New Game Crash: Codec Required

[Klaid Liadon]

Installed FF7, aali 0.7.1 and that's what happens

any solutions?

[Kudistos Megistos]

That could be anything.

Have you installed the 1.02 patch?

Did you do any messing around with the game after you installed it?

[Klaid Liadon]

It's a codec problem, the game works without aali custom driver.

[Hellbringer616]

update to v1.02 if you haven't already, set up aali's driver. run his regfile(vista64 if you are using Vista x64 instead of 32bit). and you should be good to go.

If you've never opened FF7, open it up so the config opens, then run aali's reg file.

[titeguy3]

I've been starting to see that error message more and more often as of late. Personally, I've only ever experienced it on two occasions: 1) at the start of a battle due to an AI script with errors in it and 2) after messing with meteor without knowing what I was doing.

I don't know why this would happen without any mods installed, though...

[Aali]

Maybe you should do what it says? Maybe that will make this less of a guessing game?

[Klaid Liadon]

The game works in window mode, i'm using cccp and truemotion in ffdshow is disabled

[Kranmer]

i believe Aali's Driver uses FFMPEG so it doesnt require codecs (if i am wrong feel free to correct me) So i am nearly 100% sure it isnt a codec problem. (FFMPEG is like a built in player that also has its own built in codecs so it doesnt use external codecs).
You should do like Aali said above and post the the APP.LOG here (or the last few lines atleast) and that should tell you what is wrong and if that doesnt help you should post the crash dump for Aali to look at.

[Klaid Liadon]

app.log

INFO: Auto-detected version: FF7 1.02 US English
INFO: FFMpeg movie player plugin loaded
INFO: FFMpeg version SVN-r19334, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
INFO: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 6600/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW! 2.1.2
INFO: OpenGL 2.0 support detected
INFO: Found swap_control extension
INFO: Original resolution 640x480, window size 960x720, output resolution 960x720, internal resolution 1280x960
INFO: FBO extension detected, using fast scaling/postprocessing path
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
INITIALIZING MIDI...
selecting device 0:Sint. SW Microsoft GS Wavetable, mid=1, pid=102,
midi data type: GENERAL MIDI
using midi data file: C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\midi\midi.lgp
midiOutGetVolume returned: ffffffff
MIDI INITIALIZED
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
set music volume: 127
MIDI set master volume: 100
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\Data\Movies\eidoslogo.avi; truemotion2/pcm_u8 320x240, 15.000000 FPS, duration: 10.133333, frames: 152
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
MIDI set volume trans: 127->0; step=60
MIDI stop - OK
MIDI stop - OK
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
MIDI set volume: 127
100% of 127 = 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
SET VOLUME 5: 127
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save00.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save01.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save02.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save03.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save04.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save05.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save06.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save07.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save08.ff7
ERROR: COULD NOT OPEN FILE C:\Programmi\Square Soft, Inc.\Final Fantasy VII\save/save09.ff7
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
MIDI stop - OK
ERROR: no video codec found
ERROR: unhandled exception

[Klaid Liadon]

Crash.dump
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PA2MKI9D

[Aali]

Now tell us what you did to make your movies unplayable.

[Klaid Liadon]

I installed cccp and disabled the truemotion in ffdshow.
The only thing that could make this possible it's a regedit change that i have done after installing windows to make the ntfs file system work better.
During the cccp install i saw that cccp had some problems so i found the regedit keys change to restore it.
ps: I noticed that with the standard driver the movies work

[Harruzame]

That's messed up man... I use to have problems regarding that. It say its missing a video codec or it can't use it somehow. One thing I did is I uninstall cccp first then FFDSHOW. ANd also unistalled FFVII. Then reinstall the FFDshow, disabled Truemotion. Installed Truemotion codec (DUCK), then installed cccp and the FFVII game. Somehow it worked out... You could try this if ya want...

[Kranmer]

to me it looks odd because eidoslogo.avi seems to be working on your system fine but whatever video your trying to play next should be using the same codec which means that their shouldnt be a problem with the truemotion codec.
so i would guess your using either reencoded movies or corrupt movies or maybe Aali's Driver is having problem with the original movies (the last one i doubt but to be honest i havent tested the original movies since 0.5 so i have no idea). you could try reencoding the movie that is suposed to play next into a different format (like Divx or Xvid) or you could try recopying it off the original CD to see if any of that helps but if it plays without Aali's Driver it proberly isnt a corrupt movie but i think its worth a try if your desperate. Also you could try a previous version of Aali's Driver to see if that fixes the problem (i myself use version 0.6.2 for its H264 support which isnt in the later versions) so you could try a older version and see what happens.

[Aali]

Corrupted media could cause this, if you are indeed just trying to use the original movies.

For the record, nothing you do to externals codecs, directshow or whatever you were doing will have any effect on the custom driver. It will never use any external files to play movies.

[Klaid Liadon]

Are the internal codecs that the driver uses localized by a short name like in win95 (ex. Progra~1)?
I'll try to format and not apply any windows patch, to see i something changes.

[Klaid Liadon]

Problem found and solved, the opening movie was the edited version with ps3 demo scenes (and maybe a not supported codec, divx i think). I restored the original file and now it works.
Can you make a list of codecs supported by aali's?

[Kranmer]

Lol i thought so. Nice to hear you got it working anyway. well its proberly faster to tell you the codecs that dont work then the ones that do (i have a list on my other PC after weeks of trying over 60 different video codecs and over 30 audio codecs) but basicly H264, Snow, DX are the video codecs that dont work (there are lots more but they are very obscure so i aint going into too much detail there are just the main ones) and also AAC and AC3 (although some AC3 codecs dont make it crash) audio makes it crash as well so stay away from that.
i recommend using Divx or Xvid or H263+ or WMV or Sorenson for video which all work fine and either MP3 or uncompressed PCM for audio.
Also a small note is that all H264 video doesnt work even if you use Apple's H264 or other variations. it is possible to get a X264 video to work if you lower the quantizer to 52 but the video quality isnt even worth talking about.