fix little issues here and there, but I'm currently happy with the state of Ancients 1-5. I'm working only on EndGame right now. I have even put my Terran modeling aside. Gotta have priorities you know? (Though I'm quite anxious to work on FS1 Intro...   )

Also, I'm not sure why, but the game will not play my cutscenes. (to test I just named ancients4 to intro). I took the original ancients4 and changed the name to intro and it played as the intro, but it won't play my versions.

They are in .ogg, however they were originally converted to .ogv and I simply changed the file extension. Could that be the issue? I'll be honest, I couldn't find software that straight made an .ogg file that contained audio and video.

Do you get an error, or do the old cutscenes play instead?

Do you get anything different when you try it when running a debug build?

Where in the FS2 directory hierarchy are you placing your files?

[mjn.mixael]

I guess that info would be helpful... I have them in fsport/data/movies.

When I replace 'intro' with one of mine, it simply doesn't play anything. Just skips straight to pilot select.

Haven't tried a debug build, I'll do that now.

EDIT: Same thing with a debug build. It just skips over. No errors. I'm on 3.6.12 also.

[The E]

Can you post the fs2_open.log from the data folder?

[mjn.mixael]

There isn't a log anywhere that I can find.

[General Battuta]

Go to /FreeSpace2/data.

It's there.

[mjn.mixael]

I figured out the issue with the log...

I'm on windows 7, so no program without administrative capabilities can write to the "program files" directory. I ran FS and the launcher as admin, but it simply told me to get a launcher to fix my problem which I though was wierd... it did however write a log file. Though I'm not sure it will give you what you need to know.



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[The E]

That log just sort of cuts off.......Can you run the debug build until the pilot select screen, then quit and post the log from that?

[mjn.mixael]

I can't. In order to get the log to be created, I have to run it as an Admin. This causes it to barely even start up. It quits and tells me that "to fix my problem I need the latest launcher".

While I'm thinking about it, the log really should be written to the AppData folder in Windows, because of the admin restrictions issues.

[General Battuta]

Try moving your whole FS2 directory to C:/Games/.

[The E]

Errm, no, you don't have to run the game as admin. Just delete the fs2_open.log in your data folder, and run the debug build as normal. Then go back to the data folder, and you should see a "Compatibility Files" button under the navigation bar. That one should take you to "%APPDATA%\local\virtualstore\Program Files (x86)\FreeSpace2\data". There, you will find your log.

Incidentally, we are trying to get the engine to not do stuff like this (which was legal under 98 and XP, but is seriously frowned upon under Vista and 7), but it'll take some time.

[mjn.mixael]

I have been outsmarted by E....

Here is the file.

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[FreeSpaceFreak]

Highlight: Not sure what this means, but I bet it's causing the issue.

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Theora ERROR:  Player does not support frame offsets!
MOVIE ERROR: Found invalid movie! (intro.mve)


[The E]

It could be (but I am not 100% sure about this; taylor or others are better equipped to handle this question) that the theora code isn't actually set up to scale movies that are done in higher resolution than the screen res correctly.

That said, what encoder did you use?

[mjn.mixael]

I rendered everything out as an uncompressed AVI. I then used fireogg to encode in to theora.

[Goober5000]

Highlight: Not sure what this means, but I bet it's causing the issue.

Yes, most likely.  The FSO movie player can scale videos just fine, but it's not set up to handle frame offsets.  I think that frame offsets happen when the upper-left corner of the image frame does not correspond to the upper-left corner of the video.  For example if you've got video data in 4:3 but you want to crop it to 16:9.

In other news, this thread is epic.   I hereby bestow on mjn.mixael a new custom title.

[mjn.mixael]

Thanks!

I'll look into the frame offsets issue. It's weird because I have done everything in 16:9 the whole way.

And where in the world is my FS_Open finding intro.mve!?

[Goober5000]

When it looks for "intro.mve", it is really looking for "intro" with any extension.  So it found, and attempted to load, your intro.ogg.

[mjn.mixael]

Ah, I understand. The frame offset issue is a wierd and I can't seem to figure out anything concrete. I've PMed IcyJones to see how he went about encoding .ogg.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

I've used SUPER before, with success. Although the interface is rather poor, it offers many options, and I never had any issues with its videos in-game. Just keep in mind that FS wants the horizontal and vertical sizes to be multiples of 16, so no funny resolutions.

As for how to download: scroll down the page linked to above, click "Start Downloading SUPER ©", there click "download and use" in the middle of the red text, then scroll down again and click "Download SUPER © setup file".
Indeed, their website is horrid.

[mjn.mixael]

SUPER worked, but the file quality (though set as high as SUPER would allow) was really bad. The gamma in general was WAY off. And apparently FS doesn't like FLAC for audio. Shame.

Anyway, I'm trying right now encoding my video at 1088 (which would be the problem) straight out of my video program. I WAS trying to just have fireogg stretch it from 1080 to 1088. Maybe doing it this way will fix the issue.