r/NobaraProject • u/Chance_End_4684 • 2d ago

Question Question about Nobara's codec support

My 2017 potato laptop is currently running Fedora 44. I'm an avid gamer and absolutely loving most of the Windows games I play on the regular runs and plays on Linux.

However, some of the Windows games I play like Iron Sky Invasion and Terminator: Resistance has cutscene movies in the WMV video format. Unfortunately, I found that, even after following all multimedia codecs in Fedora to the letter, not even any of the Iron Sky Invasion briefings will play.

So my question is, does Nobara include all the codecs that allows all Steam games like Iron Sky Invasion and Terminator: Resistance play they're WMV-formated videos?

I ask because I like playing Iron Sky Invasion in particular but no longer want to be turned away from the game because none of it's briefings won't play.

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u/SwarleyDavidson 2d ago

I think all you have to do is use GE proton?

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u/JinKeota 2d ago

^ This.

If it's a codec problem in the game, it probably means that the version of Proton you're using does not include those codecs in the Window's Prefix.

Valve don't include them in standard Proton to avoid potential licensing issues with Microsoft iirc. As mentioned, if you switch to one of the community Protons like GE-Proton or Cachy-Proton they should have working codecs.

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u/Chance_End_4684 2d ago

Thing is I've tried both GE-Proton and proton-catchyos on Fedora and WMVs still won't play.

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u/JinKeota 1d ago

Hmm had a look at reports for Iron Sky Invasion and yeah, there does seem to be no compatibility with any version of Proton for the cutscences.

Thing is the game will pull codecs through the prefix (the fake Windows install Proton and Wine uses) as far as I am aware. So if it's not working with the Protons that have WMV support in the prefix I don't know if switching distros will even fix that.

One thing you could try, if you haven't already, is to use Protontricks and see if you can manually install Windows Media Player related media into the prefix. It has been a while since I've done it but I remember having to use that for some of the older Resident Evil games to get cutscences working (before GE-Proton made the fixes native).

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u/nasaboy007 2d ago

Including cutscenes as WMV is just so funny to me.

Just like if they had used QuickTime or RealPlayer video instead.