[Alpha_13]

Okay, I've learned enough to know that FSO does not support the old Freespace and Freespace 2 cutscene formats. My question, is there a way to convert the ones I have into a suitable format or download them? If so, how would I go about implementing them? Also, I have the Freespace port and I was wondering if the same could be done for the old Freespace cutscenes as well?

[Unknown Target]

Do a goddamn search, that's what it's there for.
FSO uses .avi format now. You can download the avi cut scenes somewhere on this forum, I don't know the exact location (that's what the search is for).
And I guess the same could be done for FS1 cut scenes as well, which are also available. But you'd probably have to edit the missions to make them play.

[Grug]

Post the links in here if you do find them, I'd like to grab them too. Plus it will be easier to find for future searches.

Here's a query. Does the FSO support DivX avi?

[Alpha_13]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/movies.html

After some amount searching, I did find that. I am in the process of trying it out. Some of the links are broken so you're probably better off searching Google for the needed programs.

And yes, I think it supports any type of .avi as long as you have the codec to support it. I'm having some difficulty with the intro cutscene (weird chirping noises in the beginning and a frame error at the end), but other than that, no issues so far.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
Do a goddamn search, that's what it's there for.
FSO uses .avi format now. You can download the avi cut scenes somewhere on this forum, I don't know the exact location (that's what the search is for).
And I guess the same could be done for FS1 cut scenes as well, which are also available. But you'd probably have to edit the missions to make them play.

Wow, bro, chill... or you're not allowed to make the first response anymore.

[Falcon]

 Alpha_13

[Alpha_13]

Originally posted by Falcon
 Alpha_13

Thanks.

[Mr_Maniac]

I'm having some difficulty with the intro cutscene (weird chirping noises in the beginning and a frame error at the end)

Yeah, I think I know what you mean
I converted them myself to XviD and the Intro-Video ALWAYS haves this Problem.

[Tolwyn]

http://oregonstate.edu/~plankerj/FS1movies/
and
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~plankerj/fs2movies/

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Alpha_13
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/karajorma/freespace/movies.html

After some amount searching, I did find that. I am in the process of trying it out. Some of the links are broken so you're probably better off searching Google for the needed programs.

And yes, I think it supports any type of .avi as long as you have the codec to support it. I'm having some difficulty with the intro cutscene (weird chirping noises in the beginning and a frame error at the end), but other than that, no issues so far.

You'll find that the movie I encoded myself also suffers from that. I have no idea why.

As for my movies page I'm aware that the link to MVE2AVI was broken (I rather carelessly broke a lot of links when I put the revised FAQ up in response to HLPs downtime in early April and I'm occassionally still finding them. What else did I break apart from that link though?

[Unknown Target]

Originally posted by Raa



Wow, bro, chill... or you're not allowed to make the first response anymore.

Kiss my ass

[stavpoly4789]

I got some of these cutscenes encoded with divx and when they play, I get desktop and the divx player taskbar icon is my start bar and the cutscene is very tiny in the upper left of my screen

[Facty]

Same problem here as the above poster. Cutscenes appear in tiny format in the upper left corner. This happens regardless of the built used (of the builds that play cutscenes in the first place).

This started happening after upgrading my DivX codec (I only have the codec installed. No DivX player or other extra software) from version 5.21 to version 6.

Before that, cutscenes only played sound/music, but no visual.

[Falcon]

Facty

[FireCrack]

Hmm, i had that problem once with the top left corner, but only for one session of gameplay. You've tried restarting right? Closing any superflous programs?

[Fenrir]

That happens to me almost every time. It doesn't seem to have any relation to background programs, since I always run the game without any others. (I need all the RAM I can get!)

[karajorma]

If two of you have would run the cutscenes through G-Spot it might help us track down which codec your computers are using to play them. That might help track down what's causing the problem.

Simply run G-spot, drag and drop the movie onto it and tell me which codec is being used to decode it.

[stavpoly4789]

g-spot says divx version 6.0.0.1571
However i am not sure but it seems as though it is minimizing the game when the cutscene comes up. it maximizes again, but it is in the corner. i had the problem with older codecs when i alt-tabbed and maximized again. It seems that when the codec loads it loads a program that minimizes the program and puts an icon in the task bar. sorry if im not being clear but i just got off a long flight.

[Fenrir]

I'm using the exact same codec as stavpoly. And mine does that minimizing thing, too. I figured that was a normal part of the playback.

[Ghost]

Try using Taylor's build from June 2nd. It works for me; the only problem(which I've seen in other builds as well) is that occasionally, when loading a cutscene, it stops at the loading screen and plays audio. But then again, it happens less in this build than others. And I've had that minimizing problem as well, but this build is now my favorite because it doesn't do that.