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.
), I've stumbled across a way to play .mve format files in Winamp 5. If anyone's interested, click here.