I've always had some degree of problems with playing Freespace movies ingame. Recently however I seem to have settled that problem by downloading the theora modified ogg files for Freespace 2, and now for the first time since I played off of the CD's I can consistantly see the FS2 cutscene everytime I load up. So I've downloaded the FS1 intro.ogg as a test, put it into the movies folder, removed the intro.avi file, and the oddest thing is occurring. For some reason the FS1 intro seems to play -completely- randomly. I loaded it up, didn't see squat. I loaded it up about 5 times, didn't see squat then on one attempt it just randomly began playing
. I tried the same thing in the tech room and it generally does not play but twice I've hit play, the screen flickered momentarily, and it did indeed begin to play for me.
Now, I find that extremely odd since I'm doing -nothing- different each time I hit play. I should also make note that when I say it "doesn't play" I mean I don't see any visuals whatsoever, but I -can- always hear the audio.