Can't watch any cinematic with the player ingame

**SwiftShadow** · 02/04/2008 05:13:32

Hi,

for some reson i can't see the cinematics ingame. I hear teh sound but the player stays just black. Anyone experiencing the same or has any ideas?

**Gerik** · 02/04/2008 05:16:47

Yeah, you have to wait like a half an hour or something now for them to work (well for me atleast). Here's a link to download them and watch them: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=10400152477

Enjoy

**SwiftShadow**

Hmm.. something strange is going on here even when i download teh cinematics or try to watch them on the site I just get black screen and sound. Anyone got any ideas for that?

**Shadow-SK** · 02/04/2008 08:13:13

Do you have Windows Media Player 10 11 installed?

EDIT: -_-

**SwiftShadow**

I have MediaPlayer 11 installed.

**Shadow-SK**

SwiftShadow wrote:

I have MediaPlayer 11 installed.

Hah, that's what I get for posting that early. Sorry, I meant 11. Hmm...that's weird since they're in WMV format...

**XXT**

Could be a missing or corrupted file. Did you full system check the game?

**UniToxic**

XXT wrote:

Could be a missing or corrupted file. Did you full system check the game?

Even if he downloads them and views them out of the game, he still gets no video, meaning it isn't a problem with the game files.

A black screen, but still being able to hear audio, suggest a problem with a video codec, may have become corrupted if you recently installed other media playback software.

I assume that you can not watch video playback of anything you try and play in WindowsMediaPlayer? (Have you been able to before? and it recently stopped for no apparent reason?) If so this can usually be solved by a system rollback to the last time you knew you was able to watch video media in WMP. Sometimes Registry entries go 'missing' and can cause such problems, and the rollback can sometimes rectify them, however it is not 100%

**9mmfu**

I ran the cinematics directly of my HD and from the website, they appear to be working.

**SwiftShadow**

I can play anything exept the Matrix videos, thats the wired thing. I#LL try the rollback I think but my system si pritty new so tehre isn't much to roll back.

**CPT_Starschwar**

If all else fails, just search youtube.

**phi**

The cinematics use plain-old WMV3 video codec (and WMA v2 for audio).

Go to this Microsoft page: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi...p;qstechnology=
Set the download to Codecs Installation Packages
Set the version to For Windows Media Player 7.1 or later

Download the codec package and install it.
If that doesn't fix it, reinstall your video drivers.

If that still doesn't fix it post back and we'll go from there.

**SwiftShadow**

Hi thx for the help, I have a problem to install the codec becaus the one you said I should install says it won't install on my system because ist for Win 98, Win ME and Win 2000. My system is Win XP Pro. i am currently looking where I can get the codec. If you have a downloadlink please post it.

**SwiftShadow**

Thank you all for your help! Solution for me was to install the Vista Codec Pack, now it runns all fine.. somehow the K-Lite Codec Pack didn't do the job even fot the ffdshow video decoder vor wmv3 set to wmv9.

But anyway... now it runns fine and iI am glad. Again thanks for the help from all of you.

Kittenykat

Vista Codec Pack? Where'd this pop out of now? O.o I can't find it and I have the same problem on WinXP :s