| In case of Zork adventure, break glass! |
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Longcat
Joined: 23 Sep 2006
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"ariblk.ttf" is not Arial, right?
Some variants of these fonts are not available (e.g. Century Gothic only has a regular version, not bold or italic), which is why the code that detects font availability won't work properly with these fonts - this is the comment that eriktorbjorn is referring to. I'll check the font detection code so that it works properly with the Windows fonts.
Yeah, "ariblk.ttf" is(as eriktorbjørn pointed out) Arial Black and is listed as being part of the Arial font family in microsofts databases. The fonts listed are all complete families acoording to this:http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx
Thanks for looking into this. It would be great if the datafiles listing could be updated with a list of required Windows fonts and their version.
And being able to put the files in a folder inside the game archive.
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Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:12 pm |
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md5
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Originally posted by Longcat
Thanks for looking into this. It would be great if the datafiles listing could be updated with a list of required Windows fonts and their version.
And being able to put the files in a folder inside the game archive.
Detection of Windows fonts has been fixed, try the next daily build. You can already put the fonts inside the game folder, but putting them in ScummVM's extras folder makes them available to all games that would need them...
In any case, Liberation fonts look best atm
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Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:47 am |
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sndwv
Joined: 25 Mar 2013
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Originally posted by md5
Yes, it is, although the hires MPEG2 videos aren't supported, only the lowres AVI videos are supported
Edit: In particular, the MPEG2 videos themselves are supported, but the AC3 audio that they use isn't
Just found a DVD version of ZGI (Gateway OEM version) and followed the instructions from the 'datafiles' page. Should I currently be able to 'enable' the .vob movies (but without sound) or not at all? I'm double-checking because the instructions specifically mention to copy ./eng_mpeg over.
The .vobs play just fine (both video & audio) in my W7x64 WMP, but I might have a software AC3 decoder and/or hardware support?
By the way, what is the ./engmpegc dir (and inquisc.zix) for? It appears to have slightly smaller versions (and less files) than the the ./eng_mpeg dir.
edit: what I'm asking is: if the .vobs should work, where should I be able to see them? The 'Propaganda on Parade' video is already not the .vob version.
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Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:46 pm |
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eriktorbjorn
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Originally posted by sndwv
Should I currently be able to 'enable' the .vob movies (but without sound) or not at all?
No, those lines in the game engine have been commented out.
There have been some experiments getting the audio to work, but last time I checked it would get noticeably out of sync with the video after a little bit.
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Wed Dec 09, 2015 5:26 am |
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sndwv
Joined: 25 Mar 2013
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Originally posted by eriktorbjorn
some experiments getting the audio to work, but last time I checked it would get noticeably out of sync with the video after a little bit.
Thanks! Would be fun to have a look. Is there a compiled version of that branch out there, or would I need to compile it myself (never done that before)?
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Wed Dec 09, 2015 10:36 am |
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eriktorbjorn
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Originally posted by sndwv
Is there a compiled version of that branch out there, or would I need to compile it myself (never done that before)?
Probably the latter. (Compiling under Linux should be pretty simple. I don't know about other operating systems.)
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Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:45 pm |
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Trelane
Joined: 20 Mar 2016
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Is there any word yet on how close we are to getting DVD video support in Zork: Grand Inquisitor? The DVD video is a huge improvement over the CD version, and most people (including me) never had access to it when it came out.
Although the DVD version does run on modern machines, the view doesn't scroll properly, making the game very irritating to play. Sadly, the scrolling is fine under ScummVM but the DVD video isn't.
It's great to have ScummVM support for the game though. I can't wait to see a fully-working solution.
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Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:12 am |
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eriktorbjorn
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Originally posted by Trelane
Is there any word yet on how close we are to getting DVD video support in Zork: Grand Inquisitor? The DVD video is a huge improvement over the CD version, and most people (including me) never had access to it when it came out.
Hard to say. There is already support (disabled) for playing the hi-res videos without sound, and there does exist an open-source library for decoding the sound. But while there is an attempt at using this, the last time I tried it the videos would play at slightly the wrong speed, so the sound would get pretty badly out of sync towards the end of the longer ones.
Right now, it seems to be stalled unfortunately.
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Mon Mar 21, 2016 10:08 pm |
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HappehLemons
Joined: 11 Sep 2010
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Originally posted by eriktorbjorn
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Originally posted by Trelane
Is there any word yet on how close we are to getting DVD video support in Zork: Grand Inquisitor? The DVD video is a huge improvement over the CD version, and most people (including me) never had access to it when it came out.
Hard to say. There is already support (disabled) for playing the hi-res videos without sound, and there does exist an open-source library for decoding the sound. But while there is an attempt at using this, the last time I tried it the videos would play at slightly the wrong speed, so the sound would get pretty badly out of sync towards the end of the longer ones.
Right now, it seems to be stalled unfortunately.
Ah what a bummer! Well thanks for the hard work guys anyway. Hopefully one day we'll be able to play the game in full dvd glory!
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Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:29 pm |
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jakewalsh
Joined: 10 Feb 2017
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In case of Zork adventure, break glass!
Just a thought if it hasn't been tried already, would using DVDExpress help get ZGI DVD Version running properly on Win7 and later?
I remember a few years ago I managed to get the DVD and Hi-res videos running perfectly on Windows XP by first installing DVDExpress.
There may be legal complications maybe now, as I'm not sure who owns it anymore. It might have been Mediamatics?
I suppose another avenue might be installing XP Mode to run it under XP, but I haven't tried that yet.
Good luck!
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