How do I use this .EXE movie?

[Eric]

I went to the IGNPC website and downloaded a Half-Life 2 demonstration
movie, but it appears to be encoded in some self-executing fashion.

It's named "Source_HDR02.exe" and is 116.3MB, I popped it open in
HexEdit, but the only readable indicator is something about it not being
executable in DOS mode. Is there some way I can play it(Or extract
something I can play) using QuickTime, RealPlayer or Windows Media
Player(Macintosh)?

I remember Blizzard doing this with the Diablo 1 trailer, and I hope it
isn't some kind of horrible trendŠ





Eric,

[Roger Johnstone]

In <eric-A29501.23473016092003@corp.supernews.com> Eric wrote:

> I went to the IGNPC website and downloaded a Half-Life 2 demonstration
> movie, but it appears to be encoded in some self-executing fashion.
>
> It's named "Source_HDR02.exe" and is 116.3MB, I popped it open in
> HexEdit, but the only readable indicator is something about it not
> being executable in DOS mode. Is there some way I can play it(Or
> extract something I can play) using QuickTime, RealPlayer or Windows
> Media Player(Macintosh)?
>
> I remember Blizzard doing this with the Diablo 1 trailer, and I hope
> it isn't some kind of horrible trendä

Try opening it with StuffIt Expander by dragging it onto the app's icon.
Sometimes these programs are self-extracting zip files, and if StuffIt
recognises the format it can skip past the self-extracting code and open
the zip portion. Sometimes.

--
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[Josh Brandt]

In article <eric-A29501.23473016092003@corp.supernews.com>,
Eric <eric@surfvh.com> wrote:

>I went to the IGNPC website and downloaded a Half-Life 2 demonstration
>movie, but it appears to be encoded in some self-executing fashion.
>
>It's named "Source_HDR02.exe" and is 116.3MB, I popped it open in
>HexEdit, but the only readable indicator is something about it not being
>executable in DOS mode. Is there some way I can play it(Or extract
>something I can play) using QuickTime, RealPlayer or Windows Media
>Player(Macintosh)?

That's a bink video self-playing executable.

You may be able to get it to play using the player from here:

[url]http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm[/url]

....but I haven't tried it. Near as I can tell, though, it's not an archive.

Josh

--
J. Brandt / [email]me@solipsism.net[/email] / [email]mute@sidehack.gweep.net[/email]

[Steve Linberg]

In article <20030917191031093+1200@news.inv.ihug.co.nz>,
Roger Johnstone <rojaws@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> In <eric-A29501.23473016092003@corp.supernews.com> Eric wrote:

> > I went to the IGNPC website and downloaded a Half-Life 2 demonstration
> > movie, but it appears to be encoded in some self-executing fashion.
> >
> > It's named "Source_HDR02.exe" and is 116.3MB, I popped it open in
> > HexEdit, but the only readable indicator is something about it not
> > being executable in DOS mode. Is there some way I can play it(Or
> > extract something I can play) using QuickTime, RealPlayer or Windows
> > Media Player(Macintosh)?
> >
> > I remember Blizzard doing this with the Diablo 1 trailer, and I hope
> > it isn't some kind of horrible trendä

>
> Try opening it with StuffIt Expander by dragging it onto the app's icon.
> Sometimes these programs are self-extracting zip files, and if StuffIt
> recognises the format it can skip past the self-extracting code and open
> the zip portion. Sometimes.

Right, and if that doesn't work, you can try the same thing in VPC, if
you have access to it. If you're lucky, you'll have a media file at the
end. If not, it probably won't play well in VPC.

If you mean the E3 videos of HL2, you can get them in plain media format
as well - just google for it.

[Josh Brandt]

In article <slinberg-8173C1.10550617092003@netnews.attbi.com>,
Steve Linberg <slinberg@crocker.com> wrote:

>> > It's named "Source_HDR02.exe" and is 116.3MB, I popped it open in

[...]

>If you mean the E3 videos of HL2, you can get them in plain media format
>as well - just google for it.

This is a new one, showing off some of the rendering capabilities of the
engine.

Really, it's not very exciting unless you get all hot and bothered over
shiny metal roofs and things, and a big weird-lookin' bug deal with slightly
shiny chitin. Yes, it's nicely done, but if you're not a hardcore 3D
graphics wonk, it won't be the sort of thing to make you wet yourself and
fall out of your seat twitching like some of the E3 videos were.

Josh
--
J. Brandt / [email]me@solipsism.net[/email] / [email]mute@sidehack.gweep.net[/email]

[Zeph]

In article <eric-A29501.23473016092003@corp.supernews.com>, Eric
<eric@surfvh.com> wrote:

> I went to the IGNPC website and downloaded a Half-Life 2 demonstration
> movie, but it appears to be encoded in some self-executing fashion.
>
> It's named "Source_HDR02.exe" and is 116.3MB, I popped it open in
> HexEdit, but the only readable indicator is something about it not being
> executable in DOS mode. Is there some way I can play it(Or extract
> something I can play) using QuickTime, RealPlayer or Windows Media
> Player(Macintosh)?
>
> I remember Blizzard doing this with the Diablo 1 trailer, and I hope it
> isn't some kind of horrible trendŠ

It's a Windows executable; you can't run it on a Mac without emulation.

z

[Eric]

In article <mute.1063809109@sidehack.sat.gweep.net>,
[email]mute@sidehack.sat.gweep.net[/email] (Josh Brandt) wrote:

> In article <eric-A29501.23473016092003@corp.supernews.com>,
> Eric <eric@surfvh.com> wrote:

> >I went to the IGNPC website and downloaded a Half-Life 2 demonstration
> >movie, but it appears to be encoded in some self-executing fashion.
> >
> >It's named "Source_HDR02.exe" and is 116.3MB, I popped it open in
> >HexEdit, but the only readable indicator is something about it not being
> >executable in DOS mode. Is there some way I can play it(Or extract
> >something I can play) using QuickTime, RealPlayer or Windows Media
> >Player(Macintosh)?

>
> That's a bink video self-playing executable.
>
> You may be able to get it to play using the player from here:
>
> [url]http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm[/url]
>
> ...but I haven't tried it. Near as I can tell, though, it's not an archive.

Thanks, it worked, I was still using the 1.0 Bink player and needed to
download the 1.5w one. They should put the word "bink" at the head of
the file in hex or something.

When I played it(@1280·1024, 19") and it took up most of the screen, I
thought: "HmmŠ I didn't turn pixel-doubling on" and then noticed how
incredibly sharp it was. All I can say is; I want DVDs to start coming
in XGA Bink format! ;-)




Eric,