How do I play the movies manually?

[Thinzad]

What is the trick to playing the movie files manually? They appear to be Quicktime AVI files - but when I try to play them I get audio but no video. Everything seems to work properly when played by the games (Thief Gold & Thief II on a Win XP system with dual core Pentium), just not by hand. Thank you.

[Peter Smith]

I think they look like quicktime to you only because you have quicktime associated with AVI files. My AVI's come up in Windows Media player. In any case you need the right codec to play them. I think the file header points to the codec. If you don't have the right one installed it will not play properly. The standard codec for Thief is the Indeo codec version 5. The installer is iv5setup.exe, which can be found on the internet. You can see if you have it installed in Control Panel | Add Remove Probrams. If Indeo is installed and the file does not play by double clicking on it, then I might suggest one of two things:

Right click on the icon and "open with" Windows Media Player.

Look in the Stickies for a fix to movies. To repeat:

5. Movies. Register the Indeo codecs so movies play reliably. In rare cases this must be repeated before each execution. This can be done using a BAT file containing a "regsvr32" command as described in the link below or using DDFIX (see below).
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75031#movies

Post back and let us know what, if anything, worked.

[Thinzad]

I think they look like quicktime to you only because you have quicktime associated with AVI files.

Post back and let us know what, if anything, worked.

Bingo, you nailed it: I had wrongly changed the association to Quicktime after the Windows Media Player couldn't play them properly. Running the Thief Gold IV5play did NOT do the trick, but since I had already downloaded the IV5setup linked in the "How to run T/T2 on modern computers" sticky, running that DID do the job. Thanks again.

With Thief III, T2 & Gold all working I'm one happy puppy. And with Thief 4 on the visible horizon, I must have died and gone to heaven.

[erikduop]

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