[Solved] Neverwinter Nights Movies

thom_raindog · 2011-03-07 21:34:21

Howdie folks,

I have just reinstalled my good old NWN games (NOT through AUR, that proved a major pain and didn't work, so good oldfashioned way: Copy loads of stuff from the disk...) and it works like a charm, maximum graphics settings and all

BUT: No movies. Now, I read up on that and just can't work it out. I have binkplayer already installed (from back when I tried the AUR package) and if I call a movie outside the game with binkplayer it plays just fine. But NWN itself won't, it just skipps right through them which I can tell by the brief change of desktop size.

Now, I checked nwmovies.log and this looks to me as if nwmovies is trying to use mplayer instead of the bink movies, which seems odd.

./nwmovies.pl AtariLogo >> nwmovies.log 2>&1
NOTICE: NWMovies.pl playing: AtariLogo: Mon Mar  7 22:09:41 2011
NOTICE: NWMovies: Executing: /usr/bin/mplayer -x 1280 -y 1024 -vo sdl -vm 
MPlayer SVN-r32792-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
161 audio & 351 video codecs
Usage:   mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename

Basic options: (complete list in the man page)
 -vo <drv>        select video output driver ('-vo help' for a list)
 -ao <drv>        select audio output driver ('-ao help' for a list)
 vcd://<trackno>  play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no mount)
 dvd://<titleno>  play DVD title from device instead of plain file
 -alang/-slang    select DVD audio/subtitle language (by 2-char country code)
 -ss <position>   seek to given (seconds or hh:mm:ss) position
 -nosound         do not play sound
 -fs              fullscreen playback (or -vm, -zoom, details in the man page)
 -x <x> -y <y>    set display resolution (for use with -vm or -zoom)
 -sub <file>      specify subtitle file to use (also see -subfps, -subdelay)
 -playlist <file> specify playlist file
 -vid x -aid y    select video (x) and audio (y) stream to play
 -fps x -srate y  change video (x fps) and audio (y Hz) rate
 -pp <quality>    enable postprocessing filter (details in the man page)
 -framedrop       enable frame dropping (for slow machines)

Basic keys: (complete list in the man page, also check input.conf)
 <-  or  ->       seek backward/forward 10 seconds
 down or up       seek backward/forward  1 minute
 pgdown or pgup   seek backward/forward 10 minutes
 < or >           step backward/forward in playlist.
.
.
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Binkplayer is there, right in the nwn folder. Any ideas?

Last edited by thom_raindog (2011-03-08 06:01:43)

ngoonee · 2011-03-08 00:53:58

I remember getting it to work, but that was more than a year back, so no useful information to add. As I recall the script does some checking to figure out what to run, you may want to play with the script itself (the movie one).

thom_raindog · 2011-03-08 06:01:19

I am not great at tweaking scripts, but this one seems to try and play it easy for me. There is this part here:

# Simple way to disable a specific movie player.
# Uncomment the player you want to disable.

$mplayer = "";
$plaympeg = "";
# $binkplayer = "";

and as you can see I took the liberty to uncomment everything BUT bink, and now it does not find ANY player:

./nwmovies.pl AtariLogo >> nwmovies.log 2>&1
NOTICE: NWMovies.pl playing: AtariLogo: Tue Mar  8 06:56:23 2011
ERROR: No movie player located, not playing anything.

I DO now have the "Movies" button in the game, so that could be considered one step in the right direction, but it does not necessarily make me happy...

binkplayer is in /usr/bin and I symlinked it the games directory... DOH! Nevermind. nwmovies.pl is looking for "./BinkPlayer" where binkplayer is named "./binkplayer" by default. That's it, solved. Thanks!

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#1 2011-03-07 21:34:21

[Solved] Neverwinter Nights Movies

#2 2011-03-08 00:53:58

Re: [Solved] Neverwinter Nights Movies

#3 2011-03-08 06:01:19

Re: [Solved] Neverwinter Nights Movies

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