Ripping WC4 intro video with HCl's tool

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Hello all,
I've no problems watching any WC3 or 4 videos, and I can rip most of them to AVI just fine. The WC4 intro video, however, I can watch, but when I rip it the resulting file is unplayable. No video playback software I have would play it - BSplayer locks up, WMV says that there's no appropriate codec... Any tool for opening video files I throw at it claims that it's not an AVI file...

Has anyone succeeded in doing this? I know someone has because I saw the footage in the music videos. For starters, the resulting file is over 2GB, and as I see, not all apps can open files larger than 2GB. I got those that can (BSPlayer being one) and a tool for splitting large AVI's also doesn't take it.

As I mentioned before, HCl's player plays it fine, it's just the extraction. Any thoughts? The file is going to an NTFS file system.
 
I had the same problem. I suspect it’s because I used the CD version, and maybe you too. The scenes you saw in the music videos were probably taken from the DVD version, which don’t need to be ripped as they are already in a playable format. BTW that is not the only one, there is another video that causes the same problem but right now I can’t remember which one is.
 
Yes, I am using the CD version. That's disappointing... I think I'll drop a line to HCl. If the app can play it, it should be able to rip it.

I do recall another clip that didn't play, but I stopped on the intro. Thanks for confirming the issue.
 
Hi,

VirtualDub will let you split the file that HCI's player rips. It's available for free at www.virtualdub.org. I was able to load the >2 GB file ripped from the Intro and export it to multiple AVI's. I forget the details (I've since gotten the DVD version), but it wasn't too hard to figure out from scratch.

Good luck!

-Quantum Cowboy
 
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VirtualDub will let you split the file that HCI's player rips.
-Quantum Cowboy
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Thanks for the pointer! VirtualDub rebuilds the "missing index block" for the file, and re-saving the file creates a working AVI.
I'm surprised I've not used VirtualDub in the past...
 
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