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Abraham edited this page Mar 5, 2023 · 3 revisions

A step by step example

For this example we will use the Macromedia Director 4 Tour that you will find in c:\directr4\samplmov\tour\tour.dir.

Step 1: Save and compact

The first step with any DIR file is to open it in Macromedia Director and "save and compact" it. Drxtract can not work with a file that hasn't been compacted.

Step 2: Run drxtract

The drxtract command needs three parameters: drxtract [pc|mac] <file.drx> <directory>

  • pc/mac: you will need to specify if this is a Mac file or a Windows file.
  • file.drx: this is the director file you want to extract. It can be a DRX file, a DIR file or an EXE file.
  • directory: any directory you want.

Following with the example, we will run the following commands:

mkdir TOUR
./drxtract mac tour.dir TOUR

By running this command a lot of debug lines will appear and at the end the TOUR directory will contain the extracted data.

Step 3: Check the extracted contents

The following directory structure should have been created:

  • TOUR/bin: Binary data contained inside the DRX file (a DRX file is just a RIFF file).
  • TOUR/cas: Casting.
  • TOUR/cas/config.json: Movie preferences.
  • TOUR/cas/X: Casting member number X files.
  • TOUR/cas/X/data.json: Information about the casting member.
  • TOUR/markers.json: Markers in the Director score.
  • TOUR/score.json: The Director score.

Types of casting members:

  • Image: inside the cas/X directory you will find the BMP image and (if you have ImageMagick installed) a PNG version.
  • Sound: inside the cas/X directory you will find the WAV file and (if you have ffmpeg installed) the MP3 version.
  • Script: inside the cas/X directory you will find the original lingo script (when available) and the decompiled version.
  • Other casting members
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