Child Of Karras on 2/3/2011 at 00:40
Hi,
some of you might noticed, when playing Thief 1 or 2 on y Windows 7 or Vista machine with a Creative card enjoying EAX via ALchemy - there is no sound in the briefing and cutscene videos. This is due to the 8-bit sound format of the videos.
I've written a little tool using VirtualDub that converts all the videos to 16 bit sound.
IMPORTANT: This tool requires a
FULL installation with all the movies in the "MOVIES" subfolder of your game.
It backs up your original movie files in a folder named "movies_old". You might delete that afterwards manually. Also you won't get any sound improvement except from zero to sound at all.
I've tested this only on my Thief 2 installation so far and it works like a charm here, so other testers (also System Shock 2, if there are briefing videos) are very welcome!
DOWNLOAD:
(
http://www.jaybmusic.net/Eidos/DEnMovSndConv.exe) Dark Engine Movie Sound Converter
Have fun!
(P.S.: I think this thread should sooner or later be made sticky.)
Albert on 2/3/2011 at 05:08
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?
Child Of Karras on 2/3/2011 at 08:58
Tested it on a second computer with WIndows 7 Prof 64-bit now and noticed a few glinches, that I hopefully have fixed now. Please re-download and start the file with admin rights.
And yes, one should acceppt the GNU license and "Start Virtual Dub". I forgot about those windows. :cheeky:
Kolya on 2/3/2011 at 13:36
As far as I know that problem has been fixed with the latest ALchemy 1.43.06 Beta.
Child Of Karras on 2/3/2011 at 23:06
Thanks for that hint, I just checked that. Updated to the 1.43 Beta of ALchemy and repatched Thief. Still the videos don't have sound - at least with me (Windows 7 32 bit, Soundblaster Play).
Kolya on 3/3/2011 at 23:31
Mmh, it's just what I've been told, I run XP. Sorry if I relayed wrong info.
Albert on 4/3/2011 at 01:30
Still doesn't work. Videos stay in the folder now, but I hear nothing, still. :(
I was sort of reading out in the CMD Prompt for Vdub that it wasn't working, or something.
EDIT: Though not involving this tool, I've found I sort of get EAX, even with it set off, in Thief Gold, along with sound in videos.
In fact, maybe it's wise to turn hardware accel. on, with EAX off?
2ND EDIT: This idea doesn't work w/ T2. :(
Child Of Karras on 6/3/2011 at 20:00
Hey, Albert. In case you have VLC: can you play one of the converted videos and open the info screen (Ctrl+I) and tell me what it says about the audio stream, especailly the point "bits per sample"? I want to make sure the conversion worked at all.
Albert on 9/3/2011 at 02:36
Sorry I disappeared there. I was just getting ready for my small break, so I'll check that out.
Boof on 14/3/2011 at 21:46
Just dropping in to say this worked for me (win7 64bit).
Thanks child of karras!