Gambit on 6/8/2007 at 20:16
Hi everyone !
I´m new here. Love Thief but haven´t gone very far. I´ve played Thief-1 until the Undercover mission, then I had to reinstall the game. But I will manage to reach the end.
Anyway. I found a good program to get that obscure IDEO codec.
It´s K-Lite Mega Codec Pack version 3.3 (15.9 MB)
You can find it here:
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http://www.codecguide.com/download_mega.htm)
Remember that when you install it there will be a SELECT COMPONENTS window. It will ask which components you want to be installed. Make sure to check all Intel Ideo codecs because by default they are not checked !
Once checked K-Lite will be able to read through that ultra-obscure video file.
Oh. And it´s also useful to remind people that they should use CD 2 to play. Not CD 1. CD 1 is for instalation.
Muzman on 6/8/2007 at 21:39
As far as I know, the problem isn't the codec as such but dark engine games recognising that it is there. Why is why the fix involves re-registering the LG vid file. I may be wrong.
Indeo is not difficult to get anyway; being bundled with the game and I think it comes (or came) with Windows (? maybe XP stopped that)
Abysmal on 7/8/2007 at 09:19
I think the legality of this package is pretty dubious. If I'm not mistaken, it includes a number of ripped commercial codecs that they aren't authorized to distribute (Indeo being one, I imagine).
RavynousHunter on 12/8/2007 at 01:34
Aside from that, I wouldnt trust anything from Kazaa at all. I used to use Kazaa back in the day, but that fucker got so ridden with spyware and shit that i wouldve much rather stabbed myself IN THE FUCKING EYE than even concieve the mere THOUGHT of using Kazaa for ANYTHING.
If it werent riddled with spyware, malware, viri, trojans, and other malicious SHIT, Id download it in a heartbeat. Codecs are good, and having a monopoly on them ensures none of your damn videos have that nasty lil "no codec found" error, which really chides my ass when I wanna see my downloaded music vids and shit and theyre not "in the right format."
General rule of thumb #..whatever : Dont trust shit from places like Kazaa or Napster. They are riddled with shit 97% of the time and are generally more trouble than theyre worth. Trust me, I know my shit.
Somebody_Else on 12/8/2007 at 02:31
Er, K-lite doesn't have anything to to with kazaa. Perhaps you're thinking of kazaa lite?
I've been using it for a long time, it's a great codec pack.
As far as legality, it's sort of a grey area. I just want to see the dang cutscenes in the games I paid for. I don't want to actually use the indeo codec to encode video myself.
RavynousHunter on 14/8/2007 at 04:40
Huh... Didnt know K-Lite and Kazaa Lite were different things... :sweat:
i still stand by my opinion, damn it!
Still, tho, Id be at least a little leery of it. Besides, I think a freeware AVI codec is out there somewhere, as I used that for a long while as a fix, and it worked like a charm.
Somebody_Else on 14/8/2007 at 09:51
Trust me. Kazaa is a filesharing tool. K-lite is just a codec package. ;)
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Lite_Codec_Pack)
There is a special version of the codec pack that contains no "questionable" codecs. They call it the "corporate" version.
june gloom on 14/8/2007 at 18:42
no, k-lite and kazaa lite aren't the same thing, BUT... i wonder if the codec pack was set up because lots of people were downloading movies and shit off kazaa with no way to run them?
Xosmi on 17/8/2007 at 23:31
Beware if you want to play T2X: Shadows of the Metal Age, as the default configuration of the K-Lite codec pack installs ffdshow, and with that packs default config, it will mess up T2X, causing it to crash after 5-10 seconds.
the solution is to disable Vp3 decoding in ffdshow.
(
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111180) see here for more details.
