Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

#36300399456 02/04/2008 05:12:42 Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Hi,

for some reson i can't see the cinematics ingame. I hear teh sound but the player stays just black. Anyone experiencing the same or has any ideas?

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#36300399459 02/04/2008 05:16:37 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Yeah, you have to wait like a half an hour or something now for them to work (well for me atleast). Here's a link to download them and watch them: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=10400152477

Enjoy

#36300399468 02/04/2008 05:48:31 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Hmm.. something strange is going on here even when i download teh cinematics or try to watch them on the site I just get black screen and sound. Anyone got any ideas for that?

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#36300399477 02/04/2008 06:49:40 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Do you have Windows Media Player 10 11 installed?

EDIT: -_-

#36300399495 02/04/2008 07:53:02 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

I have MediaPlayer 11 installed.

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#36300399497 02/04/2008 08:12:40 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

SwiftShadow wrote:

I have MediaPlayer 11 installed.

Hah, that's what I get for posting that early. Sorry, I meant 11. Hmm...that's weird since they're in WMV format...

#36300399526 02/04/2008 09:09:59 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Could be a missing or corrupted file. Did you full system check the game?

#36300399535 02/04/2008 09:32:14 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

XXT wrote:

Could be a missing or corrupted file. Did you full system check the game?

Even if he downloads them and views them out of the game, he still gets no video, meaning it isn't a problem with the game files.

A black screen, but still being able to hear audio, suggest a problem with a video codec, may have become corrupted if you recently installed other media playback software.

I assume that you can not watch video playback of anything you try and play in WindowsMediaPlayer? (Have you been able to before? and it recently stopped for no apparent reason?) If so this can usually be solved by a system rollback to the last time you knew you was able to watch video media in WMP. Sometimes Registry entries go 'missing' and can cause such problems, and the rollback can sometimes rectify them, however it is not 100%

#36300399584 02/04/2008 11:29:32 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

I ran the cinematics directly of my HD and from the website, they appear to be working.

#36300399782 02/04/2008 15:57:21 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

I can play anything exept the Matrix videos, thats the wired thing. I#LL try the rollback I think but my system si pritty new so tehre isn't much to roll back.

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#36300399795 02/04/2008 16:19:04 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

If all else fails, just search youtube.

#36300399796 02/04/2008 16:19:34 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

The cinematics use plain-old WMV3 video codec (and WMA v2 for audio).

Go to this Microsoft page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi...p;qstechnology=
Set the download to Codecs Installation Packages
Set the version to For Windows Media Player 7.1 or later

Download the codec package and install it.
If that doesn't fix it, reinstall your video drivers.

If that still doesn't fix it post back and we'll go from there.

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#36300399973 02/04/2008 23:05:18 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Hi thx for the help, I have a problem to install the codec becaus the one you said I should install says it won't install on my system because ist for Win 98, Win ME and Win 2000. My system is Win XP Pro. i am currently looking where I can get the codec. If you have a downloadlink please post it.

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#36300400023 02/05/2008 04:10:39 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Thank you all for your help! Solution for me was to install the Vista Codec Pack, now it runns all fine.. somehow the K-Lite Codec Pack didn't do the job even fot the ffdshow video decoder vor wmv3 set to wmv9.

But anyway... now it runns fine and iI am glad. Again thanks for the help from all of you.

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#36300458481 05/23/2008 01:28:49 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Vista Codec Pack? Where'd this pop out of now? O.o I can't find it and I have the same problem on WinXP :s

#36300458575 05/23/2008 07:34:56 Re:Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

Here is a link to the Vista (and XP at the bottom of the page) codec pack:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download...dec_package.htm