The videos should work. Are you playing rips?

I am, as I have been unable to locate physical copies so far.

From what I can tell by the file directories, the video data is there, and asking around on another forum many people reported similiar issues but nobody had a fix 🙁

I have had this issue getting fmv's for early windows titles to run too, on items I have the discs for.

This is part of why "abandonware" is not supported here. They are often ripped (missing data), cracked, hacked, etc. in ways that have unpredictable results and people here with legitimate copies can't replicate these problems.

Rendeva wrote:

From what I can tell by the file directories, the video data is there, and asking around on another forum many people reported similiar issues but nobody had a fix 🙁

What you report is consistent with a common ripping technique from the time - the video data files are replaced with "dummy files" - blank, short sequences. This brings the size down, but keeps the game from complaining about missing files.

Since the actual video data was removed, there is no fix, other than obtaining a full copy.

Alrighty then,

I shall look into acquiring full copies, guess I'm going bargain hunting. (I already found discs for Warcraft 1 and 2 cheap, once I get a floppy disk usb drive I'll expand my search. Thank you very much for your help 😀

I think if you want full videos and soundtrack you need the CD (not floppy) versions of Warcraft (I and II). For Red Alert - not sure.

There ain't no floppy red alert... it's only ever been a dual-CD release..