Enchantermon on 8/1/2009 at 00:51
For some reason Windows Media Player has suddenly lost the ability to play the cutscenes from Thief and SS2. When I try, all I get is the sound and the visualization (as if it was just an audio file playing). I'm pretty sure that this is the cause of another problem: my SS2 and Thief cutscenes not playing in-game. However, I can't prove this definitively yet.
I downloaded (
http://www.cccp-project.net/) CCCP a while ago so I could watch anime. Is it possible that this has anything to do with it? I'd rather not uninstall it, because then I couldn't watch the majority of my anime, but I'll try it if there's no other option. I do not know if this problem first appeared before or after the installation of CCCP.
I know the video files themselves are fine, because I can play them in Windows Media Player Classic (which came with CCCP). Interestingly, I disassociated AVI files from WMP 11 and associated them with WMP Classic, but the problem still exists in-game.
Also interestingly, I have some anime in AVI format, and WMP 11 plays those files just fine.
Any ideas? I've tried all of the fixes in the FAQ for SS2 and Thief, and none have worked this time. In the past, re-registering the codecs has fixed the problem with them not playing in-game, but this was also at a time when WMP 11 would play them just fine.
Windows XP SP2
nVidia Geforce Go 7300
Windows Media Player 11
Windows Media Player Classic 6 (although some modifications have been made by the CCCP team; I'm not sure if they're just cosmetic or not)
Enchantermon on 8/1/2009 at 01:54
No go on the thread. Neither WMP 11 or the game will play the files.
I actually have FFDShow installed as a part of CCCP. I think I'll uninstall CCCP and try FFDShow on its own.
[edit]
Grr...CCCP was indeed the culprit. It borked up WMP somehow, apparently; once I uninstalled it and re-registered the codecs, it worked like a charm.
Unfortunately, FFDShow isn't enough for my anime; some of the subtitles aren't showing and files with dual audio tracks play both at the same time. Thanks, though. At least I found the source of the problem and fixed it. Now I'll just have to mess around with some stuff to see if I can get my anime to play properly. Any advice on this is welcome also, although maybe a PM would be better so the thread doesn't stray off topic.
[edit 2]
Well.....I don't really understand it, but I reinstalled CCCP without the Zoom player, the Haali splitter, or FFDShow (the latter two I had installed separately), and now everything works fine; my anime, Thief, and SS2. Odd. Thanks again for your help, NV! :)
Nameless Voice on 8/1/2009 at 17:49
FFDShow can handle subtitles but you need to configure it in the FFDShow video decoder control panel... I forget exactly where the options are, but they are in there somewhere.
I don't have any videos with dual audio tracks, but there's probably an option for that in FFDShow's audio decoding section.
If nothing else, you can always watch really obscure stuff in VLC Player, it usually plays everything even if it is a truly awful program (and loves to crash whenever I look at it).
I'm fairly sure I've heard bad things about CCCP and other such huge codec packs interfering with things, but if you got it to work in the end, I guess that's good enough.
bikerdude on 8/1/2009 at 20:40
download and install " Klite " codec pack..
Enchantermon on 9/1/2009 at 04:17
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
FFDShow can handle subtitles but you need to configure it in the FFDShow video decoder control panel... I forget exactly where the options are, but they are in there somewhere.
Ah, I see.
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I don't have any videos with dual audio tracks, but there's probably an option for that in FFDShow's audio decoding section.
Possibly. I had this problem a while back, too; I'm not sure what I did to fix it (it might have been installing CCCP).
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
If nothing else, you can always watch really obscure stuff in VLC Player, it usually plays everything even if it is a truly awful program (and loves to crash whenever I look at it).
Is it really? I've never heard anything bad about it, although that doesn't really mean anything.
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
I'm fairly sure I've heard bad things about CCCP and other such huge codec packs interfering with things, but if you got it to work in the end, I guess that's good enough.
Indeed. I'll leave it as is for now, but I'll keep that in mind in case something should go wrong in the future.
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
download and install " Klite " codec pack..
I used to have that, actually. I'm not sure why I don't anymore, but I have a hunch that it was interfering with something (or maybe it didn't play all of my anime), so I axed it.
