As the title says,here's a tutorial on how to make yourself a VCD for the PSone,eliminating the need for a DIY Movie Card or Gamars card (the big card that makes a 55xx-750x console have 100x RCA ports and VCD support). The tools to do this are posted down there. 1) Unzip Movie Converter. 2) Convert a movie file you have to an uncompressed AVI file 320x240, 15 fps, 24-bit color, Stereo 16-bit sound @ 44100 Hz. To do this use ffmpeg. Here's the commands you'll need to do at ff-prompt.bat. Video: ffmpeg -i <infile> -vcodec rawvideo -s 320x240 -r 15 -an <outfile> where infile means the input file,which is your average mp4 video or anything like that and outfile is the output file which MUST be .avi. Audio: ffmpeg -i <infile> -acodec pcm_s16le -vn <outfile> where infile is the video you used earlier and outfile is the output file which MUST be .wav. NOTE : For those commands to work,you MUST put the video file in the bin folder,because ffmpeg will look there and will abort if it can't find the video in there. 3) Now go to Movie Converter,and select the uncompressed AVI file you did at step 2 as the file you want to convert on the left side and select the output file as str (MDEC) in the right side.Then,press attributes,and you'll see a window which says "MDEC Parameters". There,check the Custom checkbox,and set the Maximum Frame Size to 8 sectors (because we are using a 15FPS video). 4) Still in Movie Converter,in the same converter window,select the WAV file you did at step 2,and select XA as the output file,then press Go.After it's done,we need to interleave the STR and XA files together.To do this,click on the View menu and click on the Video+Sound option.On the Vide File Name box, browse for the video-only str file you made and select str(MDEC) in the drop-down box just below it. On the Sound File box, browse for the xa file you made to go with the video and click the Go button. 5) Now that our interleaved str is done,go to the RAR file I made and unzip the ROSI folder in the root of C (should look like C:\ROSI),then go to where you unzipped it,and create a folder named MOVIECD. Copy your STR there,rename it to BADAPPLE.STR and extract the following files from the archive in that folder:MAIN.EXE,ZDUMMY.BIN and SYSTEM.CNF. 6)Open CMD,then go to the ROSI directory,and write this : makecd moviecd. You'll get a error from MakeCTI but you can safely ignore that.When all done,you should have a ISO named MOVIECD. 7)Run DiscPatcher3 to add the license information (SCEE,SCEA,SCEI) to the ISO. 8)Enjoy your hard work Link to the tools since archive is too big: http://www.fileshare.ro/e30811232(just press the big DOWNLOAD button) The only downside of this method is that since the STR doesn't loop after it ends you'll get a black screen. If anybody can fix this,feel free to do so. NOTE (also for admin) : The tools I included are not warez. They are used for a cheap and easier way to play VCDs. Please don't remove the link to the zip file.
I remember doing this trick years ago. The primary drawback is that you're limited to just 30 minutes of video, not to mention it's poorly compressed, and runs at 15FPS XD. Cool novelty, though. :3
Eh,for a small video it's enough. It saves you from having to search a Gamars card or a SCPH-5903 console. With some luck I think it can run 30FPS videos,but I haven't tested that yet.
You can achieve 29/30 FPS only in two ways: reduce quality to a swamp or halve the vertical resolution.
