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TimeI read the section about what to do here. Uninstalling LAV Filters makes the videos play, and installing it makes them disappear. I've tried disabling all of the formats for the LAV splitter, audio, and video configurations, yet they continue not to play.
The reason i'm writing this is that i am very curious as to what exactly about the LAVF pack is giving Darksiders trouble, and whether there's any way to work around it without uninstalling it.
96.40.253.184 07:32, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
I don't have this game to test but you could try the K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool to see if it can detect the problem and overrule the LAV Filters for the format Darksiders relies on.
Failing that another option would be to use use a third-party player that has the LAV Filters built in (e.g. MPC-HC); this way you can access files in those formats without having it affecting the system codecs.
i had a similar problem with gta: san andreas
check one of these solution http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas#Intro_movies_not_showing
Without success, i tried these things:
K-Lite Codec Tweak Tool:
- used "fixes" at the top (then restored a backup i made beforehand)
- disabled all the LAV and madVR filters
From the San Andreas suggestions:
- disabled the compositor
- lav filters doesn't come with ffdshow and doesn't seem to have a way of ignoring specific processes like ffdshow does
- didn't try resetting codecs with DirectShow Filter Manager, since that would probably break the LAV Filters installation. i might as well just uninstall it.
... And now they've stopped playing even with LAV Filters uninstalled. Great. I can't even watch the videos outside the game because they have no voices.
... o_o and after reinstalling the codecs (because i figured there was no reason to keep it uninstalled if i wasn't going to play), and verifying the cache (which first runs this extra installer for the soundtrack and whatever, for which i picked "repair")... NOW THEY PLAY WITH THE CODECS INSTALLED.
glad you solved windows is really cryptic on codecs priorities.. if you don't think it was only a problem of your, i invite you adding the fix into the game (if you have understand what helped)
I wish i could, but i really have no idea why it's different now. All i can say is that it decided at some point to stop playing videos when LAV Filters is not installed, and then after i installed them and ran a Steam cache verification, it started playing videos while LAV Filters is installed.
I might have clicked the DirectShow Filter Manager's "Restore standard DirectX codecs" button at some point. I don't remember clearly. If i did, then it was with LAVF installed. It didn't help. Then i uninstalled LAVF and they still weren't working. Then i installed LAVF again and did the verification and repair install of the extras, and they started working. That may not be exactly what happened, and of course, i can't try it again now.
