TrID VS Game Extractor

Assuming that I've not misunderstood, how does this compare to things like: TrID [0]?? Apart from being open source. [0] https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

If not, try using something like trid to detect what the file is, and other tools like ffmpeg or imagemagick to see if they can read it. Source: 11 months ago

.vi is not a file extension commonly associated with any common video format. The closest I can find is that it's an Arcsoft VideoImpression Project file, which may or may not contain actual video data. This is their website but from what I can find the VideoImpression product is discontinued. You can use TrID on the file to see what it thinks the file type is based on its magic number. Source: 11 months ago

You can try to use some tools that detect what extenstion file should have based on the content of the file, if the file is small, you can try https://www.checkfiletype.com/, otherwise you can try this tool: https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html. Source: about 1 year ago

If file isn’t working (extensible as mentioned) you could try TRiD. Source: over 1 year ago

Download Game Extractor and point it towards that file. A lotr of games especially from that time use the same few encryption algorithms. So might get you something. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://sourceforge.net/projects/gameextractor/ this is the best file extractor Ive ever used works for not only quakes .pak but also other game's compressed files. Source: over 2 years ago