Hi People
Does anyone know where I can get the PDO FMV’s? It’s just I was thinking of doing a video.
Thanks
MODCHIP REQUIRED
Simply take your Xbox PDO disc and put it in your Xbox and then run BOXPLORER to extract the contents to the hard drive. Once the game is on the hard drive, FTP the contents over to your PC. The movie files will need to be converted from their default format so they can be played on the computer. All the tools you need can be found at xbox-scene.com
Yeah, Without having to do that. 
rofl.
A simpler method would be a capture card, but I guess you don’t have one of those.
If you’re asking of a method of reading the disc from your PC’s DVD drive and then ripping the footage and converting them into a different format like for PS1 and PS2 (?), I don’t know as the only methods possible so far is the mod chip and capture card. There was a guide to do that in AMV.org, but unfortunately thats only for PS1 and PS2 I think. I’ve finished my vids but i’m scared of copyright issues. Just so you know, Anime Music Videos and Game MV’s have no protection under the “fair use” concept under U.S. copyright law. Even though no one has ever been sued for sharing an AMV. My vids aren’t MV’s btw and are protected under the fair use concept, the only issue is that of the music used in them. I’ve researched it, there is no legal way to use music you don’t hold copyright to in a game video (MV or otherwise)… again I am not saying the IRAA will target people who make game videos, or that the server which hosts the files will remove them and revoke your hosting abilities, it’s just that i’ve been thinking about this alot lately.
unless your video is so popular that it causes 200GB of traffic in 5 hours… like my genos trailer did =D
thanks to heaven I had a nobrainer as host in those days, he didn’t notice
nice http://www.streamload.com/giga_d/XBOX_LIVE/PICS/smilie.GIF I remember lots of people have mentioned if your pulling alot of bandwidth, chances are the ‘free’ hosting companies aren’t making a profit off of you and will shut you down while giving you a bull reason of copyright infrignment.
From researching this I came across a quote which refers to this:
[quote]Second, it all comes down to freely available copyright law. You should have known what you were getting into when you started making AMVs.
If you didn’t know, it’s your fault, and nobody’s going to pity you for losing your hosting.
When you choose a web-space provider, you agree to their terms and conditions. They are a private entity, and therefore not only have to abide by federal copyright law, but are also allowed to do whatever the hell they want with their property.
You are storing your data on their property. If they sense it as a threat, they will do whatever they can do to remove that threat, and it is fully within their rights to do so.
Don’t like it? Too bad. Go set up your own server, or find somebody more willing to host illegal video files.[/quote]
The last thing I want is to have something like this happen on my own server that you pay to have space and access to, and it doesn’t matter if other sites host game videos which have copyrighted music in them (amv.org, fileplanet etc.), it doesn’t make you any safer from your host revoking your access, and it’s not like it isn’t infringing in the first place heheh so you don’t have a defence either way. I soppose you can try third party servers through a fan site or whatever which already host similar videos, but then you don’t really have control over them. For what I want to do I need to able to do that.
Actually, you can?t. Videos on PDO are encrypted. I?ve already downloaded PDO to my hdd, using a program to browse the iso i?ve extracted the videos, and tried to convert they to avi.
All videos are unencrypted (the videos from PD, PDZ, and the video of the eye of the dragon). The 3 videos of the game itself (opening, middle and end) are definitively encrypted.
So, only with a capture card you could do that…
partly encrypted.
you just need tmpegenc to demux the video and audio stream.
the videostream however has a strange color problem it looks like the YUV space is interpreted as RGB, I guess you could use the softdec sdk to fix that if you can find it somewhere.
I?ve already did that.
Files named ins1_bs, ins2_bs and opening_bs are encripted.
op_plus & tgs_demover play fine.
About the color conversion, it will be easy to test if you are right… capturing one frame right now… 
A bit more investigation shields in the following results:
- None of the channels have a good quality. It seems that some information is missing.
- I?ve tested changing the order of the channels, swapping from rgb > yuv, yuv > rgb, rgb > hsl and hsl > rgb and always i?ve got the same: a blurry image without the correct colors.
Now… inside the movies folder, the three movies that didn?t display have a corresponding .aix file (ins1_bs.sfd, ins1_bs.aix). But… without the softcry sdk it will be hard to know the use of that files…
Images:
extremefx.com.ar/temp/tgs_demover.jpg
extremefx.com.ar/temp/ins1_bs.jpg
hm, could be some kind of simple copyprotectionn like macrovision? I know that in the end i just captured the videos, but I had to reorder the fields in a kinda complicated way to get a progressive output,
I like how an image I posted
streamload.com/giga_d/XBOX_L … drive2.jpg
is edited by the mod to just the url for “bandwidth” issues or whatever, and this isn’t heh. Not that I really care, but I thought was funny. Yes i’m nitpicking and I accept that. 
Just making sure that the forum layout doesn’t create the dreaded horizontal scroll bar in 800 by 600 resolutions 