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The cinematics format of Quake III Arena and the many games built on its engine. Play a RoQ right here, and keep it as MP4. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your video starts playing the moment it opens, sized to fit your screen.
- Plays at once, sized to fit
- Play and pause • Drag the timeline
- Step frame by frame • Change the speed
- Export • Save as MP4 or MOV
About ROQ
Graeme Devine made RoQ for The 11th Hour in 1995 and brought it to id Software, where Quake III Arena and the games built on its engine played their intros and cinematics from .roq files.
A RoQ holds vector quantized video, blocks of 4 by 4 and 2 by 2 pixels from a codebook that changes with the picture, and DPCM sound at 22,050 Hz.
Filepeek decodes it with FFmpeg inside your browser, picture and sound, and Export saves an MP4 that plays on anything.
RoQ video
.roq
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- Graeme Devine, for The 11th Hour and id Software
- Released
- 1995
Inside the file
- Video
- RoQ vector quantization
- Audio
- RoQ DPCM
- Made by
- Quake III's engine
- Made for
- Games' cinematics
Opens in every browser
Filepeek decodes RoQ with FFmpeg in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. No browser plays it by itself.
- YouChromePlays through Filepeek
- YouEdgePlays through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxPlays through Filepeek
- YouSafariPlays through Filepeek
Apps that open ROQ
- WindowsVLC and mpv, which read it through FFmpeg
- MacVLC, IINA and mpv
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in plays it
- AndroidNo app built in plays it • An MP4 saved here does
Questions
Where are a Quake III game's videos?
In its .pk3 files, which are ZIPs, under video/. Open the PK3 here and pick a .roq inside.
Why do the blocks show when the picture moves fast?
RoQ builds each frame from small blocks out of a codebook, so a big change takes a few frames to settle, as it did in the game.
Can I convert it to MP4?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as MP4.