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Has anyone ever come up with a way to successfully extract video from 3DO discs?

I'm currently looking at my Night Trap disc after dumping it with that operaFS deal and I see a large .bin file and from what I can gather from it, it must be the video container, yet I can't get anything to pick up on video from it, virtual dub fails miserably, vlc opens it but doesn't seem to be able to make heads or tails out of it.

Is there anything out there that can disect and view/convert the video streams ?

The closest I've come is pulling clean audio out of some. There are multiple kinda of video encoding that the 3DO supports. FFmpeg did give me a little success with video but the picture was messed up with horrible audio. I do not recall what format I was trying to rip. If you are familiar with FFmpeg you should start there.

Most of what I have seen used is Cinepak, but I couldn't find the appropraitely old enough codec. Extracting is no problem, playing it another. But yeah, there are others.

Maybe a player/plugin can be put together with code from the freedo source? I am not good with this kind of stuff so I don't really know but I know it's probably possible.

or you can take a digital camera point it at the TV and then when the videos come up press record that way it will look like my youtube videos

Lemmi wrote:or you can take a digital camera point it at the TV and then when the videos come up press record that way it will look like my youtube videos

Rather than this, I would humbly suggest getting a hold of an old TV video input card and recording captured video directly to .avi on your computer. It's not the perfect solution, but it would be clean.

Lemmi wrote:or you can take a digital camera point it at the TV and then when the videos come up press record that way it will look like my youtube videos

Sometimes that does work out okay.

Btw, what vids have you done? Link us up!

sorry DapOrp for derailing your thread


heh, i think they all have been posted here at one time
no idea if this link will work, but here they are
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?sf=added&sa=1
heh all uploaded in 2007 and 2008 and its still the only way i can get videos on youtube

Lemmi wrote:or you can take a digital camera point it at the TV and then when the videos come up press record that way it will look like my youtube videos

*Slaps you on the back of the head.*

Lemmi wrote:sorry DapOrp for derailing your thread


heh, i think they all have been posted here at one time
no idea if this link will work, but here they are
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?sf=added&sa=1
heh all uploaded in 2007 and 2008 and its still the only way i can get videos on youtube

I was just about ban request you for pinching all my videos. Then I realised they were my videos, and that link will only ever point to 'your own' videos.

Lemmi, what's your youtube username?

3DOKid wrote:I was just about ban request you for pinching all my videos. Then I realised they were my videos, and that link will only ever point to 'your own' videos.

Lemmi, what's your youtube username?

BruninGee
nothing to see except crappy videos
i havent uploaded anything new in 2 years .. lol