Fake McFake on 15/8/2008 at 05:15
None of the fixes worked for me. It's running vista if that matters. Reinstalling the videos from the CD only makes a vista thing pop up saying that the program didn't install correctly. Scrooge's fix just didnt do a thing. And i get error 0x80070005 when I do the third fix. Is there something i need to do to windows to get them working?
nicked on 15/8/2008 at 06:48
have you installed the newer Indeo codecs? If not, just google K-Lite Codec pack for an installer of loads of codecs, and make sure you put the Indeo ones on. I'm running Vista and my videos play fine after running this fix.
deathshadow on 15/8/2008 at 12:21
I just had it occur on my machine YESTERDAY where it was working fine until I upgraded to the newest nVidia graphics drivers - mind you I'm on XP x64, but same thing - none of the videos would play and the normal fixes from the FAQ didn't work.
Which is why I came up with my own fix by simply re-encoding the videos in VP62. VP6 is the codec used by most flash videos these days, so you can be fairly certain it's present.
(
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122477)
This rar file (142 megs) from that post:
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http://rapidshare.com/files/137423596/MOVIES.rar)
Has my re-encoded movies (for Thief 2) that 'solved' the problem for me. I was going to see if I could get T:Gold working next.
Question before you go downloading it though - are you able to play the AVI files directly in media player? If they play, is the frame rate messed up and/or the audio garbled? That's a symptom I had with indeo video after my driver upgrade.
Basically, **** indeo - it's been nothing but problems for users since day one, so let's just take the videos and re-encode in a codec without the problems.
Fake McFake on 17/8/2008 at 23:04
nicked's fix didnt work. I tried it twice and it didnt do anything.
the only avi files i can seem to find are two movies from a fan mission, and those do play in windows media player.
sNeaksieGarrett on 17/8/2008 at 23:19
Two suggestions I can think of since I noticed this thread:
1.) Forget trying to run thief the old way, use (
http://timeslip.chorrol.com) DDFix by Timeslip. Check the box "video fix" in the GUI version - I'd get the GUI version if you aren't technically minded.. Actually, heck, I'd get the GUI version anyway.:cool:
2.) In addition to 1, or instead of 1, install the Indeo Codecs from the thief CD.
