hexarith on 9/4/2006 at 22:14
Hi Taffers,
Two weeks ago I cleaned my room from old retail hardware boxes. One of the boxes hold a Gfx card and: A Thief3 CD-ROM. Nice like Eidos was it came without annoying CD Key or copy protection (was the the same with Thief3 retail?)
As a old DeusEx fan I thought: "Great I got holidays and have some time to kill", let's see if they learned from the mistakes of DeusEx:IW. IMHO they did and Thief3 rocked.
But unfortunately I never played Thief 1 and 2 until then, so I got those, too. And was disappointed, that they didn't install in the first place. Thanks to the FAQ here on TTLG I solved that, too BUT still no solution to the video codec problem.
Developing a game engine myself I hooked the thief executable into the debugger and watched the way, how videos are to be played and discovered, that it uses a regular DirectShow Graph with an automatic(!) codec detection. Thus every codec will work, not just Indeo.
To solve the problem permanently recode the videos to a widely spread codec, like MPEG4 (DivX). I did so and it works perfectly.
Now I'm going to play Thief 1.
GoldenNugget on 9/4/2006 at 22:29
this sounds good. So how do you recode the videos? Thanks.
hexarith on 9/4/2006 at 23:11
Quote Posted by GoldenNugget
this sounds good. So how do you recode the videos? Thanks.
Any program for video file manipulation will work.
Windows Users most likely will use VirtualDub, avaliable at (
http://www.virtualdub.org)
Linux Users I'd recommend the mencoder program, coming with mplayer. You must have installed the win32 codecs package so that it can read the video.
Actually I could pack the recoded videos into an archive and provide them for download.
Shoshin on 10/4/2006 at 20:03
I'll have to give this a try, since it annoys me to have to continually reinstall the Indeo codecs. Thanks for posting this info.
