How to rip PS2 FMV files - Step by Step Guide.

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:07 pm

Other than PSSPlex, I prefer PSS_Demux by fao.

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:15 am

how do you guys surf those sites that are in jap?or chinese symbols? i always go to links but i only see symbols, besides like if i wanted to download something then i can see the name of the program im downloading in english but thats it...

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:57 pm

The14thGOD wrote:how do you guys surf those sites that are in jap?or chinese symbols?

First of all, they're japanese- not chinese symbols.

Second of all, I find that question pretty silly.

This is like asking: How do we communicate in these forums?

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 6:32 pm

AMVfreak wrote:
The14thGOD wrote:how do you guys surf those sites that are in jap?or chinese symbols?
First of all, they're japanese- not chinese symbols.

Second of all, I find that question pretty silly.
This is like asking: How do we communicate in these forums?

that doens't help me...
are you assuming everyone can read japanese?
and i thought there was something you could download to convert the japanese to english or something...

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:01 pm

The14thGOD wrote:that doens't help me...
are you assuming everyone can read japanese?
and i thought there was something you could download to convert the japanese to english or something...

No, that's not what I'm saying.

how do you guys surf those sites that are in jap?or chinese symbols?

I found the question somewhat wacked out, as I thought it would be obivous that you need to know a language to understand a language.

However, you've made a good point here that I've lacked to mention:

You wrote:and i thought there was something you could download to convert the japanese to english or something...

Babelfish can help translate, although I won't say it always does a good job.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
Enter the URL of the page you want to translate(in this case, http://www.project-fao.org/ ) and Choose Japanese to English, and it should translate the page for you. (And from what I've seen, surprisingly pretty well, too.)

Fial · Post by **Fial** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:27 pm

I've come across another problem (I've only read through a few pages, I kinda gave up searching after a while

) but anyway, this sort of goes back to my thread. Using MagicISO, I searched and found about 20 different mpg files on Resident Evil: Code Veronica. When using Nova, I found many more, but when I changed their extensions to .pss and tried using PSS Plex to convert them to M2V, I keep getting a variety of errors, including missing mpeg1 streams and invalid sound files (those aren't the exact error messages, I don't remember what they said precisely), so does this mean I did something wrong or I simply can't convert every single movie file for one reason or another? If you read my other thread, I'm trying to find Steve Burnside fmvs for a vid, but when I scanned on MagicISO I didn't find any.

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:39 pm

Fial wrote:I keep getting a variety of errors, including missing mpeg1 streams and invalid sound files (those aren't the exact error messages, I don't remember what they said precisely), so does this mean I did something wrong or I simply can't convert every single movie file for one reason or another? If you read my other thread, I'm trying to find Steve Burnside fmvs for a vid, but when I scanned on MagicISO I didn't find any.

Mpeg1?
What happens, if say, you play the .mpg file extracted from Nova?

Fial · Post by **Fial** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:26 pm

Then the movie file plays normally, but I'm trying to crop parts out for the video so I need to go through the whole process of converting into .pss, .avi, etc.

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:35 pm

Fial wrote:Then the movie file plays normally

Thought so. If there is a MPEG1 Stream present in the PS2 disc, the PSS file procedure can be skipped.

Run the .mpg files through avisynth and do all the pre-processing you want.
Cropping: http://www.avisynth.org/Crop
Then, go about from here to what you want to do now: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... getb3.html

Fial · Post by **Fial** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:05 pm

Hmm...I keep finding new problems, sorry for all the questions -_-;.

Ok well, the first time I split the file, I didn't customize it to 1 GB; I did the normal Floppy Disk size and got many files from that. Now, when I scanned all those files, I found A LOT of different mpg files; when I scanned the 2 files I got when I customized it to 1 GB, I didn't get as many mpg files at all.

Going back to when I split the files into Floppy Disk sized pieces, when I tried to play those in Windows Media Player, I got an error message saying it cannot play the file because it doesn't support it or doesn't have the codec available. It's still an mpg though...so what's the problem?