WC3 Video Upgrade

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GodZirra

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Has anyone ever tried to convert the Movie files from the 3d0 version or Playstation version to PC format, in an attempt to upgrade the video quality? I have 3D0 and PS emulators and the 3d0, PS and PC versions of the game all in ISO format.

For example, the PS version is 4 disks and each disk has a "Movies#.LIB" file which seems to be the equivalent of the "Movies.Tre" file in the PC version. The difference is the PS version has 4 different movie files (Movies1.LIB - Movies4.LIB), each one about 500 MB in size.

If the LIB files could be converted to TRE format, then the PC WC3.CON file could be edited to point to these movie files and might make for a significant improvement on the video quality. The 3d0 vid quality for example has way less pixelation and the standard pc version, even with the DDHack.

Thoughts? Anyone ever been able to convert LIB to TRE?
 
It's a planned project, but it's more complicated than just renaming the files. There's some slight codec differences that would need to be hacked into the PC version. I'm sure it will happen someday but it's just not something that's been a priority so far.

The main differences are that the 3DO has higher color depth. Otherwise the resolution is the same. The other difference is that all the movies were rencoded to provide better compression for the 3DO so there's less noise and artifacts and a crisper look all around (plus none of those sticky pixels the PC version is plagued with).
 
On this topic, has anyone been able to successfully get any of the inflight video converted into a useable format from the ps1 INFLIT libs. HCl's movie player won't read them. I've packed them into a WCP tre just to test it and no dice for me. Is there something I'm missing or am I just retarded for bringing this up "again".
 
We worked out a PSX video extractor... not sure it works the best on the comm videos yet. HCls video player won't play them yet though. They are a different format than the PC game so just putting them into a tre file isn't enough.
 
Yeah, the lib dumper that I got was packed in with the ps1 mve converter. I just wanted to test to see if it was compatible with the pc versions player which I assumed is what the video player HCl made was only supposed to be for. Didn't work for me, (the converter on the ps1 inflight videos) unless I'm getting worse in my old age. Worked fine with the standard movies but not the inflight ones. Who am I kidding anyway, they'll look better with the pc versions stripped to "alpha" so they'll blend in with saga's/fso's hud color customization anyway as evidenced by the tech demo.
 
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