Help with FF7 not loading movie properly

[DarkestDream]

WOW, it been a long time i havent post here. i remember some of you. Not sure if you remember me. I was at World of Warcraft game and forgotten about FF. shame on me until i finally watched Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children on DVD. it amazing to watch, i really enjoy watching it. after i watched it. my brother and i want to play FF7 game again. I truly miss those groupie in action.

Anyway, back to my tech-related problem. I changed my Video card to nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000. I know FF7 have a huge problem with nVidia driver. When i loaded FF7, with all the patch (without Animevamp's patch) Choco patch, movie patch, and Config 1.2 patch. Im currently using Media Player Classic and never had a issue in the past with it. But since now, it does. When i loaded FF7, all im showing a black screen and got to Menu. it puzzling me that the movie is not showing it. so i decide to copied all Movie clip to my hard drive and edit the registry to tell the FF7 to use the hard drive for the movie. And still showing the same blank black screen. So im at loss here, i can load the game without a problem but rather to have a video in it. I use with and without FF7w program and it still not showing the movie. Im not sure if it my media player problem or Config's problem beacuse i saw nVidia TNT and Riva. But it not checked.

Any helps here? Im using Window Xp Pro with nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 with latest DirectX updates. I reallly want to play FF7 with the movie, so help me out here.

[NobodyImportant]

When you put the installation CD in, click "Install Movie Player".

[DarkestDream]

But the movie are based on .avi, my Media Player Classic and WMP should read them without a problem.

But im going to install Movie Player and see what happen

AMEND: Nope, it didnt work, it still not showing the movie, and the logo of Edios

[NobodyImportant]

Well, the .avi files the game uses are encoded with an outdated codec, which the "Install movie player" button installs. However, if thats not working for you, I'm out of ideas. I'm sure there's a solution, but I'm not super smart about video cards and Final Fantasy VII's video problems. The upside down movie patch might help.

[DarkestDream]

Well, the .avi files the game uses are encoded with an outdated codec, which the "Install movie player" button installs. However, if thats not working for you, I'm out of ideas. I'm sure there's a solution, but I'm not super smart about video cards and Final Fantasy VII's video problems. The upside down movie patch might help.

i already said i did the upside down movie patch. i suspected it might be the codec that not working well for old .avi. anyone have those outdated codec i can use for my ff7?

[DarkestDream]

It seem that my computer not even bother to load the media file. i was looking at my CD activity light, it not even blinking, i try to feel it but nothing. it just dont want to load any media file.

[dziugo]

You can try uninstalling any other codecs before installing the one needed (you can install them later).

dziugo

[Izban]

i found that the k-lite codec pack fixes almost all codec problems and it even comes with mpc

[Sad Jari]

And I think that every codec pack author should be boiled over a slow fire, for a very long time.

Want to install loads of outdated codecs? Try a codec pack!

Want to screw up your system? Try a codec pack!

Frankly, they shouldn't be tried at all, but at least leave it as a last resort, if you really want to try them.

[Covarr]

I dunno, ffdshow is a pretty good pack.

[Sad Jari]

You are right about one thing; it's good. Very good.

It's not a pack, though.

[Wuz]

If you have used k-lite codec pack or something similiar which includes FFDShow see how to disable other codecs from decoding the True Motion avi files in my post in this thread here:
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=4213.msg70276#msg70276

before you try that though you could try this updated codec file (if you hav'nt already)
http://members.westnet.com.au/bcrouch/TM20DEC.ax

you need to put it in "C:\WINDOWS\system32" (backup the existing file first)

Note: This file is usless if ffdshow is still decoding the avi files so check both things.

[DarkestDream]

Wuz, i went to get that file and put it on my system32, then load FF7.exe, still no good, it not showing any movie. so i went to ffdshow but where i disable it? i cant find  it



that all i got on it.

[Wuz]

if true motion isnt in the list it should be fine.
and if that file didnt fix the problem i'm out of ideas sorry...

[DCS78]

I think the problem is outdated DirectX files called DirectMedia. PM me if you still need help and I will see about getting the files to you.

[DarkestDream]

I think the problem is outdated DirectX files called DirectMedia. PM me if you still need help and I will see about getting the files to you.

Where is that?