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I've recently been playing through 2 awesome games made by Legend Entertainment: their video game adaptations of The Wheel of Time and John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles. Unfortunately, despite using two completely different game engines, they both suffer from choppy playback of their Quicktime videos under Windows 7. Ironically, the audio is unaffected and plays as it should. Does anyone know how to overcome this problem?
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Expack: I've recently been playing through 2 awesome games made by Legend Entertainment: their video game adaptations of The Wheel of Time and John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles. Unfortunately, despite using two completely different game engines, they both suffer from choppy playback of their Quicktime videos under Windows 7. Ironically, the audio is unaffected and plays as it should. Does anyone know how to overcome this problem?
bump. there is one forum where someone has tried but failed to solve this. in the standalone quicktime 7 player they play fine, however in game they play at like half a frame a second. that forum user just settled on watching the videos in a standalone after each mission on Wheel of Time. i couldn't get the video to work until i realized i should change the directory it searches for videos in or that i had disc 2 mounted.

i tried converting the intro movie to wmv and the renaming it .mov and selected media player as the default but that did't work. being that the standalone of quicktime plays the movies flawlessly i don't think it's the media player but somehow the game. even trying to find forums related to thsi is hard because mostly i just get the book, or forums daydreaming of a movie to be released.
Here is a fix for the Wheel of Time Quicktime video playback issue. It basically makes Quicktime use the DirectDraw wrapper from Wine for Windows, which eliminates the choppy video playback problem. Tested on Windows7/64.

mediafire.com/download/io71kxm82zdwr1j/Wheel_of_Time_-_Quicktime_Fix.zip
Post edited December 08, 2014 by XeLaBa