Playing MVE files in Winamp
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2004 12:27 am
I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I'm willing to bet there are least a few people here who don't know about it. I just stumbled across a means of playing Interplay's .mve format movie files in Winamp (5, at least; I'm not sure about 2 or 3). I was poking around on the site of Game Audio Player, which can play a wide variety of PC game sound formats, including D3's .osf format. It can also play sound files from different compressed file formats. Anyway, the site also has available for download a package of freeware DirectShow filters that allow you to play certain types of files, including .mve files, in any audio player that supports DirectShow. Winamp 5 comes with such a plugin installed. Anyway, if anyone's interested, follow these steps:
1. Download the filter package here and extract the contents to any folder of your choice.
2. Run the register.bat file to register the filters.
3. Open Winamp, go to Options->Preferences, select Input under the Plug-ins menu, and double-click on the DirectShow Decoder plugin.
4. Add ";MVE" to the end of the string of file extensions.
5. If you want Winamp to be the default .mve player, go up to File Types and select MVE.
I know that there are players/converters for .mve files available, but for simply viewing the files as they are, I figure that this method works pretty well.
1. Download the filter package here and extract the contents to any folder of your choice.
2. Run the register.bat file to register the filters.
3. Open Winamp, go to Options->Preferences, select Input under the Plug-ins menu, and double-click on the DirectShow Decoder plugin.
4. Add ";MVE" to the end of the string of file extensions.
5. If you want Winamp to be the default .mve player, go up to File Types and select MVE.
I know that there are players/converters for .mve files available, but for simply viewing the files as they are, I figure that this method works pretty well.
