CRI Sofdec Movie (SFD files) by PabloACZ at 3:02 PM EST on December 2, 2010
Has anyone made any progress with these files?
Tools like TMPGEnc Plus can demux them, but the video decoding isn't right (the ADX sound stream can be easily converted to WAV using VGMStream, so no problems with that). Most people in here might know that the end result is a very messy video, with blocky output.
Games like Sonic Colors, for example, use v1 and v2 SFD's. AFAIK, the v1 are the ones that can be played without problems, and yet most of the cinemas on the game can be played. The only ones that give problems are the opening movie and the SEGA logo, so those must be v2.
I've tried programs like sfd2mpg and even ffmpeg, with no luck.
So, does anyone know something about this? I know you're interested mostly on sound rips, and thought you guys might be the best at this, :I.
Thanks in advance for any response you could give me. If you want more info or need an example file, just tell me.
Sorry, I don't know what's up with that weird video. I can only assume CRI fudged the video format slightly. It may be only to raise some size limit, or it may be some change in the bitstream to unpack faster. In any case, I don't know enough about video to take a crack at it.