Please: I need help on ripping PS2 Movie Files

[Shiki]

Mine is the US version (Guilty Gear X2) so it might be a bit different.

There's a file on the disc named "MOVIE_A.PCK". I can open the file directly with DVD2AVI and it works. It's 2 MPEG-2 movie streams joined together.

[Cyber Akuma]

Well, turns out nearly any mpeg program can play the video, but thats useless to me without the audio as well.

[FreeFighter]

Found this site http://www.thelostworlds.net/LoK-Extract.HTML

The RAD Video Tools can play the video files (movie3.dat and movie4.dat). There is no known way to extract the static graphics.

[Cyber Akuma]

I highly doubt thatll work

There used to be a movie format that ended in .dat, ps2 games (usually konami games) ARENT like that. Again, just because a file ends in a certain extention dosent not mean that thats the filetype. I know that a lot of the games Konami makes (ZOE1, ZOE2, MGS2, etc) that have their movies are stored ALL in one big .DAT file, usually movies.DAT. I heard this filetype is called a munge file and that it contains all the PSS files in it. I have once used a program for ZOE1 that could extract the PSS files, and it worked, but the PSS files were unreadable >.<

It was obviously meant just to remove PSS files and repalace them with dummies so you could rip it to a CDR. Useless to me since I own the original game and want to read the movies themselves off the disk.

[FreeFighter]

So i guess Quicktime wont do any good either

Or this site http://www.vcdgear.com/index.html

[FreeFighter]

Originally Posted by Cyber Akuma

2. Guilty Gear XX. First time ive seen this, all the movie files are just bunched up into one movies.PAK file.

Maybe PakExplorer v1.2 might help http://quakestuff.telefragged.com/. Also this new PS2 Movie Player v1.5 is nice. To bad the sound isn't working on all movies

[Cyber Akuma]

Something tells me that ps2 movie .pak files are different then quake format .pak files...

[MrMann]

I found this forum along with another related to Guilty Gear XX when I was trying to find similar information (except the other was for the Music files). And it turns out you have to do a lot of manual stuff to get what you want. I'm a rookie at this kind of thing, but I'll try my best to explain how to do it. There's a chance you already have the solution, Cyber Akuma, but I'll post anyway just in case. My version of Guilty Gear XX (PS2) is the US version and has the MOVIE_A.PCK as well. For those interested, my theory on how these .PCK files work will be at the end.

Here are the programs I used:

Video Related:
DGMPGDec (http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec.html , related to DVD2AVI)
AviSynth 2.5
VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org/)

Audio Related:
MFAudio v1.1 (Search on Google with mfaudio 1.1 to find it)
Cool Edit Pro
An Audio Encoding tool (LAME, OGG, whatever)

With this how-to, I'm going to assume that people already know how to edit the Movie and Audio files and encode or mux everything together. And if you have other alternatives to the Audio/Video editing programs I used, go ahead and use them. Okay, use DGMPGDec to create a .D2V file and use AviSynth 2.5 to frameserve it into VirtualDub. Edit the video the way you want. I deleted whatever frames I wanted to get the Opening, later I reopened the file to get the Extra video and again to get the Company Logos. Don't forget to delete the corrupted frames (twitching frames, might actually be the Audio data being read wrong). At this point, I encoded the videos after editing them. For those that don't know, you can always add in the Audio later with VirtualDub.

Next, I used MFAudio and opened the MOVIE_A.PCK file with it. I was lucky when I tried this, it was only a guess that MFAudio would work the same way it did on the MUSIC.PCK file. Here are the settings I used in MFAudio:

File Format: RAW - Raw Sound Data - Uncompressed PCM
Frequency: 48000 Hz
Samples: 16 bits
Channels: 2
Interleave: 200 Bytes
Offset: 0 Bytes

I didn't bother with trying to figure out the offset to cut off a few MBs. After all, I was just trying it to see if it worked. After that, I saved as the File Format, WAV - Microsoft RIFF - Uncompressed PCM. The Audio file will be the same size as the MOVIE_A.PCK (about 383MB), so beware. Don't play the Audio when you try it with MFAudio, you'll just get a ear-piercing sound. If you do listen to it, turn down the volume to almost nothing on your speakers.

Now that you have a .WAV file, open it with your favorite Audio editor. I used Cool Edit Pro, which plays the file automatically after scanning it. Remember to turn the volume down if you have it set the same way. Anyways, as you can see from the graph, there's Audio in there. Just select/highlight what you want, Paste New, and save as a WAV file; or delete whatever you don't want and Save as Copy of what's left as a WAV file. Make sure to keep as much of the playable beginning and end of the audio as you can get.

Now you have the Audio. Try it with the Video and see if they sync the way you want it too. They should if you kept the whole segment of the playable Audio. Then encode the WAV whatever way you want. Put the Video and Audio together, and you're done. For those that don't know how to do certain things, sites like http://www.doom9.org can help you.

From what I've seen in Guilty Gear XX, the .PCK files are like a folder with a bunch of files in it. Here's an example, let's say we have 3 Movie files (MovieA, MovieB, MovieC) along with 3 Audio files (AudioA, AudioB, AudioC) that go with each movie. Here's the order that they go in the .PCK file:

MovieA.m2v
AudioA.wav
MovieB.m2v
AudioB.wav
MovieC.m2v
AudioC.wav

The file types are just my guesses. When you try to play these videos, you might notice corruption or freezing. This may be due to the Video playback program trying to play the audio as video.

I haven't tried Zone of the Enders 1 and 2, yet. But it was actually something I was going to try. I might post back with results, seeing as this is an old topic. And just for the heck of it, Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven has 4 .PSS files that are actually just renamed to .BIN in the BIN folder; it's the last 4 files (2 Company, 2 Game related); IM.BIN and IS.BIN are the Music files, probably Monaural and Stereo, respectively. Use a program like PSS Demux to get out the Audio and Video files.

[Cyber Akuma]

Thank you for that guide, but it appears that I have to do an extreme amount of manual work in order to extract the data. You said that I not only have to extract the video though a conversation method, but personally remove the bad frames myself. Considering that a video can have hundreds of thousands of frames... how do you expect me to do this by hand?

Also, I would have to guess where to cut off the video and audio, this leads to a great deal of chance of the audio being out of sync with the video.

Is there any way to extract the video and audio data instead of manually encoding it out of the pak file?

[MrMann]

Is there any way to extract the video and audio data instead of manually encoding it out of the pak file?

Unfortunately, I do not of any way. My guess is that once those PS2 Emulators are finished, a PS2 FMV extractor will exist around the same time. You may even want to watch out for this program: GiGaHeRz's FMV Search & Extract Tool - Beta 01

And if you know how to Hex Edit, you can probably do it that way, I don't know how to Hex Edit.

Thank you for that guide, but it appears that I have to do an extreme amount of manual work in order to extract the data. You said that I not only have to extract the video though a conversation method, but personally remove the bad frames myself. Considering that a video can have hundreds of thousands of frames... how do you expect me to do this by hand?

Also, I would have to guess where to cut off the video and audio, this leads to a great deal of chance of the audio being out of sync with the video.

You're welcome. And about extracting the video through a conversation method, I relate it to DVD Backup/DVD-Rip folks. They frameserve the source video so that they don't have to worry about a gigantic AVI file. So I figured it was okay to edit the video file. And it seems that I forgot the MPG encoding folks in the little guide I made. I don't know much about that kind of stuff, but there should be some video editing programs for MPG.

About removing the bad frames, that should be easy only if you don't mind separating things as I have done. Like keeping the opening and extra video separate. And that theory of mine of how the .PCK files work came from editing the video and seeing the actual audio graphs. You can see for yourself if you try it. And if you're only after the opening and extra video, the editing should be easy. Have the game on so you can check back and forth to see how the videos begin and end. First, the opening: if you're using VirtualDub, just drag along to the end, which is around 50 seconds. You can pretty much tell when it ends. After it ends, go to the next frame and "Set selection start" ("Edit" menu); then go to the very end and "Set selection end". Then delete. Now you have the opening video. The Extra video is slightly more difficult, the concept is sort of the same. Go to the very beginning and "Set selection start". After the Company Logos, go to the last of the flickering picture, then go to the next blank frame and "Set selection end". Delete. The end doesn't really matter, just delete everything after the video. Now you have the Extra video. There's a chance you can "Start frame server..." (File menu) and let it work with an MPG video program, I don't know, I haven't tested it.

After everything, I have the videos all together. I never got them out of sync, though at one time, I thought I did with (May talking scene), but I forgot that's how the Japanese do Anime talking.

I'm very much a rookie/amateur at video editing, so that explains my explanation. And remember to check with how the videos look when you play them on your PS2. If you're using an Audio Editing program, remember to zoom in to accurately delete or select what you want. There's a chance I left something out, so you might have to ask or figure them out yourself. Good luck!

And about ZOE1, I got the FMVs, but the audio is screwed up for me. I used MFAudio, but the audio never ends. The FMVs are okay. I used the Nova Software Extractor method (Emuforums - schattenberg88). Or you can Hex Edit (Alternative Universe - Ryu). Unfortunately, there is nothing but PSS files in ZOE file. Go after the big ones or the ones with a resolution (in Nova).

About the Tenchu 3 FMVs, they are interlaced, at least the US version, anyway.