How to play the WoW trailers?

Question

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm removed the original trailer videos from the

\Data\Interface\Cinematics

and replaced them with a single

\Data\Interface\Cinematics\WoW3X_Intro_1280.avi

How do i play this video file¹?

The video is 1280x720, compressed with PMVX ({30355844-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}).

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Footnotes

¹ Outside of World of Warcraft

Answer

The .avi file contains a media type I am unfamiliar with: "PMVX", according to VLC media player. I could not open this file in any of the video formats mentioned below:

• Media Player Classic
• VLC Media layer

I do, however, have other copies of these in a different installation folder. Instead of:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Data\Interface\Cinematics

as you have mentioned, have you tried you installation language folder? For me this is enGB:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Data\enGB\Interface\Cinematics

Within this folder, I have each intro in 800 and 1024, as well as the Wrathgate cutscene, which I believe covers what you were looking for.

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