This may seem like a pointless question to anyone who's familiar with emulation, but have you guys had a look around at
Zophar's Domain for things like movie rippers? (Note to anyone concerned: the site has no commercial ROMs or BIOS, everything on the site is legal) A few years back, I spent some time working on some music videos using Final Fantasy 9 and Chrono Cross footage and the site had pretty much everything I needed to rip movies or audio from those discs. If you do happen to find something, you should contact one of the mods/admins, that sort of tool seems a good candidate for the site. I wouldn't mind ripping the videos from my copy either.
Come to think of it... Doesn't WCNews already have some rips from WC3? News scenes or something. Lemme check on that.
Edit: There are indeed PSX ripped video files, they're just in nasty realmedia format
Edit again:
Don said:
I think absolutley NOT. Not that i do not know why exactley...
Keep in mind Playstation is the product of a Japanese market place so games of the eastern hemisphere will most likely not work on machines that are encoded differently to read and execute batches of data that supposed to work on one system ONLY. (See PAL, NTSC, SECOM etc.)
Ive heard of such wild tests from people, but now that you mention it I may as well give it a go
No offense, but what are you talking about? The PSX was indeed designed and marketed in Japan. If I'm not mistaken it sold better (compared to how well other systems at the time sold) in the US due to Nintendo/SEGA loyalty in Japan, but I could be completely wrong about that. Regardless of that, you mention that "games of the eastern hemisphere will most likely not work on machines that are encoded differently to work read and execute batches of data that supposed to work on one system ONLY" Assuming I understand what you're saying (which I'm not sure I do), you're saying that Wing Commander III PSX version is a "game of the eastern hemisphere." According to the GameFAQs listing for the game, it was released last in Japan.
You then mention PAL, NTSC etc. which I'm not sure have anything to do with anything in this situation. Modern computers with the correct software can play any format with little error or work. What you may be trying to say is that due to the obvious differences between the compilation of PC/Mac software and PSX format, the video should be similarly unusable. That's simply not the case. All digital video is composed of still images. Depending on whether it's packed with a lossless or lossy codec, there may be a more or less of these images. Lossy Codecs (what WC3 is probably packed in) rely on the system's hardware to interpolate images but allow for a smaller filesize. These images are packed into a container along with an audio file if there's sound. So when you open up an AVI or put a DVD in your player, the process is essentially the same. What this means is to get the videos off of a playstation disc you only need to be able to find the video files and find/make something to tranfer the video from whatever format its been compressed into something usable. (Note: it's been a while since I really thought about a lot of this stuff, so some of it may not be perfectly accurate)
Speaking of which, Confed, what are you planning on doing with the FMVs? If you're thinking about a movie or music video project, you ought to send me a PM, I could probably help you out with any other problems you run into or at least find you someone that would be able to.