Child Of Karras on 20/4/2011 at 21:17
Thanks for telling. :)
Somnus on 18/5/2011 at 21:37
Quote Posted by Albert
Hmm, it starts up fine, it says it does the conversion and all that (or I'm too slow to read the console entries), ad yet the MOVIES folder is empty, while the movies it supposedly converted, just got moved.
Any way I can do this manually until then, if this is a problem on my part?
I'm not sure what's going on, but I have a solution that worked for me on Vista.
Note: Try running DEnMovSndConv in compatibility mode for Windows XP with administrator rights. I don't know if that changed anything, but that's what I did before I found this solution.
1) Run Child of Karras' program like normal. First, it will ask if you want to overrwrite something. It doesn't matter, but just click "Ja." Next, seemingly nothing will happen except that your movies have been moved to a new folder called "movies_old", leaving your original "MOVIES" folder empty (which causes Thief to crash while watching a movie) just like you pointed out.
2) Copy the movies (do NOT cut) from "movies_old" back to your "MOVIES" folder. You should now have two sets of the same videos in your Thief directory (movies_old and MOVIES).
3) Run Child of Karras' program again. This time, it should take considerably longer to finish. You may see a screen pop up entitled "AVI Chunk Viewer." You can just X out of this once the black-and-white console program is done running.
4) Once it's finished, you should see a new folder in your Thief directory called "movies_new". Cut or Copy these new movies, then Paste them into your original MOVIES folder, making sure to overwrite every file. (select Move and Replace for all)
You're done now. Run the game and see if you have sound during movie playback. It worked for me on both Thief 1 and Thief 2.
Thanks for the program Child of Karras.
Stefan_Key on 18/6/2011 at 09:14
It worked for me, thanks to all of you !! :D
But for an unknown reason, the intro movie for Thief 2 wasn't converted, just skipped. :confused:
Oh, well it doesn't really matter, but I want to mention it.
I have the french Thief 2, Win 7 Prof.
Surreal Imposter on 18/6/2011 at 23:52
Downloaded, ran it, and it worked like a charm! Old movies in the movies_old folder and new 16-bit movies in the the movies folder. Thank you very much for taking the time to create a fix for this problem.
grokkage on 3/9/2012 at 10:43
Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I found a fix for people having trouble converting under Win7 x64.
The reason this is happening is because there is not a 64 bit version of the Ligos Indeo codec that the video files are encoded with, so VirtualDub freaks out and skips them. However, I have found a solution.
1: Open a command prompt, and run as administrator.
2: type "cd %windir%\syswow64"
3: type "regsvr32 ir50_32.dll"
Windows should now register the 32 bit version of the Indeo codecs, and converting shouldn't be a problem.
Just confirmed this solution works for Thief1 and Thief Gold.
