[Request] Help with these 2 video files

I've got these 2 video files from a Saturn MPEG disc, one is a tour of WARP games offices and the other of D2's premier show. I've got no idea how to play them though, let alone convert them into another format. The best i can do is severely garbled video with no audio. Can anyone help out? I've got no experience with whatever weird MPEG format the Saturn used :dejection:

http://www.mediafire.com/?wz7j8c34gyjrusg
http://www.mediafire.com/?prdaepou5tssa6e

 

The only way to convert them is to upload them on Youtube and download them from there.

 

Nope, gives the same problem i had in the first place, garbled video and no audio



This format is just bizarre! :concern:

 

Strange format, GameCube .sfd videos sometimes can be played by vlc, but on Youtube they all become visible, so Saturn ones can't.

 

VGMToolbox report that those files are damaged, so i guess thats why.

Maybe scratched CD or something else.

 

Not damaged, ripped straight from working ISO files (which i can share if that helps). They work in SSF (only Saturn emulator i know capable of handling MPEG) but the videos played so slow it wasn't worth watching let alone trying to screen capture it.

 

I dont usually have problems demuxing SFD with VMGToolbox ... maybe bad official compression that anyway Saturn can handle, dont know.

 

You can try this sfd2mpeg converter, the official SEGA Dreamcast Movie Creator (which handles SFD files), and SWAT's SFD Toolpack. Vist DC-SWAT here.
Also reading this thread might help http://forums.ngemu.com/showthread.php?t=16125 .
There's also the Dreamcast Video Disc Suite by OverRide (uses the same main app as the links above but with ALL needed 3rd party tools and tutroials) that might help, try looking over @ UG for that.

 

Tried em all, no luck. SFD2MPEG is what gives out a garbled video same as uploading the SFD straight to YouTube, and the DC Movie Creator is for making SFD's, not converting them back, even if it was it didn't accept either of them. I think it's got something to do with how these were encoded for the Saturn, obviously they did it differently and all the SFD tools i've come across are designed for the Dreamcasts way of doing them.

 

Do you have the original disc?

Why not just play it in a Saturn and capture the video directly?

 

Because they're MPEG videos they'll only play in a Saturn with an MPEG card, and i don't have one. I could upload the ISO's for the discs if someone had a Saturn capable of playing them and would be willing to capture the videos. There's other stuff on them too covering the Dreamcasts unveiling, TGS'98, and a bunch of TV ads for upcoming games.

 

I own the original disc those videos are from. The Saturn uses a version of MPEG that the Dreamcast used although the very early Saturn stuff uses an early version of the codec. The later stuff should play with the cri-mpeg sofdec codec including the warp videos. The video is pretty cool but unless you understand Japanese you are missing a lot. Even better than the video on the discs was a documentary with Kenji Eno on Japanese TV about 10 or so years ago. He talked about his love with music and games as well as other stuff he was involved with.

 

I think i've got that one, Jounetsu Tariku right? I've got another show from around the same time where he participated in a round table discussion and a whole bunch of his Eno@home radio shows that were broadcast on TokyoFM, and i don't speak a word of Japanese :stupid: I just like to collect Eno stuff (D2 in particular), WARP was a pretty unique company run by a pretty unique guy (anyone who has the balls to punch a Sony executive in the face and trash the company at a Sony expo is a hero in my book :tongue

Anyway, i tried the CRI codec too and it didn't fare better, maybe i did rip the files out the ISO wrong although i don't see how? I've uploaded both discs anyway, i'll open a new thread for them so people can see them easier.