[IceFire]

Originally posted by Inquisitor
Backwards compatibility with the main campaign is a non-issue. You can still use the production EXE

It's illegal because they told us it was, and they removed it from the code to be in compliance with Interplay. Someone cared at some point.

Nobody can make MVE's can they? You had to send them to Voliton to be converted before. Seems like of work for next to no gain, when every mod author can make AVI's, MPG's or whatever the codec of the moment is.  IT would seem that the energy spent coding in an MVE player might be better spent coding in XVid or something like that? Something everyone could use, that had no legacy of questionable legality

Agreed completely.  In terms of movie playing, I'd really like to have the possibility of a small, portable movie package rather than a non-portable (hundreds of MBs) MVE package with questionable quality versus that of more recent codecs.

This is a dead horse...let it stay dead

[Inquisitor]

Redmenace: sorry, i was just generally commenting, not specifically at you

[redmenace]

maybe we can petition Interplay for a official conversion utility to convert from MVE to AVI. Although one obvious road block would be that other develepers other than volition might not want their movies decoded for the public. But I am sure that volition wouldn't mind having their movies decoded.

[redmenace]

wow i just compressed a mve file with divx to 7 mb. absolutly phenominal. Maybe it could be possible for Volition to convert them for us and some one like VW could host them for us? How could we go about requesting this from Volition?

[JC128]

Is there a legal way to convert the MVE videos from freespace to an avi or mpeg format. I wanna combine them into a nice Freespace movie hehehe

[Bobboau]

if all of the movies get converted and hosted somewere then this topic is so moot it hurts, this is the aproch I propose, if interplay *****es then:
a) it isn't our problem
b) who ever's problem it is can simply remove the converted movies

[redmenace]

currently there is no legal way to do it. the one that is illegal is mve2avi which is illegal because it is based upon the mve viewer. some one cracked it and made the proggy. 2ndly i will contact Volition since i am sure they probably kept the original movies and the movies are property of Volition. And if not we could talk to interplay and ask them for a blessing to do so(unlikly).

[Scuddie]

I still say we should ask V for an official mve DLL...

Oh, I wish DaveB was still around, he'd know what to do .

[redmenace]

well you see mves are owned by INTERPLAY. if they did so they would be in serious trouble with interplay. if you want a DLL ask interplay not volition.