Ceddy's PSX Movie Page

Ceddy's PSX Movie Page

I'm creating this page for people who want to put movies on a CD and play them on their Mod chipped Playstation. With all the different formats involved this a lot harder than it sounds. I'm using a program created by a spanish fellow who's name I don't know, but I would like to thank. Here are some instructions in spanish. And here is the video player. I also have another movie player by Vince Diesi that includes source code and can handle different resolutions up to 640x240.

Update: This is the old Movie Player you find around the net a lot. I have a new Movie Player programmed by me that supports multiple resolutions from 256x240 -> 640x240. It also makes the creation process a lot easier, just copy your STRs and run one .BAT file. If you want it its here -> PiMP.

All the files you will need are at the bottom of this page

Questions or comments e-mail me ceddy@ceddy.zzn.com If you have questions about movies please use the Message Board.

1) Unzip the psx movie program. The VIDEO folder contains the STR files. The ICON folder contains the TIM files. You must replace these files with your own.

2) Convert a movie file you have to an uncompressed AVI file 320x240, 15 fps, 24-bit color, Stereo 16-bit sound @ 44100 Hz. Use VDub or a similar program. Warning this file will be very big!

Update: To avoid video and audio from going out of sync make your AVI file Stereo 16-bit sound @ 44100 Hz, then when converting to STR select 37.8 KHz Stereo and select Leap Sector. This should fix all audio sync problems.

3) Use MovTools to convert the AVI file to a STR file. (Select Sound: 37.8 KHz, Stereo; Easy: Double Speed, 15 fps, 1ch, Leap Sector; MDEC: version 2)

4) Using PhotoShop with the TIM plug-in, make a 64x48x16-bit TIM picture file thats represents your movie.

5) Repeat 2-4 four more times naming the files 1.STR, 2.STR, 3.STR, 4.STR, 5.STR and 1.TIM, 2.TIM, 3.TIM, 4.TIM, 5.TIM . Place them in the VIDEO and ICON folders.

Update: You can also make you own background, which is the file ALBUM.TIM. It should be 320x200x16-bit.

6) Now comes the hard part, making a licensed cd image. If you can figure it out use Sony's CdGen its in cdtools.zip . Save as ccs from CdGen called say movie.ccs, then run on DOS command line ccs2cti.exe movie.ccs movie.cti . This will create a cti file which you can use with buildcd.exe .

Update: For people who find CdGen hard to use I have my .cti file here --> moviecti.zip You'll have to go in with a text editor and change the file paths to match yours.

7) On the command line run buildcd.exe -zus movie.cti -imovie.img This will create a Cd image.

Update: -zus will create an United States(us) licenced image, Use -zeu for Europe and -zjp for Japan. Also you can leave -z out and license later with BootEdit.

8) Then run stripiso s 2352 movie.img movie.bin

9) Now run BinChunker on movie.bin to create movie.iso

Update: You will need a .cue file to run BinChinker. Simply copy this to a text file called movie.cue --->
FILE "Movie.bin" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE2/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00

10) And finally run BootEdit on movie.iso to license the Cd.

Update: Select Don't license cd image. Since you already licenced it with buildcd.exe -z Add any TMD file and text you want.

11) Burn a Cd using Cd Creator, pop it in your psx and watch some movies.

If you have questions about movies please use the Message Board.

Files you will need:
player2.zip - PSX movie player
movie.zip - Another PSX movie player w/ PysQ source, but won't compile
movtoolsv3.zip - Sony movie tools convert AVI to STR
timplug.zip - TIM plug-in for PhotoShop
cdtools.zip - PSX Cd tools contains buildcd, stripiso, ccs2cti, CdGen, etc.
biNr.zip - BinChunker converts .bin to .iso
bootedit2.zip - License psx .iso
VirtualDub-1_4c.zip - Good video editing program
moviecti.zip - Example CTI file