Secret project movies

[Illuminatus]

I've spent last few days exploring various files in SMAC(X) folders. The list of movie files is as following:

AI defeated movies:
angels.wve
believe.wve
caretake.wve
cyborg.wve
drone.wve
fungboy.wve
gaians.wve
hive.wve
usurper.wve
univ.wve
spartans.wve
morgan.wve

Player defeated movies:
losealien.wve
loseman.wve
losewoman.wve

Secret projects movies:
asceticVirtues.wve
bulkMatter.wve
citizensDefense.wve
clinical_Immortality.wve
cloningVats.wve
commandNexus.wve
cyborgFactory.wve
dreamTwister.wve
empathGuild.wve
humanGenome.wve
hunterSeeker.wve
livingRefinery.wve
longevityVaccine.wve
maritimeControl.wve
merchantExchange.wve
nanofactory.wve
networkBackbone.wve
neuralAmplifier.wve
selfAwareColony.wve
singularityInductor.wve
smacxcloudbase.wve
smacxgrid.wve
smacxmanifold.wve
smacxnethack.wve
spaceElevator.wve
supercollider.wve
telepathicMatrix.wve
theoryOfEverything.wve
universalTranslator.wve
virtualWorld.wve
voiceOfPlanet.wve
weatherParadigm.wve
xenoempathyDome.wve

Other movies:
theyTranscend.wve - never seen this before, movie that should occur when you lost the transcend race
transcend.wve -the transcend win movie
logo.wve -alternate animated firaxis logo, never seen it before
open.wve -a normal sized smacx intro mvoie
opening.wve -smac intro movie
openingx.wve -double sized smacx intro mvoie
close_ct.wve -caretaker alien win
close_us.wve -usurper alien movie

I've also tried to edit secret projects movies - trying to rip out sound files from them or replace it with other sound files. Namely, I tried to alter opening.wve movie so that it has openingm.mp3 instead openingf.mp3 naration.

I've tried using the wing commander movie player to rip out to avi files first, however I can't seem to do that. It doesn't recognize wve files as playable, and when I alter the wve extension to tre it frecognizes it but fails to load it. I assume that if I could convert it to avi files I could rip out the sound from movie files. Question is, could altered avi files be converted back to wve extension?

[Maniac]

mp3s of the movie sound would be neat.

[wgabrie]

Something I've been curious about. I have heard that the SMAC movies aren't playable. However, I've been able to view the movies that came in my mac installation.

How about a compatibility test? I have uploaded the theyTranscend movie. Can you see if it will run for you?

THEYTRANSCEND.WVE.zip

[Jerh9e1k5]

Well I'm not very competent with computers but I quickly installed Divx and tried to run the file you posted with it (after unzipping it of course). This did not work.

Perhaps someone with more technical know how can figure it out.

Hope that helped, best of luck on the Civ4Smac project!

[Illuminatus]

This is unrelated to C4:AC project, but related to Apolyton Pack project.

Wgabrie, this is a .wve file. I can view it with dos player that comes with the game, but it is useless for editing or ripping out sounds. I believe that Mac/Linux has .mpg files.

[The_Reckoning]

I'm useless at coding etc. but I can play the files with VLC Media Player.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[Illuminatus]

I've tried the VLC player, but although it seems to read the file, it doesn't produce either audio or video output.

[wgabrie]

What formats let you rip audio/video? Or is it the player that does this?

[Zoid]

I found this player http://xinehq.de/index.php/features but it requires a Linux or Unix system to run. It plays Electronic Arts. wve files.

This app also plays EA .wve files, but it also requires Linux/Unix. http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php

And there seem to be two file types named .wve. The older video files and the newer audio files used in Psion Series 3a/3c/3mx handheld computers.

[Illuminatus]

Originally posted by wgabrie
What formats let you rip audio/video? Or is it the player that does this?

Well .wve format is impossible to be constructively used. I would first have to convert it to something else, but I cannot follow the footsteps of Blake and Rubin. Wing Commander movie player fails to rip it to avi every time.