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Why is the cutscene/FMV problem in Linux gaming so difficult to fix? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see it a lot in visual novels, older PC games and PC ports of older non-PC games. It sounds so trivial on paper, like... just play the video? But I know it's not. Why though? Can we ever expect the problem to be fully solved? Right now it kinda seems like an uphill struggle, like by fixing cutscene playback in one game doesn't really seem to automatically fix it for other games, so it's not a situation where a convenient one size fits all solution works.

And I don't really get it, because if it's related to video codecs, there are only so many codecs out there, right? And then you also expect that there's probably just a few popular ones out there that'll be used for 99% of all cases, with a few odd outliers here and there perhaps.

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[–] warmaster 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there anything VLC can't play ? Why not use the same libraries ? Would it be illegal for Valve to use that?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VideoLAN (organization behind VLC) is in France, which is outside US juridiction. The methods used by VLC are authorized/legal. Software is also not patentable there. That's why it's still up after all these years. You can learn more on their site: https://www.videolan.org/legal.html

Valve, however, must obliged to US juridiction meaning they can't do the same as VLC. Software can also be patented when meeting certain technical requirements.

[–] warmaster 3 points 1 year ago

That's it. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It seems to struggle with screen recordings made by gnome. Last time I did that it played the video squashed into the left half of the screen