Any problems people have encountered using these vids have come down to being a user error, not a problem with the vids or the os.
E.X.A.C.T.L.Y! Well said. That's what I was trying to say all along.
They could have easily done all the original vids with a more universal codec and format but they wanted to protect there property.
I'm afraid you are apparently wrong becase:
1. The game is released in 1995, when True Motion 2 (and perhaps Cinepak) was the only viable option. MPEG-1 and Indeo were too computationally heavy back then, especially when it came to rendering 3D images on top of it!
2. A
Video For Windows decoder for True Motion 2 is included right on the game CD. By installing FF7 on your computer, your Media Player will be able to decode the movies. If they wanted to employ cryptography as a mean of protection their property, they'd have kept their video format in escrow, only accessible to game's engine.
There is no need to convert vids to use TM2.0.
This one the easier way but has too many drawback and consequences to suffer, not in regard to FF7, but to your other uses of a computer.
Yes, you are BOTH right!
Anyone with a good Codec pack like K-Lite should be able to play all these vids without problems. I also suggest always using Aali's custom driver(since everything is allready included).
Yes. I'd like to stress that if anyone's video playback is promblematic he or she shouldn't blame it on Aali's driver. It is not involved in decoding. (Perhaps involved in splitting, muxing or rendering but not decoding.)