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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.

edited 3:52 PM EST December 2, 2010
by headerless at 9:19 PM EST on December 2, 2010
iirc hcs was going to look into getting better compatibility with ffmpeg, don't know if it ever got anywhere though
by manakoAT at 6:07 AM EST on December 3, 2010
demux_sfd

Hope it helps.
by hcs at 9:50 AM EST on December 3, 2010
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.
by PabloACZ at 1:41 PM EST on December 3, 2010
@manakoAT: no luck, same result, but thanks anyway.



edited 1:47 PM EST December 3, 2010
by PabloACZ at 9:39 PM EST on December 4, 2010
Well, I got it using Dolphin and CamStudio. Not the same thing, but at least it's something, :P.

I hope more research regarding these Sofdec v2 videos is done in the future, but right now I think I'm gonna stick with emulators.

edited 9:45 PM EST December 4, 2010
by PabloACZ at 12:04 PM EST on December 11, 2010
BTW, does anyone know where to get a mirror of the free version of the CRIWARE SDK that was released in 2008?

The page is now dead (www.cri-tools.com).
by headerless at 3:38 PM EST on December 11, 2010
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahcs64.com+cri+tools
by PabloACZ at 4:12 PM EST on December 11, 2010
Thanks, but I already downloaded the CRI ADX Tools by MichaSDL, :I.

I'm talking about the CRI Movie SDK.
by headerless at 4:40 PM EST on December 11, 2010
And you are 100% sure that the CRI SDK was released for free in 2008?

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