MPQ to AVI

tonytang · Post by **tonytang** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 12:26 am

Has anyone successfully converted WarcraftIII's MPQ movies to AVI format ?
I would be very much appreciated if you could let me know which converter & the mmethod to do it.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:45 am

As far as I know, you just need DivX 5, and you have to rename the file from say "wc31.mpq" to "wc31.avi".

melezov · Post by **melezov** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 4:14 pm

Yes, Warcraft III animations are encoded with DivX 5.0 but if you actually want to do some constructive work with these (like editing) you would have to acquire a "BLZ0" Video For Windows codec..

I don't think there is a version of this codec available for Windows..
I've seen it in many codec packs for Linux movie players..

Anyway - if you want to edit these animations to use them in an W3MV (Warcraft III Music Video :) the most painless option would have to be using AVISynth's DirectShowSource() import function (Thanx, AD!)

If you need more help with this, gimmie a shout and I'll try to help you out.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 4:25 pm

BLZ0 is just a different FourCC code for DX50 (or Divx5). mplayer, for example, is set up to recognize BLZ0 as just another DivX5 stream:

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videocodec ffodivx
  info "FFmpeg MPEG-4"
  status working
  fourcc DIVX,divx
  fourcc xvid,XVID,xviD,XVIX
  ... [many more ] ...
  fourcc DX50, BLZ0 DX50
  ...

If an application gets tripped up on the fourcc code, changing it from BLZ0 to DX50 in, say, VirtualDub's hex editor should make things work.

melezov · Post by **melezov** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 6:21 pm

true true

It's just that the DirectShow method can be used with virtually anything once you get the hang of it.

PS: videocodec ffodivx <snip> Magic, got it ^^

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 6:23 pm

You do know that FFMpeg is a Linux app, right? (to melezov)

melezov · Post by **melezov** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 6:37 pm

Now I do ^^

Thanx!

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 6:46 pm

Well actually if it's DivX5 and you have the DivX5 VfW codec installed then you should be able to use it in any program that suppose VfW.

~klinky

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 6:57 pm

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:You do know that FFMpeg is a Linux app, right? (to melezov)

Actually, it's not. It is developed on UNIX/Linux systems, but the code is very portable. ffdshow, for example, uses the ffmpeg library. ffvfw is -- you guessed it -- an ffmpeg interface for VfW.

melezov · Post by **melezov** » Sat Jan 18, 2003 7:03 pm

klinky wrote:...if it's DivX5 and you have the DivX5 VfW codec installed then you should be able to use it in any program....

That's true, but as trythil said before, you first have to change the magic fourcc code thingymaboob

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