MP3 Sound Files in-game

dragonfly · Post by **dragonfly** » Tue May 04, 2004 8:36 pm

Is it possible to use MP3 files as regular sound files instead of WAV files? Or maybe compress with MP3 and use the WAV as a container. Because pure uncompressed WAV files are really bad quality at the filesizes we're looking at - which is not more than 500kb per file. If it's possible to use MP3 instead it would sound soooo much better. I figured since the music is MP3 there should be support for sound fx as MP3 as well in the engine... True?

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue May 04, 2004 8:43 pm

You can use mp3 even though it doesnt show up as a supported fileformat

dragonfly · Post by **dragonfly** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:21 pm

Ack! The game engine doesn't accept general WAV RIFF files with MP3 compression. And I thought it would be easy to replace old sound files with mp3's... Damn.

Is there some kind of link between objects and their corresponding sound files in the TESCS?

Texas · Post by **Texas** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:22 pm

Some games dont support both, Morrowind does 8)

dragonfly · Post by **dragonfly** » Tue May 04, 2004 9:29 pm

Morrowind probably supports MP3 files, but not embedded MP3 in a WAV RIFF.

Which means files will get about ten times bigger than they could have been with RIFF support.

Irritating.

Garland · Post by **Garland** » Wed May 05, 2004 9:08 pm

why not use ogg?

you can convert wavs to it with audacity [url]http://audacity.sourceforge.net/[/url]

Though I'm not sure if that really solves your filesize problem...heh

dragonfly · Post by **dragonfly** » Wed May 05, 2004 9:17 pm

Well Morrowind won't play Ogg-files either (duh). It's of course a possibility to distribute the files as MP3's together with a script that decompresses them after being downloaded and places them in the correct directories... But the sounds would still take up a lot of harddisk space. Say 2-3GB for all of TR...

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:30 pm

I dont understand, why embed them in a wav when it can play pure mp3?

dragonfly · Post by **dragonfly** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:36 pm

That's just it. It CAN'T play pure MP3. The files don't work. They play in the CS but not in the game.