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Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: MrBackAlleySka on August 29, 2005, 08:50:53 pm

Hello all, i'm new here, and I have a bit of a problem. I tried searching for this, but to no avail. I saw a post dealing with this before I installed, but now I can't remember where it was.

Anyways, I have FS2_open, and the Freespace 2 full version downloaded from somewhere in this forum. (the fs2_open loader, all the .vp files were included, as well as a build)

Everything runs good, except the movie cutscenes, when they play, become choppy. The sound didn't seem to be effected (though i didn't explore this much). but the cutscenes themselves are stuttering and shakey.

Why is this happening, and how do I fix it?

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: achtung on August 29, 2005, 09:13:18 pm

.MVE cutscenes shouldn't even work with FS2_open.  You must have the .avi versions or not even be running FS2_open.


Mine do that too though.

Oh yeah and
:welcome:
I finally get to do that

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: MrBackAlleySka on August 29, 2005, 09:24:45 pm

Yes, it's the .avi movies that are all jittery and choppy. I figured that'd be a given, but I apoligise for not stating that. Anyways, is there no way to fix that? Or is it just something that everyone has to deal with?

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: MatthewPapa on August 29, 2005, 09:35:14 pm

Make sure that you have the xvid codec.

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: achtung on August 29, 2005, 10:26:18 pm

well I've got it and it still plays choppy even in DivX player.

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: MrBackAlleySka on August 30, 2005, 08:05:12 am

Well I found out the problem. It was nothing wrong with anything, it's just the movies themselves I downloaded were choppy. I have a link to download some fixed ones. Just download these and replace ALL the old movies with these new ones. They'll run just perfect.
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~plankerj/fs2movies/

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: karajorma on August 30, 2005, 04:21:02 pm

Hmmm. That's rather odd. What mode are you running in (OpenGL or D3D)? I've noticed a slight bug in OpenGL sometimes where the first second of the movie is choppy but apart from that I've never had any problem with TurboNed's versions of the cutscenes.

The versions you've got now are my versions. I'll happily admit I know very little about making movies. I just pressed buttons monkey fashion in VirtualDub. The fact that I've replaced them with TurboNeds versions should show you what I think about their quality :)

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: MrBackAlleySka on August 30, 2005, 05:41:01 pm

Strange indeed. and no, it wasn't OpenGL, it was D3D I was running on. Oh well, no harm done. Heh, and your movies are of good quality. They look better than the retail versions did.

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: karajorma on August 30, 2005, 05:43:32 pm

The third monologue is the one I'm most ashamed of. Nebula gas should not be square :D


Anyway if it works that's good enough. :)

Title: Choppy Cutscenes
Post by: Turambar on August 30, 2005, 06:56:11 pm

we have the technology to make the cutscenes look better, why dont we?

just set it up and film gameplay, or do it in max or something