No intro movie in-game :( [Solved]

[Pantomime]

Since watching the game's trailers and all, I'd been looking forward to properly watching the intro movie in-game; the funny one about being caught in a bathtub and paparazzi scandal etc. But after I press "Enter" at the start screen, then select "New Game", after a quick loading screen the game brings me directly to the first play screen where I start collecting stuff already. Did anyone else experience this??

Tried starting New Game another couple times and always got the same result. What I worry about is that I miss all future story videos as well :(

[Xelos]

Was looking all over internet how to fix this problem and you helped, thanks Olivier your an amazing person :D

[Nydus]

well that kinda sucks.

i mean i have those codecs for a reason oO

and now another game comes around the corner which cant play Vids with my codecs...

some more insight would be nice. since the stuff i watch is never wmv i couldnt care less if it is ok to just disable some codecs for wmv. but that did not help *sigh*

will try to find a workaround -.-

edit:

its NOT the LAV Splitter. Installed Codecpack without it and still no videos.
Would be nice to know more :/

[solamon77]

@Nydus If you installed the codec pack without the LAV Splitter then you didn't follow OlivierJT's instructions. Because he never recomends that. Just do what he has listed and it will work. It has worked for everyone that has tried it so far.

[Nydus]

yeah sorry i was a bit unclear.

i use Sharks007 codecs pack. cause this pack enables the WMP to list MKV files in his library and so on. i will search for those directshow filters.

[Blub]

I have a similar issue : no intro, and the game is strangely quiet during finishing moves. I have WMP 11.0.5721.5260, as well as mega and 64 packs from K-lite.
If I remove the LAV video decoder from the enabled filters, the video in the steam directory won't play in media player classic.
And with or without codecs, the game jump straight to the "automatic save" splashscreen.

Frankly I have no idea how to "follow the steps" given before, since Olivier didn't tell us to disable any filters, he just explains how he removed some glitchy something that I don't have on my Codec Tweak Tool. Then some other peoples tells that they disabled the LAV and that it fixed the video for them.

I have 3 entries in the "video" section : ffdshow, LAV and On2 VP7. In the x64 section, I have only ffdshow and LAV. No filters are disabled.

[OlivierJT]

Hello there,
Sorry if there are any confusions, I ustalled the K lite codec following some user problems, the way I solved it for me was to use the "codec tweek tool"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\Tools\CodecTweakTool.exe"

... and try a few settings, I noticed that when disabling LAV, the problems were gone.
I am not an expert on codec nor a coder ( a hardware builder yes), so I cannot explain the why and how it works.
I can only say : this is what I did.
For sure on other codec pack there are probably to "codec tweak tool", so i cannot help you on how to tweak your other codec packs.

The way I fix things are by eliminations.
try to uninstall your codec packs, and see if that works.
If it does not, then it is not about your CPks...
If it is well... you have tweaks to make...

Beyond that I cannot help you more, I am around if you have questions, but there are so many software factors on so many kind of pc...

As a reference here is what I have :
using the "codec tweak tool" that came with K lite.


Codec and Filter management :
DirectShow (x86)
DIRECTSHOW FILTERS FROM THE K-LITE CODEC PACK (yeah they wrote it in caps)
_Video
___Enabled : ffdshow
_Audio
___MadFLAC
___LAV audio decoder
___AAC...
___ALAC...
___M4A...
___OptimFrog...
___TAK...
___ Monkey...

_Source
___Matroska...
___LAV spliter
___AC3
_Misc
___Haali...
___MadVR
___DirectVob..

DISABLED FILTERS
_Video
___LAV video decoder
___On2
_Audio
___LAV audio decoder
___Tracker decoder...
_Source
___AVI Splitter
___MP4 Splitter
___MPEG-TS

DIRECTSHOW FILTERS FROM WINDOWS
Disabled
___Microsoft G.711
___IVF Source...

DIRECTSHOW FILTERS FROM OTHER PRODUCTS
Disabled : DivX MPEG-4
_________DIVX H.264

DirectShow (x64)
Enabled :
_Video:
___ffdshow
_Audio:
___matroska
___LAV
___AC3
_Miscellaneous:
___DirectVob...

DISABLED FILTERS :
_video :
___LAV video dec...
_Audio :
___LAV Audio
_Source:
___AVI Splitter
___MP4
___MPEG

DIRECTSHOW FILTERS FROM OTHER PRODUCTS
enabled :
_video:
___Divx MPEG-4

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pfffff man this took a while... I whish i could screens..
Anyway, I hope it helps.
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I hope it does not mess up with some of your video playbacks.
Do this at your own risk (yeah its the disclaimer part...) ^_^

I reseted all my settings once more to try it for you guys :
After the reset : Video where not playing.
I disabled in the video settings of the codec tweak tool : LAV video and now it works.
The list form before is what I have now, working.
All my personal video are working normally.
(on Nvidia Card)

Good luck guys.

(sorry about the _ the post didn't took my "space bar" formatting)

Ha one last thing for "blub" :
In all case (with Klite installed or not, and with tweek settings the original video in the game folder ALWAYS works)
(with WMP and WMPClassics)
So Blub : if the video doesn't play at all, your problem lies somewhere else...

[Nydus]

i found a fix for Shark007 codec pack too.

just install ur codecpacks and DONT use the recommended settings. without those the ingame movie will work and u still can watch MKV and let them show up in WMP :)

(tested on Win8 64bit)

[Fei]

Hi i wanna ask one thing. I've bought the DLC. Can i know how to make new levels? They aren't on the main menu. please someone explain me that.

[OlivierJT]

Krypt0nit3, you should make a new post, this post is not about DLC, you should do it because it may also help other users.
(I don't have the DLC, so i cannot help you)

[Wroth]

I know this is an old post but it helped me find another way to solve the issue with this game and k-lite (yes, the issue is still there) so maybe it could help someone else.

As someone mentioned the videos use VC-1 for video so in tweak tool go to "Preferred decoders" scroll down and change VC-1 to microsoft. Game videos are back and videos still play fine in Zoom Player.