in-game Thief Movies (briefings) look worse in-game than when played in Windows? - by KoHaN69
KoHaN69 on 4/11/2009 at 21:23
Hey taffers.
I noticed that the in-game movies look slightly worse in-game, than than they do when I play them with Media Classic (CCCP codec pack).
It seems the in-game has 'dithering' like a compressed old gif file, but when played in MPC, they are just 'blocky' like high mpeg compression.
Did anyone else notice? Is there a cure? Did anyone try 'cleaning up' the movies in the cutscenes?
CaptSyn on 4/11/2009 at 21:25
I blame the crappy Indeo codec more than anything.
KoHaN69 on 4/11/2009 at 22:28
Did anyone try buying the latest version of it and see if it looked any better?
edit: I installed the latest version:
(
http://www.video-drivers.com/drivers/8/8552.htm) iv5setup.exe
and the movies look exactly the same as with the older one (the screen looks like a purple bayer dithering instead of black)
maybe I have to delete the old codecs first? does anyone know where they are located/filenames? thanks
theBlackman on 5/11/2009 at 09:41
As far as that goes, I have no problems with the original codecs. The games look fine. But then I see no reason to, or ever had a desire to run the game briefings in windows media player outside the game.
I did copy all the cutscenes and convert them for players who never saw them or don't have the games. I do have all the briefings movies/cutscenes loaded at EZFOLK, and in game or on the computer with a player (FLV) or my ATI player or windows media (AVI) they run fine.
KoHaN69 on 5/11/2009 at 20:08
Quote Posted by theBlackman
As far as that goes, I have no problems with the original codecs. The games look fine. But then I see no reason to, or ever had a desire to run the game briefings in windows media player outside the game.
I did copy all the cutscenes and convert them for players who never saw them or don't have the games. I do have all the briefings movies/cutscenes loaded at EZFOLK, and in game or on the computer with a player (FLV) or my ATI player or windows media (AVI) they run fine.
Well, What I am asking one to do is to watch an in-game movie, then watch it outside of the game using a modern media player and spot the difference.
mudi on 5/11/2009 at 20:51
No difference on my computer at least. Both lgvid and media player using 'official' indeo codecs
theBlackman on 5/11/2009 at 20:58
Quote Posted by mudi
No difference on my computer at least. Both lgvid and media player using 'official' indeo codecs
Samo, samo. No discernable difference to my aged eyes.
jtr7 on 5/11/2009 at 23:02
Screenshots would be nice.;)
Sneaksie on 6/11/2009 at 08:07
After installing Win7 i got tired of these indeo codecs problems and converted all the cutscenes to sane format (mp4 if i remember correctly). Now they play in the game fine.
KoHaN69 on 6/11/2009 at 11:25
Quote Posted by Sneaksie
After installing Win7 i got tired of these indeo codecs problems and converted all the cutscenes to sane format (mp4 if i remember correctly). Now they play in the game fine.
What program did you use? or what were the exact settings?
