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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Colossus on September 24, 2005, 10:25:13 am

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: Colossus on September 24, 2005, 10:25:13 am

The movies won't play in my game. I uninstalled DivX 6 and reinstalled DivX 5 and they still won't play. I haven't done anything special to my installation; I only have the SCP, FS Port, and the media VPs installed. Anyone have any ideas?

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: redmenace on September 24, 2005, 10:33:33 am

you have the converted divx movies installed?

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: karajorma on September 24, 2005, 11:05:16 am

FS2_Open won't play the MVE movies on the CD. You need avi versions. Check the FS2 download thread in FS General.

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: mikhael on September 25, 2005, 10:24:16 am

Yeah, I've got the same problem, only I know for a fact I do have the AVIs. What directory should they be in?

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: CP5670 on September 25, 2005, 10:39:08 am

\data\movies works for me.

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: Facty on September 25, 2005, 10:54:39 am

What version of the DivX codec are you using?

I had problems with .avi playback in FS2_Open too until I rolled back to DivX version 5.2.1

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: karajorma on September 25, 2005, 01:12:30 pm

Movies should play from anywhere in the FS2 search path so anywhere in Data or a moddir should be fine.

This could be a problem with the codecs as Facty suggests. The Divx 6 codec appears to be doing something naughty even when playing XVid encoded avi files.

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: mikhael on September 25, 2005, 04:53:49 pm

Well, I had them in the wrong place (root of the FS2 directory). Unfortunately, I appear to have the DivX problem. Maybe I'll transcode them into something else and see how that goes.

Title: Can't play movies
Post by: karajorma on September 25, 2005, 04:58:20 pm

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Originally posted by mikhael
Well, I had them in the wrong place (root of the FS2 directory).

They should work fine from there. I had them there for ages and only moved them to another folder later to keep things tidy :)