Play PC game FMV

[Ripper_Jack]

I am not sure if a similar thread to this has been posted or not, if there are, please show me to them.
Anyway, I was wondering if there are any programs out there where I can play PC game FMV's like WarCraft 3 and others.

Thanks in advance

[Kane]

Well with PC games, generaly you will have to either find something specific to the game (like the C&C movie ripper), or just check on the CD to see if they are in simple AVI or MPEG format. The Warcaft III movies are compressed using the Bink codec, then all stored in a single file. You'd need a tool specific to Warcraft III to extract them.

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[Ripper_Jack]

What about for other games? not just Warcraft, is there a general tool that I can use for most games?
Or do I have to research for a different tool for every different game?

BTW, I tried rename the Warcraft movie file from .RPQ to .MPEG and I got it to play in WinMedia Player but all I get are the sounds but no pictures.

[Badaro]

Originally posted by Lord Kane
The Warcaft III movies are compressed using the Bink codec, then all stored in a single file. You'd need a tool specific to Warcraft III to extract them.

Actually, the Warcraft III movies are just standard AVI files, and they use the DivX codec with a different FourCC (BLZ0) for video and MP3 for audio.

Originally posted by Ripper_Jack
BTW, I tried rename the Warcraft movie file from .RPQ to .MPEG and I got it to play in WinMedia Player but all I get are the sounds but no pictures.

1) Rename them to AVI, not MPEG;
2a) Get a tool to change the FourCC code of AVI files, and change "BLZ0" to "DIVX" or;
2b) Install a recent build of ffdshow. I recommend the 2002-12-11 alpha build.

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[Kane]

>Actually, the Warcraft III movies are just standard AVI files, and they use the DivX codec with a different FourCC (BLZ0) for video and MP3 for audio.

My bad. Must be thinking of another game... I remember Blizzard was courting the codec before.

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[Badaro]

Originally posted by Lord Kane
>Actually, the Warcraft III movies are just standard AVI files, and they use the DivX codec with a different FourCC (BLZ0) for video and MP3 for audio.

My bad. Must be thinking of another game... I remember Blizzard was courting the codec before.

Older Blizzard games used Smacker (Warcraft II, Diablo, Starcraft) or Bink (Diablo II). Warcraft III was the first to use DivX.

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[Ripper_Jack]

Thank you everyone who replied especially Badaro, I finally got it to work.
Thanks again. :-)

[Galway no Sora]

Well, maybe kinda late ... but just an additional info. I play the movies of WarCraft III with mplayer 2 [well it's Window Media Player, actually get this by Shift+right click] and it runs perfectly WITHOUT needed to rename its extension at all

BTW, I tried rename the Warcraft movie file from .RPQ to .MPEG and I got it to play in WinMedia Player but all I get are the sounds but no pictures.

If what you mean the first movie, thats a trick from Blizzard, I think ... actually, the movie run well, just the opening is black screen for a couple seconds].

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