[MPlayer-users] any ides how to play this?

[gabor]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 09:44, Magne Oestlyngen wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:11, gabor wrote:
> > http://rt.sk/~gabor/starex.exe... 35MB long
> [...]
> > it plays on win...
> > 
> > i was told by people at blizzard ( i sent them a mail ) that the file
> > was created with the bink or smacker ( they're from www.radgametools.com
> > ), but even using those tools on windows i wasn't able to convert that
> > file into something useful.
> 
> You're on the right track.  Use linux to extract the SMK2 file:
> 
> Use hexedit to find where the SMK2 begins (it's at offset 0x22a20 in
> that file).  Convert to decimal (echo "ibase=16;22A20" | bc) and use
> dd to extract the video
> (dd if=starex.exe of=starex.smk bs=141856 skip=1).
> The use the radtools (binkconv) to convert it to avi.  I tried to
> do the convert it with wine, but got a "fixme:avifile:AVIFileInit ():
> stub!" :/
> Haven't tried it under windows, but it should work. :)

thanks, it works :)

btw. i had to find the next occurence of 'smk2' ....

now i only have to resize it to a correct aspect ratio ( the file is
320x308 :-)

thanks,
gabor
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