[Stealth]

didn't we already find a good MVE to AVI converter?

[Sandwich]

Stealth: no. There was an MVE2AVI program people knew about, but it only worked on other kinds of Interplay MVEs, not FS ones.

[Sheepy]

you guys are gods and i praise you

*worships sandwich's feet*

[Tiara]

Originally posted by Sheepy
*worships sandwich's feet*

What did they do?

[Turnsky]

and besides, i'd bet they'd smell:p

[Sheepy]

but they taste nice

[ZylonBane]

Originally posted by Admiral LSD
Update: Both FS1 and FS2 compile alright but placing the movies in the same directory as the .vp files etc doesn't do anything. I'm not quite sure what that means yet...

It means the MVE codec was stripped from the released source code.

[FreeTerran]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Hallfight.avi:devil:

Warning... 22Mb  And don't complain, it's better than the 1.52 Gb it started off as.

HOLY **** i want more of these COOL movies !!!

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by ZylonBane
It means the MVE codec was stripped from the released source code.

I thought about that but I wouldn't have expected the code to compile properly in that situation if the code just wasn't there. It could be that there's some code masking where the MVE code should be and allowing it to compile regardless but then that would defeat the purpose of having the MVE directive in the Makefile. The other alternative is that the code (or something like it, like the MVE code used in D2X, whose movies work perfectly in Linux, even with subtitles, being hacked that extra mile to work with FS movies) is there and it's compiling but I'm doing something wrong in the placement of the actual movie files and as a result they're not working. I admit, the former is the most likely but I don't understand why they'd add an MVE directive for something that doesn't work and is probably never going to work.

[Sheepy]

If your taking request, could some one do the intro to FS1 cause i am yet to see it

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by FreeTerran


HOLY **** i want more of these COOL movies !!!

Did you never play Freespace 1?

And Admiral LSD, I'm not even pretending to understand what you posted - it's faar too late for that - but I just want to clarify that the MVE codec/format is the touchy thing with Interplay, not the FS1/2 movies themselves. So as long as no one gets any bright ideas about including MVE2AVI in the SCP, we should be fine converting the movies to AVI and playing them in-game with calls to AVI playing functions.

EDIT: Sheepy, I'll get right on it.

[Sheepy]

thank yous i have never seen any of the movies (save the 2 here) so if you would be so kind *wink wink nudge nudge*

[Stryke 9]

Ooh! I know! Why don't we include MVE2AVI in the SCP?

[Sheepy]

Sounds like a bright idea that!

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Sandwich
the MVE codec/format is the touchy thing with Interplay, not the FS1/2 movies themselves

It's the same for Descent 2 though, isn't it? Any third party program that decodes the D2 movies would be just as illegal as MVE2AVI, MVEEXTRACT etc then, right?

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Sheepy
If your taking request, could some one do the intro to FS1 cause i am yet to see it

I'll see about doing it.

Originally posted by Admiral LSD


It's the same for Descent 2 though, isn't it? Any third party program that decodes the D2 movies would be just as illegal as MVE2AVI, MVEEXTRACT etc then, right?

Then why do I have both of those?

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Then why do I have both of those?

Because you aquired them under the counter from people/places that still had them. Interplay issued Descent Network with a "cease and desist" letter and they haven't carried it since AFAIK.

[Taristin]

Yeah... but there was a russian site... (the one with the pic of the golgotha as it's background) that had mveextract up until a few somethings ago.

[Xelion]

Interplay has lost all creditability so why should they be insistent on anything related to the games at all whether they hold rights or not - Volition on the other hand is different and I think they are the only ones who have a say..anyhow interplay to caught up in fixing themselves ...

great work on the avis

[Bobboau]

for thouse of you, who have not played FS1 (seen the cutsceenes) have a new set of undies redy for yoiu, for you shall **** thine pants