Windows Media Player 10

[Jedimark]

Just a heads up... installed Windows Media Player 10 today and now FFVII movies won't play in-game (although they do play in WMP). Will look into this...

[Neo Bahamut]

That's kinda weird, have you recently installed any codecs or anything...... nah, that don't make much sence....... must be down to user error  

[Aaron]

Did you try installing the upside-down movie patch?  Movies worked fine after I did that, but I got this error after the opening Eidos movie:



Great.  Not sure if that's just a general FF7 problem or a problem with WMP10 (since I just now installed FF7 to check it after reading this, and that looks like a null pointer problem heh ), but I think I'll just stick to ePSXe for now :-/

[Caddberry]

Gah! LoL

Is this available after you grab SP2?

I'm not touching SP2 until i can back up EVERYTHING on my hds.. Then I will probably fresh install again..

[Aaron]

It's available here. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx

Afaik, it works on any version of Windows XP.  However, I think it only shows up in Add/Remove Programs with SP2 (with the "Show Updates" box checked)... otherwise, you have to System Restore to get rid of it.

I did a full format on my main computer when installing SP2, but all of the other computers at my house (4 of them I guess) and many computers at work took the upgrade with no problems.

[Neo Bahamut]

Yeah, I didn't have any programs with sp2 and it actually made stuff work better, which was really really surprising...

[EvilMike]

I have SP2 and downloaded the chocobo and movie patch, has been working fine now (until it fooked up when starting the snowboard thing, but just put it in Win98/Me compatability mode and it worked)

[Jedimark]

Did you try installing the upside-down movie patch?

Just installed it and it seems to have reolved this issue with WMP10. I didn't think installing WMP10 however would have had any effect on the TrueMotion codec... :isee: Ah well... it works.