Solved Movies not playing
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Is there any surefire way to get the campaign and newsclips movies to play? I’ve tried the various google, etc. methods; mega pack, etc.
Be nice to be able to have them play. -
@MnMailman the codecs are supposed to be installed with BMS.
To be honest, I have disabled all video feedback but I remember it was working though during testing…
Are you able to play them individually from video folder?
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Hi Max;
Yes, the movies play individually. This is on a Windows 11 pc. -
Then I have no clue…
I think this will land far in the bug queue as we don’t have windows 11 in the team…
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@MnMailman are you sure you haven’t selected -nomovie with command line edit or selecting it with the Alternative Launcher?
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They do work in Windows 11 for me at least and I don’t play the startup movie.
I have had the situation described before on the same hardware maybe before I upgraded from 10 but cant remember how I got around it.
Codecs on the system might be the reason why
I have this codec in my apps list and I really don’t know why - hopefully not a virus:
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@Snake122 No, neither one of those are in force, but thanks.
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@MaxWaldorf No problem, thanks for the reply.
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@MnMailman
While this won’t be a huge help, I can tell you it’s not a Win 11 thing. I’m running Win11 and they play just fine for me. And this is on a pretty fresh PC so very little other than BMS installed on it. -
Got them working. For testing to see if the videos are playing, I have the “play intro movie” option checked in alternative launcher.
On a hunch, I decided to bypass it and use the launcher in the install folder instead. Upon starting the configuration.exe in the install folder, the “play intro movie” option was unchecked even though it was checked in the AL.
I also checked the “play videos” option in the install’s config.exe and now all videos play as they should. Also, even though the option is now checked in both the install path and AL, the movies still don’t play when launching via AL. So their not playing appears to be AL related for me anyway.
I don’t really have any problems programming my hotas in BMS so maybe I’ll just use BMS’s launcher vs AL anyway. -
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@Migbuster said in Movies not playing:
Codecs on the system might be the reason why
Yes pretty sure you need correct codecs before the movies play but can be a bit annoying when alerts go off while you’re in 2D. I think I installed the codecs several BMS versions back and they’ve always worked since.
If you do a search on the old BMS forums there’s a thread with a link to the codecs.
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@Kavelenko
This is the thread you mentioned:
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?23687-Videos-not-playing-in-BMS-4-33This worked for me perfectly.