.MPQ File

The mpq file extension is used for mpq archives used by many games developed by Blizzard Entertainment, like Starcraft and Diablo. MPQ (Mo'PaQ) is short for Mike O'Brien Pack.

The mpq files are used exclusively in Blizzard's games and contain various game resource data (including graphics, sounds, and level data). The format's capabilities include compression, encryption, file segmentation, extensible file metadata, cryptographic signature and the ability to store multiple versions of the same file for internationalization and platform-specific differences.

MPQ archives can use a variety of compression algorithms which may also be combined.

Supported compression algorithms:

• PKZIP
• Huffman
• bzip2
• LZMA

In some Blizzard video games, for example Warcraft III, in-game cinematics are using *.mpq file extension, but there aren't archived with MPQ format. There are stored in AVI video format encoded by DivX video codec. Only .avi extension is renamed to .mpq.

An mpq file extension is used for game resource archives in games created by Blizzard Entertainment, such as Diablo, Diablo II, Diablo III or World of Warcraft.

How to open:

You can view contents of *.mpq files with MPQ Editor and some other similar software programs.

How to convert:

You can extract contents with a few mpq tools. See suggested apps. Simple conversion does not make sense and is not possible.