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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?

 

Offline redmenace

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you have the converted divx movies installed?
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FS2_Open won't play the MVE movies on the CD. You need avi versions. Check the FS2 download thread in FS General.
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Yeah, I've got the same problem, only I know for a fact I do have the AVIs. What directory should they be in?
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\data\movies works for me.

 

Offline Facty

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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

 

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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.
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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.
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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 :)
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