GiGaHeRz's FMV Search & Extract Tool - Beta 0 - Page 5

**Yeloazndevil** · October 29th, 2004

about time u release a new version

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altivec · October 29th, 2004

do you mean the shadows on the window? and but it's fine with the white BG but i really like the black now...

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neveragain · November 1st, 2004

It's a good program, although... What I was really looking for is a Star Ocean 3 fmv extractor. Velocity 7 asked about this a while back, but he doesn't accept e-mail and hasn't been "active" for over a month. Just wondering if anyone else has had luck with SO3 movies (i.e.: perhaps finding a game-specific extractor?) or know if Velocity 7 got anywhere. Thanks.

**GiGaHeRz** · November 2nd, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yeloazndevil

about time u release a new version

I have started to prepare the next beta, but I don't know how to improve the search engine :\ (I want to support games like FFX, but i can't find info on how they save the data on disk

)

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"There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years)

The Book and other stories:
Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME!
MetaLife, Inc. (intro)
SubGaea (intro)
Crow Blade (intro for now)
Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts.

My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho.
For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

yair23 · November 2nd, 2004

maybe you should get the cube media player and check the program for info ...

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**GiGaHeRz** · November 19th, 2004

Beta 05 released. Read the first post for more info.

Remember to comment any bugs you find! I can't fix them if I don't know they exist

__________________
"There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years)

The Book and other stories:
Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME!
MetaLife, Inc. (intro)
SubGaea (intro)
Crow Blade (intro for now)
Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts.

My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho.
For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

yair23 · November 20th, 2004

man .. what took you so long ?
JK

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hbk0259 · November 20th, 2004

errr i think i just found a bug. the executable won't detect any cdvd plugin.
i placed the plugin that came with the executable to the same folder with the executable. i also tried peops cdvd 1.1 and renamed it to reader.dll but still it wont detect the plugin
one question: whats that cdvd plugin that came with the release? is it a valid reader?

Last edited by hbk0259; November 20th, 2004 at 21:48.

**GiGaHeRz** · November 21st, 2004

oh.. I forgot to explain. The reader.dll is a wrapper dll that lets the program use the other plugins, as VisualBasic doesn't have function pointers.
You should keep the reader.dll there, and place your favorite plugins in the same folder.

__________________
"There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years)

The Book and other stories:
Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME!
MetaLife, Inc. (intro)
SubGaea (intro)
Crow Blade (intro for now)
Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts.

My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho.
For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

Liquid_Snake · November 23rd, 2004

Strange, but new version doesn't work with non PS2 isos: I tried to make custom vcd from 1 file with virtual drive, v03 works with it and v05 detects last sector as -1, even if I try to enter it manually.
And about adding sound setection functions to your program: will they work as slow as cube media player's do?

**GiGaHeRz** · November 23rd, 2004

That's weird. Did it work with B04? I can send you the last B04 exe if you want to try. And did you try with other discs? Maybe it doesn't work with the custom vcd you are trying.

There is a problem with sound detection: there is no standard format in the ps2 (AFAIK). I would like to add 'common' formats, but I don't know the file formats (info will help that).

EDIT: forgot to say that the audio data is usually compressed using XA ADPCM, but knowing the compression format doesn't help, because I need either a file header (some unique bytes at the start of the file) that contains the length, or a header and an an "ender".

__________________
"There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years)

The Book and other stories:
Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME!
MetaLife, Inc. (intro)
SubGaea (intro)
Crow Blade (intro for now)
Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts.

My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho.
For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

Last edited by GiGaHeRz; November 23rd, 2004 at 03:57.

neveragain · December 1st, 2004

When I use the program on some games (MetalGearSolid3 and Grandia2 are the ones it has happened with) the video comes out OK for the most part, but it gets a bit glitchy here and there. I was wondering what players/codecs you use to watch them properly(if that's the case) and I think I used an older version of the program so I'll see if that makes any difference. Keep up the good work!

yair23 · December 2nd, 2004

try getting the mega codec pack ... from this site :

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm

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chocobo2k · December 2nd, 2004

I have done the same thing with metal gear 3 yeah I already have Mega Pack codecs but stil get ONLY videos with no audio and there is glitches, I am still not sure about the colors but i will check them later. The program is fantastic but you need to configure the CDVD plugin to READ A HEAD ( FAST READ ) with 4Mb cache checked or the program will make you sleep while searching but still too good except the sound problem because I dont know what to do to get the sound. Another thing is that i really wanted the sound tracks from MGS3 not the videos because I have searched the net for them but could not find and I have tried MFAudio an it sucks all I hear is some crapy sound and noise. Please GigaHerz try to add audio support!
Some suggestions are adding Pause button, adding file sizes in MB,KB,byes is better than seeing 67877644

also if possible to arrange FMV list in size or name or something like that and keep up the good work

Liquid_Snake · December 6th, 2004

I found out that audio stream sometimes contains inside mpeg stream, so CubeMP detects both sound and video as false stream (instead of FMV extractor, it extracts them both as video stream so GLITCHES will appear(this is the answer to the previous post)). Sound is encoded in ADPCM. I just have a suggestion to add sound extraction function (its not important for pss because CubeMP already has this function but for this type of encoding). AFAIK VCD has the same encoding structure but not sound encoding.
P.S. GiGaHeRz check your private.

yair23 · December 20th, 2004

hey, what about a new version for the x-mas ? lol ..

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F-3582 · December 20th, 2004

LOL - did you know that you can't force an author to release anything (some people call this requesting, I know).

P.S.: j/k

- I just wanted to increase my post count by spamming this lovely thread.

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**GiGaHeRz** · December 20th, 2004

yair23: If I released the tool for xmas it wouldn't have any changes so there is no point in doing that

F-3582: No one is forcing me

Liquid_Snake: I read your post better, and noticed that you said that the tool extracts the audio as video, and that's not true. The tool extracts the data as it is on the disc. usually a collection of interleaved (multiplexed) streams. If there are glitches in the playback maybe because the decoder can't decode correctly the mpeg stream, or maybe my tool has problem extracting some sectors, but it's not converting the data, the tool extracts it like it's on disk.

__________________
"There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years)

The Book and other stories:
Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME!
MetaLife, Inc. (intro)
SubGaea (intro)
Crow Blade (intro for now)
Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts.

My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho.
For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

Velocity 7 · December 20th, 2004

I'm having the same problem as Liquid_Snake, except it's happening with Anubis: Zone of the Enders Special Edition and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Japanese and English versions). Though I'm not keen on the audio extracted as video theory, right now it's just having playback issues, and I have no idea how to solve it whatsoever. :S

Liquid_Snake · December 21st, 2004

Who says that it is not same as on a disk!? Its just the type of encoding same as VCD, but VCD between mpeg2 streams has ac3 audio, and here is ADPCM, so there is no players that can recognize this streams between mpeg2 as audio. As a result some players make gliches and some just skip "not video" bytes.

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October 29th, 2004	#81 (permalink)
Yeloazndevil Tsundere-chan Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 10,373	about time u release a new version __________________

November 1st, 2004	#83 (permalink)
neveragain Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: US Posts: 4	It's a good program, although... What I was really looking for is a Star Ocean 3 fmv extractor. Velocity 7 asked about this a while back, but he doesn't accept e-mail and hasn't been "active" for over a month. Just wondering if anyone else has had luck with SO3 movies (i.e.: perhaps finding a game-specific extractor?) or know if Velocity 7 got anywhere. Thanks.

November 2nd, 2004	#85 (permalink)
yair23 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 58	maybe you should get the cube media player and check the program for info ... __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2000 - 1677Mhz, 2X Samsung 256MB 333Mhz, Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB X4 AGP, WD 80GB HDD 8MB Cache, Windows XP Pro SP2, DirectX 9.0c

November 19th, 2004	#86 (permalink)
GiGaHeRz B( o Y o )BS! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 892	Beta 05 released. Read the first post for more info. Remember to comment any bugs you find! I can't fix them if I don't know they exist __________________ "There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years) The Book and other stories: Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME! MetaLife, Inc. (intro) SubGaea (intro) Crow Blade (intro for now) Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts. My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho. For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

November 20th, 2004	#87 (permalink)
yair23 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 58	man .. what took you so long ? JK __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2000 - 1677Mhz, 2X Samsung 256MB 333Mhz, Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB X4 AGP, WD 80GB HDD 8MB Cache, Windows XP Pro SP2, DirectX 9.0c

November 20th, 2004	#88 (permalink)
hbk0259 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 234	errr i think i just found a bug. the executable won't detect any cdvd plugin. i placed the plugin that came with the executable to the same folder with the executable. i also tried peops cdvd 1.1 and renamed it to reader.dll but still it wont detect the plugin one question: whats that cdvd plugin that came with the release? is it a valid reader? Last edited by hbk0259; November 20th, 2004 at 21:48.

November 21st, 2004	#89 (permalink)
GiGaHeRz B( o Y o )BS! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 892	oh.. I forgot to explain. The reader.dll is a wrapper dll that lets the program use the other plugins, as VisualBasic doesn't have function pointers. You should keep the reader.dll there, and place your favorite plugins in the same folder. __________________ "There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years) The Book and other stories: Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME! MetaLife, Inc. (intro) SubGaea (intro) Crow Blade (intro for now) Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts. My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho. For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

November 23rd, 2004	#90 (permalink)
Liquid_Snake Spirit of communism Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine Posts: 175	Strange, but new version doesn't work with non PS2 isos: I tried to make custom vcd from 1 file with virtual drive, v03 works with it and v05 detects last sector as -1, even if I try to enter it manually. And about adding sound setection functions to your program: will they work as slow as cube media player's do?

November 23rd, 2004	#91 (permalink)
GiGaHeRz B( o Y o )BS! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 892	That's weird. Did it work with B04? I can send you the last B04 exe if you want to try. And did you try with other discs? Maybe it doesn't work with the custom vcd you are trying. There is a problem with sound detection: there is no standard format in the ps2 (AFAIK). I would like to add 'common' formats, but I don't know the file formats (info will help that). EDIT: forgot to say that the audio data is usually compressed using XA ADPCM, but knowing the compression format doesn't help, because I need either a file header (some unique bytes at the start of the file) that contains the length, or a header and an an "ender". __________________ "There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years) The Book and other stories: Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME! MetaLife, Inc. (intro) SubGaea (intro) Crow Blade (intro for now) Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts. My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho. For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command. Last edited by GiGaHeRz; November 23rd, 2004 at 03:57.

December 1st, 2004	#92 (permalink)
neveragain Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: US Posts: 4	When I use the program on some games (MetalGearSolid3 and Grandia2 are the ones it has happened with) the video comes out OK for the most part, but it gets a bit glitchy here and there. I was wondering what players/codecs you use to watch them properly(if that's the case) and I think I used an older version of the program so I'll see if that makes any difference. Keep up the good work!

December 2nd, 2004	#93 (permalink)
yair23 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 58	try getting the mega codec pack ... from this site : http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2000 - 1677Mhz, 2X Samsung 256MB 333Mhz, Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB X4 AGP, WD 80GB HDD 8MB Cache, Windows XP Pro SP2, DirectX 9.0c

December 2nd, 2004	#94 (permalink)
chocobo2k Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 7	I have done the same thing with metal gear 3 yeah I already have Mega Pack codecs but stil get ONLY videos with no audio and there is glitches, I am still not sure about the colors but i will check them later. The program is fantastic but you need to configure the CDVD plugin to READ A HEAD ( FAST READ ) with 4Mb cache checked or the program will make you sleep while searching but still too good except the sound problem because I dont know what to do to get the sound. Another thing is that i really wanted the sound tracks from MGS3 not the videos because I have searched the net for them but could not find and I have tried MFAudio an it sucks all I hear is some crapy sound and noise. Please GigaHerz try to add audio support! Some suggestions are adding Pause button, adding file sizes in MB,KB,byes is better than seeing 67877644 also if possible to arrange FMV list in size or name or something like that and keep up the good work

December 6th, 2004	#95 (permalink)
Liquid_Snake Spirit of communism Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine Posts: 175	I found out that audio stream sometimes contains inside mpeg stream, so CubeMP detects both sound and video as false stream (instead of FMV extractor, it extracts them both as video stream so GLITCHES will appear(this is the answer to the previous post)). Sound is encoded in ADPCM. I just have a suggestion to add sound extraction function (its not important for pss because CubeMP already has this function but for this type of encoding). AFAIK VCD has the same encoding structure but not sound encoding. P.S. GiGaHeRz check your private.

December 20th, 2004	#96 (permalink)
yair23 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Israel Posts: 58	hey, what about a new version for the x-mas ? lol .. __________________ AMD Athlon XP 2000 - 1677Mhz, 2X Samsung 256MB 333Mhz, Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB X4 AGP, WD 80GB HDD 8MB Cache, Windows XP Pro SP2, DirectX 9.0c

December 20th, 2004	#97 (permalink)
F-3582 Back to regular business Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: in Sachsen Posts: 3,246	LOL - did you know that you can't force an author to release anything (some people call this requesting, I know). P.S.: j/k - I just wanted to increase my post count by spamming this lovely thread. __________________ In a world without walls and fences - who needs Windows and Gates?

December 20th, 2004	#98 (permalink)
GiGaHeRz B( o Y o )BS! Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 892	yair23: If I released the tool for xmas it wouldn't have any changes so there is no point in doing that F-3582: No one is forcing me Liquid_Snake: I read your post better, and noticed that you said that the tool extracts the audio as video, and that's not true. The tool extracts the data as it is on the disc. usually a collection of interleaved (multiplexed) streams. If there are glitches in the playback maybe because the decoder can't decode correctly the mpeg stream, or maybe my tool has problem extracting some sectors, but it's not converting the data, the tool extracts it like it's on disk. __________________ "There's only one absolute truth in our world: shït happens." - Gigaherz (whoever decided "s-h-i-t" is a obscene word needs to grow up a few years) The Book and other stories: Tears of Fantasy - An Online Book... by ME! MetaLife, Inc. (intro) SubGaea (intro) Crow Blade (intro for now) Memories - Prayer from the fallen hearts. My weblog... not like if there was too much to read on it tho. For anyone interested, there's a mirc script which converts "/me 's" into " * nickname's whatever" and adds a nice "/my" command.

December 20th, 2004	#99 (permalink)
Velocity 7 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Your Computer Posts: 106	I'm having the same problem as Liquid_Snake, except it's happening with Anubis: Zone of the Enders Special Edition and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Japanese and English versions). Though I'm not keen on the audio extracted as video theory, right now it's just having playback issues, and I have no idea how to solve it whatsoever. :S

December 21st, 2004	#100 (permalink)
Liquid_Snake Spirit of communism Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Kharkiv, Ukraine Posts: 175	Who says that it is not same as on a disk!? Its just the type of encoding same as VCD, but VCD between mpeg2 streams has ac3 audio, and here is ADPCM, so there is no players that can recognize this streams between mpeg2 as audio. As a result some players make gliches and some just skip "not video" bytes.