negativeliberty on 20/10/2010 at 09:33
Sorry about the use of megaupload, I refuse to use rapidshare with their annoying hi-jinks to get you to upgrade to premium. I see they're back up now though, hope it'll stay that way. Anyway thank you Jaxa for providing a mirror in the meantime. I'll look into alternatives/additional mirrors like gmail soon.
I will try to do The Dark Project soon as well, but no promises, at the moment I'm just glad I can resume my TG playthrough :p
SeriousCallersOnly, I would like that as well, although creating a 'self-contained' encode batch file with virtualdub is a bit beyond me atm (although I've seen such vdub based 'patches' before, so it's definitely possible), but I will look into it.
Mortal Monkey on 21/10/2010 at 00:47
Quote Posted by New Horizon
If your OS has the codec installed, it will play them. Shouldn't matter to the game very much what codec they've been encoded with.
This isn't necessarily true. If you're lucky, you'll just miss out on the audio track, but I've had videos play fine in a media player and not at all in the FM they belonged to.
Also, H.264 is a much better codec. With a quantizer of 2-7 you can get video files one tenth the size of these.
KuBiLaY17 on 21/10/2010 at 09:22
Thanks for the great work :thumb:
i downloaded both..
negativeliberty on 23/10/2010 at 15:22
Quote Posted by Mortal Monkey
This isn't necessarily true. If you're lucky, you'll just miss out on the audio track, but I've had videos play fine in a media player and not at all in the FM they belonged to.
That could have any number of explanations (for example, if ffdshow is decoding for WMP/MPC, in which case they'll play in WMP but not in Thief in most cases, unless you manually add an exclusion for Thief in ffdshow's config). Unless you're knee-deep in different codec packs then vids encoded in a codec which is registered with windows should play in-game like New Horizon said.
Quote Posted by Mortal Monkey
Also, H.264 is a much better codec. With a quantizer of 2-7 you can get video files one tenth the size of these.
Of course, however not everyone has the ability to play x264 (or even if they can, play it without issues). And in this specific case of "low-res" animation (at least for Thief 1/G), most of x264's magic (with difference frames and fewer keyframes) is wasted anyway. I wasn't going for low size though, but if x264 played as flawlessly for so many people as VP6 I would've probably chosen that. Deathshadow had his (or her) reasoning though, and for a "guaranteed" workaround it's best to err on the safe side (again though I make no excuses for the file size, I tried a range of bitrates but was only satisfied with these).
When I get around to my next PC and encoding doesn't take so much time I'll experiment with x264 encodes (I wish the original uncompressed vids still existed, re-encoding those would look nice, particularly since most LCDs are so bright the compression artefacts are more visible now).
Mortal Monkey on 23/10/2010 at 20:29
The codec used was Intel Indeo Video 4.5 with PCM audio, and Winamp was used to play it successfully. The computer in question does not have ffdshow installed, but it does have the ir41_32.ax driver.
negativeliberty on 7/11/2010 at 17:23
As requested, here are encodes for The Dark Project:
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NNYVGX2B) Thief: The Dark Project encodes
(I used this host again since the other files still seem to work, and at time of writing so did this. I did try a few others first but the upload speed was too slow or there was a size limit. If it tells you the file is temporarily unavailable try reloading the page a few times, that seems to work.)
CD Set on 20/11/2010 at 00:28
Okay, so I downloaded the movies, and extracted them... still won't play. Looks like my OS doesn't have the codecs.
Am I missing something?
Edit: Okay, so I installed some kind of codec and the videos play if I watch them out of the game... alas, they won't play in game... solution?
LarryG on 6/2/2012 at 19:01
Can someone who downloaded these files (or at least the VirtualDub jobslists) re-upload them? These files seem to have been caught up in the Megaupload shut down by the US government and are no longer available.
AluminumHaste on 7/2/2012 at 00:50
+1 for re-upload :)
