I believe the issue is related to the game engine / the built-in player used to playback movies, rather than with the movies themselves. The devs are aware and working on a fix.
Yep. I resize all the movies (except the old credits movie which, being 640x480, plays fine as is) to 480p (from 720p) and they work fine in the in-game player. On my system, at least, it has performance/stuttering issues playing back any video greater than 480p (even 576p has the issue) through the in-game player.
The drawback is that I'm watching the movies with the same scaling applied had they still been 720p, so they're 4/9ths the size they could be, I guess.
@Nukenin Any ffmpeg setting you would like to share for keeping the best quality? I did a blunt -f webm -vf scale=-1:480 and the result is just okay-ish.
It's about the same bitrate as the original so no worse in quality, I'd imagine. No better, of course, since you're only going to get as good as the input quality.
The intro.wbm and blackpits.wbm (Black Pits intro) are both located in Data\00766\lang\en_US\movies; presumably so that localized versions can be made available.
@Nukenin Better indeed! Thanks a bunch for the original idea: I can now rest in Inns without cringing at the shrieking soundtrack! And I'm now looking forward to enter Baldur's Gate!
In the into movie as well as "cut-scene" movies(sleeping at inn, dungeon....those kinds). The sound always pops for me, any idea how to fix it? I tried posting in the bugs section with no response.....
smal sized encoded videos is only solution now try this: http://www.mediafire.com/?8ycm283n8y85p3m 1- replace all files inside movies folder to: "C:\Program Files\Beamdog\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\movies"
3- if u wwant old opening video rename old_intro.wbm to intro.wbm and do 2.... *** black pit video : http://www.mediafire.com/?t5sc97ccsvd8vk2 NOTES: This is smaller sized encoded videos of bgee For old computer and glichy sound problems.
Testing on a different system. Vista 32 bit, AMD HD4200 graphics, and Realtek audio. I am getting stuttering on the movies only. It's pretty bad.
My system at home has Realtek audio with very old drivers circa 2008 and does not have any issues with audio playback at all, so I don't think it's a driver issue. On this system I went as far as removing the Realtek driver, rolling back to the built in Vista driver and the audio during movies still stutters.
Hey, can someone resize the Black PIts video? Please and THANK YOU!!!
smal sized encoded videos is only solution now try this: http://www.mediafire.com/?8ycm283n8y85p3m 1- replace all files inside movies folder to: "C:\Program Files\Beamdog\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\movies"
3- if u wwant old opening video rename old_intro.wbm to intro.wbm and do 2.... *** black pit video : http://www.mediafire.com/?t5sc97ccsvd8vk2 NOTES: This is smaller sized encoded videos of bgee For old computer and glichy sound problems.
@agentchaos same here. However it seems to me that the developers tried something as ffmpeg -f webm fails to convert the movies after the v1.0.2012 patch. It is "unable to find a suitable output format".
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The drawback is that I'm watching the movies with the same scaling applied had they still been 720p, so they're 4/9ths the size they could be, I guess.
-codec:v libvpx -quality good -cpu-used 0 -b:v 2000k -qmin 10 -qmax 42 -maxrate 2000k -bufsize 4000k -threads 4 -vf scale=-1:480 -codec:a libvorbis -b:a 128k -f webm
It's about the same bitrate as the original so no worse in quality, I'd imagine. No better, of course, since you're only going to get as good as the input quality.
The intro.wbm and blackpits.wbm (Black Pits intro) are both located in Data\00766\lang\en_US\movies; presumably so that localized versions can be made available.
What else would be relevant?
1- replace all files inside movies folder to:
"C:\Program Files\Beamdog\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\movies"
2- replace intro.wbm inside intro folder to:
"C:\Program Files\Beamdog\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\lang\en_US\movies"
3- if u wwant old opening video rename old_intro.wbm to intro.wbm and
do 2....
*** black pit video : http://www.mediafire.com/?t5sc97ccsvd8vk2
NOTES: This is smaller sized encoded videos of bgee
For old computer and glichy sound problems.
And you get a like because your profile pic is awesome.
Keep an eye to the new year for more issue solving and debugging!
My system at home has Realtek audio with very old drivers circa 2008 and does not have any issues with audio playback at all, so I don't think it's a driver issue. On this system I went as far as removing the Realtek driver, rolling back to the built in Vista driver and the audio during movies still stutters.
1- replace all files inside movies folder to:
"C:\Program Files\Beamdog\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\movies"
2- replace intro.wbm inside intro folder to:
"C:\Program Files\Beamdog\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\lang\en_US\movies"
3- if u wwant old opening video rename old_intro.wbm to intro.wbm and
do 2....
*** black pit video : http://www.mediafire.com/?t5sc97ccsvd8vk2
NOTES: This is smaller sized encoded videos of bgee
For old computer and glichy sound problems.
Oh dear...