[DCTH]

Hello there!
First I want to say thank you for this great work an FreespaceSource!

I have a legal copy of Freespace 2.... But the vids just won't play! So i wanted to convert them into avi-format.
But everytime i try it, the screen turns black for a short time an then i have a  0(zero)k-avi file.....
I tested different downloads of the mve2avi-program! (seem to be the same prog, but different releases).

By the way: I use windowsXP with SP2..... here i get no error-message.
with win2000 the vids plays when i start the original game (but i just don't use win2000... it's installed for some recovery-reasons).
when i start to convert an mve-file, it gives me a "directdraw initzialisation failed".

Hope someone can help me!

ps.: sorry for my not so good english, but it rusted a little (i am german)

[Nuclear1]

Here are all of the Freespace 1 movies.

And here are the Freespace 2 movies.

And...

[DCTH]

yea... i know! But first i play the whole game in german... so it would be nice to have german vids!
second point is: That would be oder 100mb to download... not everyone has DSL... (or can at least get it) :-(

[Kie99]

PM me your E-mail address.

[Deepstar]

English:

Use the MVE2AVI converter.
Here

The Videos will be big (Intro has 2 GB) so calculate more Hard Disk Space than before.

Then use VirtualDub tio convert them to XVID/DivX or whatever.. than you have smaller AVI Files than before.

Thats all.. you need only the same File Name as before so.

Intro.mve -> Intro.avi
Colossus.mve -> Colossus.avi

More Info how to convert a AVI 2 DivX



In German:

Nutz den MVE2AVI Converter Download Hier

nach dem Convertieren (das Video wird während der Konvertierens mit komischen Farben abgespielt -> ist normal) ist das Intro z.B 2 GB groß, daher kalkuliere vorher ein bisschen mehr HDD Speicher ein.

Um sie auf eine gute kleine Größe zu bringen nutz z.B VirtualDub und konvertiere sie erneut auf DivX, XVid oder beliebiges, Freespace 2 unterstützt da alle gänginen Formate. Nach dem endgültigen Konvertieren ist das ganze Video kleiner. Die Videos müssen vor dem .avi aber den selben Namen wie vorher haben, also Intro.mve wird zu Intro.avi usw.



Mehr Infos zum konvertieren von AVI zu DivX (Englisch)


Mfg

Deepstar



I hope thats it's no problem than i write in both languages.

[DCTH]

@deepstar
sorry... doesn't work either!
the same thing as usual: short black screen, then back to windows! oh and the same small avi-file with 175kb

[phatosealpha]

Are you 100% sure you are using the correct version?  There is a high color version of MVE to AVI which is neccessary for the freespace MVEs.

[DCTH]

... i'm sure! I read the manuals more than once!

I've just tried it with the program kietotheworld mailed me!
A MVE-Extractor..... But this time i get following error-message:

Run-time error '339':
Component 'MSCOMCTL.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid

Unfortuneatly this says nothing to me..... but its obviously not on my system!

Edit: Ok... now i've installed an registered this library-file and i can create a exe-file..... but this doesn't work! -> Black screen, then back to desktop!

[karajorma]

Which movie are you trying to convert? Don't bother with intro unless you've got an NTFS formated drive to save it on. Intro.mve is over 4GB in size when you convert it.

If you're getting failures with something small like Bastion then it's time to try something else.

For a start use the version of MVE2AVI I use as that way I know that any problems are due to something being different between your system and mine. You can get it from here

[DCTH]

i've tried almost every movie..... and don't worry! I've enough space on my NTFS-formatted disk!
I just just the option -log to create a logfile.... but almost nothing in there sounds familiar!
For the logfile, see next post....

[DCTH]

Mve2Avi package, version 2.4 (13/04/2003), Hicolor revision, (c) 2001-2003 ABel[TeamX]
Log started
Parsing parameters:
   input file: e:\convert\fsp3\intro.mve
   color autodetection: hicolor
   saving to AVI file intro
   FPS autodetection: 30.00 frames per second
Library is ready
User has requested the DirectSound object
 result=0: No error
MyIDirectSound(1): Stub object created
MyIDirectSound(1).CreateSoundBuffer called. 0 bytes requested
MyIDirectSoundBuffer(2): Stub object created (primary buffer)
User has requested the DirectDraw object
 result=0: No error
MyIDirectDraw(3): Stub object created
MyIDirectDrawSurface(4): Stub object created (primary surface)
MyIDirectDrawSurface(4): PixelFormat requested
   DirectX said: 16 bits, mask: F800-07E0-001F
   We substitute: 5-5-5
MyIDirectDrawSurface(4): PixelFormat requested
   DirectX said: 16 bits, mask: F800-07E0-001F
   We substitute: 5-5-5
MyIDirectDrawSurface(5): Stub object created
MyIDirectDrawSurface(6): Stub object created
MyIDirectSound(1).CreateSoundBuffer called. 264556 bytes requested
MyIDirectSoundBuffer(7): Stub object created (secondary buffer)
MyIDirectSoundBuffer(7).GetCaps: Buff Size=264556 bytes
MyIDirectDrawSurface(5).Lock Ok
MyIDirectDrawSurface(6).Lock Ok
MyIDirectDrawSurface(5).Unlock ok
MyIDirectDrawSurface(6).Unlock ok
MyIDirectSoundBuffer(7): Stub destroyed
MyIDirectDrawSurface(5): Stub Destroyed
MyIDirectDrawSurface(6): Stub Destroyed
MyIDirectDrawSurface(4): Stub Destroyed
MyIDirectDraw(3): Stub Destroyed
MyIDirectSoundBuffer(2): Stub destroyed
MyIDirectSound(1): Stub destroyed
Frame played: 0 frames dropped: 0
Dump Files or Frames created: 0
Sound length: 176372 bytes
7 objects were created
Library Unloaded

[DCTH]

No more ideas?
I mean, i can't even watch them when starting normal Freespace

[Carl]

COnverting .MVE into .AVI is illegal. watch this thread get locked.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by DCTH
No more ideas?
I mean, i can't even watch them when starting normal Freespace

Quite frankly I'm mystified as to why it didn't work for you. If you can find the space for it somewhere you could try uploading the german version of Bastion and let me have a go at it.

Beyond that I've got no idea.

[DCTH]

I'm sure it would work if the vids would at least play.....
I tried using the mveplayer from Interplay (which is hopefully legal) to watch them.... It doesn't work!

@karajorma
Thanks for the offer but it isn't necessary.....
Maybe i watch out for a system with win98 running on it an give it another try there!

And one last thing:
@ Carl
Have you used the searchengine of this board with 'mve avi'....?
Don't think anyone really bothers about this thread!
and btw: I buyed this game.... and i want to see those damn vids! No matter in which format... mve or avi....

greets
DC

[Scuddie]

A bit more clarification:  Converting MVE to AVI is not illegal, nor infringement.  However, to fully reveal the programming behind MVE IS infringement, and this has not been done with this utility.  MVE2EXE(?) was shut down because the executable movie was just that, a standalone that could recreate MVE compression if exploited a certain way, because much of the info was in the EXE header.

[DaBrain]

Hi, DCTH.

Ich dachte mir schon, dass das ganze Konvertieren kompliziert wird...


Hast du die MVE Datei mal von der CD kopiert und dann MVE2AVI laufen lassen?
Ich glaube es wird eine Temp Datei im selben Verzeichnis angelegt, was ja auf der CD nicht klappen wird...

[DCTH]

@DaBrain
Klar hab ich das gemacht.... aber wie weiter oben ja schon gesagt: Ich kann die Vids ja nichtmal abspielen, selbst wenn ich das Orginale FreeSpace2 starte. Und das ist es ja letztendlich was mve2avi macht: Das Video abspielen und dann einfach capturen, also mitschneiden...

Kurz: Auf meinem PC laufen keine MVEs (warum auch immer)
-> Lösung: nen PC finden der die abspielen kann (mit dem entsprechendem Player)

[Scuddie]

Mach Heir Das Nein Telechargen

I have no idea what I just said .

[Hippo]

now that Interplay has gone under, there should in theory be nothing stopping one from converting the mve's... I'm actually curious if a coder isn't interested to take one of the converters, look at how it works, and re impliment it...