{"id":606,"date":"2008-09-16T21:26:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T04:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/metal-gear-vp3\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T04:26:58","slug":"metal-gear-vp3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/metal-gear-vp3\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Gear VP3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reimar and I were poking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobygames.com\/game\/gamecube\/metal-gear-solid-the-twin-snakes\">Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes<\/a> again. You may recall my post about <a href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/solid-snake-oggs\/\">MGS using Ogg Vorbis for audio<\/a>. In addition to the vox.dat file, there is another resource file called movie.dat. I don&#8217;t know why I wasn&#8217;t too interested in this file before; maybe because I didn&#8217;t remember any pre-rendered FMV in MGS (it is primarily real-time rendered). But when I really think about it, I remember there was a small number of ponderous cut scenes that used some regular film-type material.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/extractor-gtk\">Reimar&#8217;s Extractor-GTK tool<\/a> makes short work of both the vox.dat and movie.dat resource archives. Guess what Reimar noticed in certain files living inside movie.dat? The signature &#8217;13PV&#8217;, or VP31 backwards. So you know the drill: <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.multimedia.cx\/index.php?title=Metal_Gear_Solid_VP3\">Wiki page<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/samples.mplayerhq.hu\/game-formats\/mgs1-vp3\/\">samples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The data at the start of the file definitely looks like VP31 (e.g., the bytes starting with hex 32 00 08 in mgs1-40.bin). The files are probably pure video (audio and subtitles are stored elsewhere). It is currently unknown how frames are split up in the file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reimar and I were poking at Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes again. You may recall my post about MGS using Ogg Vorbis for audio. In addition to the vox.dat file, there is another resource file called movie.dat. I don&#8217;t know why I wasn&#8217;t too interested in this file before; maybe because I didn&#8217;t remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-hacking","category-vp3theora"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}