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06-12-2007 02:15 PM

the fall guy

Me again!

I finally found the cause for the playback-problems:
After trying zillions of stupid things I noticed by chance that the replay files use 24bit colors. After changing the display color depth from 16 to 32 bit everything worked fine.

Shame upon me for being such a lamer, but maybe the dosbox guys should add that to the zmbv-readme. I had never thought of that for all the old games use an 8-bit palette anyway...

05-12-2007 07:01 PM

the fall guy

Many thanx for the quick response midget and horseman, but somehow the myriads of avi-players I downloaded (including the ones you mentioned) either don't work or don't even install properly on my sh*** computer :mad:

But I found a workaround that might help others with similar problems: I use the rad video tools to convert the replays to .smk or .bik files and can finally have a look at them...

05-12-2007 05:29 PM

Mighty Midget

For AVI, you can use VLC, which is free and fairly uncomplicated. I use that to watch AVI movies and it works like a charm. You'll still need codecs though. No way around that as far as I know. If you don't have the codec it doesn't matter what player you use.

There are some codec packs out there with busloads of codecs in one.

05-12-2007 05:23 PM

The Fifth Horseman

Quote:

What programs do you use to replay the .avi-files?

Media Player Classic.

05-12-2007 05:16 PM

the fall guy

What programs do you use to replay the .avi-files?

I tried Irfan View but it always quits with an error message.
If you know a good, simple and reliable one please let me know.

(and YES, I did properly install the codec that came with dosbox 0.72)

04-12-2007 06:30 AM

Data

a year is a long time in codec land
I don't know when it was included though.

03-12-2007 11:28 PM

azuritereaction

Quote:

Originally Posted by Data

i think that the zmbv codec is present in ffmpeg which provides most codecs to mplayer.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html
first line

unless it's some recent version, i got the ffmpeg pack a year ago and still have it, but it didn't have it in there

03-12-2007 10:37 AM

Data

i think that the zmbv codec is present in ffmpeg which provides most codecs to mplayer.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html
first line

03-12-2007 10:31 AM

azuritereaction

Yup, that worked fine.

What puzzled me is that it didn't even work in MPlayer; usually ANYTHING that won't work in WMV or VLC or anything else will work in Mplayer, and if it doesn't, it crashes;

However, this time it actually said "no video detected" and just played the audio on the clip until I installed the new codec that you were talking about; weird stuff.

03-12-2007 06:55 AM

The Fifth Horseman

Quote:

Originally Posted by azuritereaction

So I went into the DOSbox readme after hearing that it can record video (i've got v .72), and sure enough, in the help file, it says ctrl+alt+F5 will record a movie and sound of the game.

So I go into my games and try it; every time, it comes up with nothing but an audio file in .avi format.

I've ran it through MPlayer, through VLC player, through Adobe After Effects, through Virtual Dub, and a ton of other things, and every time, it comes up saying "cannot read video" and it only reads audio; i've got a TON of codec packs on my computer too, so it's not like i'd be missing basic codecs...

Anyone know why it's only recording audio or of any way to fix this?

Install the ZMBV video codec included with your DOSBox installation and the videos will play correctly. You can then use something like VirtualDub to re-encode them to a different format, if you want.

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