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

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

Post by Castor Troy » Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:59 am

How to rip PS2 FMV/PSS files.

PS2 game FMVs are encoded on the disc as PSS files. Some programs can easily find them but for games like Final Fantasy X and X-2, they are hidden. This guide should help you rip footage that is hidden.

Programs you need:

DVD Decrypter
PSS Plex
The file splitter
Nova software extractor
MF Audio
DVD2AVI

Virtualdub (Divx/Xvid encoding)
Tmpegenc (MPEG encoding)


Step 1: Ripping the PS2 Disc
Put in your PS2 disc into your DVD-ROM/DVD Burner then run DVD Decrypter. Go to "Mode", then "ISO" and choose "Read". Then rip it to your hard drive by choosing "file" > "Decrypt". You should now have a large PS2 game ISO on your hard drive.

Step 2: Splitting the ISO
Open up The File Splitter and under "File to split", choose your PS2 game ISO. Select the folder on your hard drive you want the split files to be for "Folder for pieces". Then under "Size of Pieces", choose "Custom size". Make the custom size 1 GB and then choose "split" to split up the ISO.

Step 3: Extracting the PSS files
Now start up Nova software extractor and under "Files to scan", pres the "Select" button next to it and choose the split ISO files (They should end in a number). Under "Save extracted files to", press the "Select" button next to it to select the directory you want to store the extracted files in. Then under "Formats", choose "MPG". Press "Start" to begin scanning the split ISOs. The scanning process may take a while but it will show you the movies that you can extract from the game. Once the scanning process is done, select each of the mpg files, click on "properties" and change the mpg extension to pss. When you are finished, press "extract" to extract the pss files to your hard drive.

Step 4: Coverting the PSS files to MPEG2
Open up PSS Plex, choose "Demultiplex", then under "Select PSS source file", open up any of your newly made PSS files. Choose the directories you want the save the MPEG2 stream under and then click "start" to save it. Ignore the wav file it creates here because it will be distorted. Your MPEG2 stream should be saved as an m2v file.

Optional step: Getting the sound

Now that you have the footage, you can also get the sound if you want to watch the movie file on your computer. However, if you just want the movie file, then skip over to Step 5.

Start up MFAudio and click "open" and choose the pss file you want to extract the sound from. You can press "play" to see if it's the one you want. Click "save as" to set the directory you want the wav file saved to then click "process to save the wav.

Step 5: Converting the MPEG2 stream to avi
Open up DVD2AVI and select the m2v file then choose "save avi" and choose the codec you want to save it under (huffy preffered" then press ok.

Now you should have a large, yet fully working PS2 avi for video use.

If you want to attach the audio back to the movie, you can use virtualdub. Open the avi in virtualdub, then under "audio" select "wav audio" and the wav you extracted earlier then the audio should be back with the movie. If you want to encode it into mpeg with Tmpegenc, you can load the m2v file for the video stream and the wav for the audio stream. You can encode the movie into whatever you want from this point or use it for a video.

I hope that helps and any other suggestions, changes, comments, etc.. are gladly appreciated.
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Post by Castor Troy » Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:12 pm

Oh yeah, you don't really need to convert the m2v stream into avi, you can also use Avisynth to avoid having a large avi file on your comp.
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Post by Corran » Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:12 pm

Hey, very nice post. Do you mind if I add this to our site's guide(We just started it which is why it is so bare.)? I'll give you full credit.

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Post by Castor Troy » Sat Feb 07, 2004 5:35 pm

Sure, go ahead :)
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Post by varxtis » Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:10 pm

HUGS FOR CASTRO... RIGHT HERE... LOL
Mad Props man! I pray I'll be as knowledgable as you some day

T_T *tears of happiness*

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Post by varxtis » Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:47 pm

Hey castro... just one quick question...
If the video (credits intro) doesn't show up... does that mean there is NO way to extract it besides a capture card?

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Post by Castor Troy » Sat Feb 07, 2004 11:14 pm

mitsukai212 wrote:Hey castro... just one quick question...
If the video (credits intro) doesn't show up... does that mean there is NO way to extract it besides a capture card?
Nope, gotta get a capture card.

If it's not a pss, it's not extractable.

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Post by LightningCountX » Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:14 am

::up::

ive been waiting for somebody to be smart enough and publish a ps2 ripping guide. You did a pretty good job with it to Castor :D

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Post by BigDude » Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:24 am

I found you could just entirely skip step 4... and instead, in step 3, rename the extention to .m2v or even .vob. Then proceed with step 5.

I dont know if its too smart to be doing that, but it saves time... especially if you dont care to get the audio.


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Post by Castor Troy » Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:32 am

BigDude wrote:I found you could just entirely skip step 4... and instead, in step 3, rename the extention to .m2v or even .vob. Then proceed with step 5.

I dont know if its too smart to be doing that, but it saves time... especially if you dont care to get the audio.


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Hmmm, that's definitely more convenient. Thanks for the info. :)

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