Emulator

Oh sorry i tried to make a good report and somehow miss that. Yeah, i'm using X64
builds, but i get the same results on x86 builds

Thanks for the answers

And thank you Kronox.i, for making the report about it. I am also another user that
experiences the same problem with these .h4m movie files, which even when played with
gcube will not play them, it only crashes before starting(Bloody Roar: PF).

Thank you dolphin team for your consideration and good luck :)

Hey guys, I just wanted to know if you are still able to find the time to check out
that h4m playback bug in dolphin, please?

Weirdly enough, I see a green screen on both JIT and interpreter in Luigi's Mansion's
Pikmin trailer... Also, I disabled optimize quantizers.

Would that mean that h4m playback is starting to work or something else?

It doesn't work for me at all, so I don't know.

I have made a GCM from some unpacked TGC that had a .h4m file inside. I hear sound
but I only see a black screen, then the audio freezes after 3 seconds.

Indeed, the main effect of the absence of .h4m playback is the black screen that has
continuous fps but nothing is happening.

How do I unpack a tgc file?

You need to convert it to a GCM, then you can open it up in your favorite tool. :)

All you need to do is drag and drop the tgc file onto this cmd program:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/38216/tgctogcm.exe

Have fun.

Has there been any fix to the h4m support lately, because Bloody Roar primal fury
still doesn't work without renaming the movie folder in the iso. Please look in this
as soon as possible.:)

I bet it works, its just that graphics part is not showing, and the sound dying
probably due to the buggy DSP.

Ok, that may be true, but have you tested any games that use .h4m playback and still
works?

I tested a GCM that only plays a .h4m file and the screen is black and sound works
for 3 seconds.

Hmm... Ok, I will try again with Bloody Roar, but this issue needs to be resolved
once and for all.

I'd say its a problem with the CPU, tho it seems like the movie plays. I think the
bug could be similar to the Zelda NES problem. Is there some mode the HW has for 2D
drawing?

Maybe issue 840 is reconducible to this?
Tatsunoko VS Capcom won't get into opening trailer

Open the disk contents and see if it has a .h4m file on it.

Just wondering, what ever happened to this? The result seems to vary depending on
what the h4m file is used for. For example, demo disks that contain TGC files (which
still need to be emulated so they open within the emulator so I dont have to convert
them to gcm in order to play them coughcough also sonic gems collection) with H4M
movies within them play sound for a split second with maybe some video and then it
completely goes blank - no sound or anything.

Wonder how come we're still having trouble with this.

I completely agree, this should be looked upon more seriously.

Issue 1335 has been merged into this issue.

as of lately, h4m video of Pikmin in Luigi's Mansion shows the correct picture, but
it freezes after a few seconds..

Must be DSP issue then.

I don't believe it is a DSP issue, but an issue with quantizers.

Luigi's is still not working yet.

Issue 2025 has been merged into this issue.

Sometimes the pikmin movie trailer in Luigi's mansion play perfect using r4495 and JITiL. In newer revisions the video play for 10 seconds, after this, screen turns black but audio continue for + or - 30 seconds

I'd love for someone to get .h4m support working in Dolphin. You can add Batman: Dark Tomorrow to the list of games that need this.

And it's still broken. I believe this is the only thing keeping 007: NightFire from getting ingame. It's funny because the video kind of plays (with no sound), and if you try to skip it by pressing start or letting the video finish, the emulator completely freezes up and uses 100% of one CPU, so I think it's getting caught in an infinite loop on the CPU thread or something. It never gives any panic alerts, so no help there.

This issue probably ought to be given higher priority at this point, it has been here a LONG time (one of the first) and is a matter of emulation accuracy that is keeping many games unplayable.

The luigi's mansion pikmin movie works perfectly when ran with r6347 as far as I know

Tried Batman: Dark Tomorrow with r6356--the H4M video cutscenes still don't work for me.

I've just tried Batman: Dark Tomorrow with r6360, the OGL plug-in and Real XFB enabled. The video cut-scenes are working (the video begins with "Kemco Presents").

The problem I first described in Issue 2026, which was merged into this one, is still present; specifically, the audio for the movies in the BMX games no longer plays back at the correct rate. I can see how the issue as I wrote it back then would be merged into this one, because I made the scope too broad. So, should I create a new issue for it, or can someone un-merge 2026 from this one?

We have an existing issue for slow audio in movies. I have merged issue 2025 into issue 3449.

Whoops. How did I get the number wrong? Thanks Skidau.

Just tried the Luigi's Mansion trailer.

I wasn't able to iterate through all the plug-in combos but I can confirm the following...
-The US/EU releases hang with the DX9 and HLE audio plug-ins.
-The US release plays the trailer with the DX9 and LLE audio plug-ins.
-The EU release still hangs post the first frame of the trailer regardless of the audio plug-in used.
-On both US and EU releases the OpenGL plug-in crashes post the initial menu.

Windows 7 x64, r6658 /w SSE 4.2 Opts