Download Video Instruction Misinformation ...

[Darkspire]

First of thankyou for Warzone 2100.

I think you have a problem with the instructions on the download screen, i downloaded and installed WZ didnt expect the videos to download and they didnt so i downloaded the standard quality and tried to follow your instructions
Umm, i am blonde but it states:

Video instructions: Place sequences.wz in Program Files/Warzone 2100/sequences.wz

Ok, put the file 'sequences.wz' in the root of the install directory ... so i look in the zip expecting to find one file, sequences.wz, but there are 183 files so i extracted the zip to the root of the install directory and it worked.
For the sake of new users would it be possible to be changed to something like:

Video instructions: Extract sequences.zip to Program Files/Warzone 2100/

On a side note, i understand that to make the vids fullscreen would degrade quality but the intro would look so much better in a black background and the text (subtitles?) wouldnt be so lost, white on yellow is not easy to read.

Thanks again for WZ

Darkspire

[milo christiansen]

sequences.zip is supposed to be named sequences.wz and placed where you extracted it. Apparently some computers/web browsers rename the file when you download it

[Zarel]

Um, can you take a screenshot of where it says "sequences.zip"? Did you rename it from "sequences.wz" to "sequences.zip" or something?

[Darkspire]

Um, can you take a screenshot of where it says "sequences.zip"? Did you rename it from "sequences.wz" to "sequences.zip" or something?

Um, cant take a screenshot of where it says "sequences.zip" as it doesn't say that .. thats what i was posting about
and no i didnt rename the file, it downloaded as a zip.

Someone today has added some more words on the download page It now states :

Warning: sequences.wz may look like a zip file. DO NOT RENAME OR EXTRACT IT.

That doesnt help either as sequences.zip needs to be extracted into the root directory as i tried just putting the zip in there and the videos didnt work.

Thanks

Darkspire

[Zarel]

Just... take a screenshot of how you know it's a zip file...

[BunkerBlaster]

Just... take a screenshot of how you know it's a zip file...

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[Zarel]

Thanks, BunkerBlaster, that was exactly what I was looking for.

What browser are you using? That looks like IE on Windows XP. Is it IE6? IE7? Maxthon?

[BunkerBlaster]

Using IE8. I don't see anything in the settings that would make it rename a file extension to .zip. If it did, that would not make sense because you wouldn't know the proper file extension. I did however have to rename the file extension to .WZ

[Zarel]

hm. Bad IE8. >_>

[Buginator]

hm. Bad IE8. >_>

You can say that again. I tried IE8 locally, and it changed it to a zip.
Silly program.

Yet another reason NOT to use IE!

The issue is it handles MIME types wrong.

[Zarel]

Hmm. Do you know a fix for that? We could serve it from another server using a MIME type like application/octet-stream...

[Buginator]

"If the file is marked as "content-disposition=attachment" in the HTTP header, Internet Explorer treats the file name from the URL as final and does not rename it before placing it in the cache. "

[Zarel]

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Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*
Content-Disposition:attachment; filename="sequences.wz"
Content-Length:0
Content-type:text/html
Date:Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:04:05 GMT
Location:http://softlayer.dl.sourceforge.net/project/warzone2100/warzone2100/Videos/2.2/low-quality-en/sequences.wz
Server:lighttpd/1.4.26
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.2.9

I'm getting the content-disposition right here...

[BunkerBlaster]

I didn't need the videos I was just testing to see if I had the same problem as the video downloaded as WZ file a long time ago. As it turns out for IE8 I was missing a few updates. I think its KB2503658 that did the trick. The video now prompts to download as a WZ file so the problem was on my end. Sorry for the confusion.

Edit: Thought the probem went away but I guess not. I tried several times, it sometimes prompts to download .WZ but most time it prompts as .ZIP. Its inconsistent.

[BunkerBlaster]

hm. Bad IE8. >_>

Same thing happens when downloading a map with IE8. Perhaps the Faq for how to install a map could also use the same comment as was done for the Videos.