Nothing during FMV's (blank screen, no sound, can play game but without movies)

[Fenrir]

I had this problem and tried every (literally EVERY) solution for this available on the interweb.  I found that the solution for the problem did not lie in codecs, not in patches, and not in any setting changes.  The solution that fixed my problem with the FMV's was with a simple re-installation of the YAMAHA SoftSynthesizer S-YXG70.  Thats it!!! Thats all I had to do!  And just to make it clear, after each and every solution applied I tried to view the fmv's through the game, through windows media player (current version 11), via constant switch between HDD and CD through regedit all the while triple checking the directory paths and re-installing the game(over and over and over and over and....).  Then as i was about to give up, I decided to not re-install the game, not directshow, and not direct x(supplied version and current version), but YAMAHA SoftSynthesizer S-YXG70.  I made sure it wasn't working before I re-installed it, so after I knew that that could be the only possible factor in the entirety of the ordeal that would solve this problem for me.

And...You're Welcome!

[dziugo]

That's odd Glad you worked it out.

[*:.Griever.:*]

It was rather helpful wasn't it?

I just have to say, it was also helpful on this thread..
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=2260.msg92215#new

And this one..
http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=4023.msg92210#msg92210

As I said in the other thread, I'm curious as to why one would copy and paste the exact same message three times, sure it's helpful and all, but why not just paste a link to this topic instead of posting the same message three times in seperate places?

[dziugo]

That's odd

[Fenrir]

goes to show you how many time this problem has been addressed and not solved.

[*:.Griever.:*]

That's an odd defence.

[Satoh]

Lol, Griev' aren't you sort of doing something similar by making that comment multiple times? (just pickin' don't take it as an insult or anything...)

[Fenrir]

Really? Is it really?  Well I suppose that's true since I didn't realize that I was being attacked.  ( smiley face )

[*:.Griever.:*]

You weren't being attacked

And yes, I just realised I'm doing the same thing, so apologies.

[Fenrir]

hey, no hard feelings we're all here to help, learn, and have fun right?  I just hope that those that already gave up will see one of my posts seeing as how they seemed to have gone through the same troubles i did.  I am, however, a little dissapointed that such an easy and obvious solution wasn't mentioned for them, though I suppose it would simply have been a matter of time before anyone in the same predicament would have discovered it too.