Movie music

Is it possible to extract the music from the movies ingame? I'm specifically thinking of the human ending movie (classic campaign). I noticed the movies are MPQ's, but can't be opened with WinMPQ.

Well, you're quite right, the movies have the .MPQ extension. The catch is, this is just Blizzard playing tricks on us because they're not MPQ files at all but simply DivX-encoded AVI files whose filename extensions have been changed! And they might have gotten away with it, too, if DivX hadn't made such a big deal out of how Warcraft III would be using their codec. Anyway, all you have to do to get the audio out of them, then, is to use anything that can extract the audio from AVI files. :gsmile: There are many ways to do this, but my personal experience has shown that GoldWave sound editor's ability to strip AVIs of their audio tracks usually works best and fastest for me. But most anything that can extract the audio from an AVI and save it by itself will work.

However, I hate to break it to you, but- this question HAS been asked about six million, three hundred and fourty-four thousand, two hundred and ninety-eight times already in one form or another and is even part of at least one if not more of the FAQs on this board. Just thought I'd mention that before someone meaner comes along and yells at you for asking one of those question that people are no doubt getting sick of answering.

Anyway, there you have it. 8) Get something that can read the audio track from an AVI file and you're good to go. I believe the audio is MP3-compressed even if the video is DivX, so even if you don't have the DivX codec, it should be OK, though really, if that's so, how do you sleep at night without Divx?!

Oh, I guess there is the slight catch that, unfortunately, you cannot extract the music by itself from the file, the whole audio track, including the dialogue, is one entity and I have no idea how to extract it by itself. It simply cannot be done unless you were some kind of audio technology god that could filter out all the sound effects, but I have my doubts that would result in anything worth listening to...

Alternatively... Does anyone know if the Warcraft Soundtrack has the music from this scene on it? Mine is being shipped ahead of me before I move, (along with my PC, thus halting my work :() so I don't have access to it, but if it is, I'm sure you could get the clean music track that way. Anyway, hope that helped you somehow, Magos.