sfd-muxer 0.1.1

CRI SofDec MPEG Program Stream multiplexer for PS2 cutscenes (.sfd)

SFD Muxer

Multiplexer/demultiplexer for the CRI SofDec PS2 cutscene container (.sfd).

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CRI SofDec is the streaming format used for video cutscenes in many PS2 / Dreamcast / GameCube games. It interleaves MPEG-1 video with CRI ADX audio in 0x800-byte sectors. Examples of games shipping .sfd cutscenes:

• Magna Carta: Tears of Blood
• Burnout, Burnout 2/3
• Various Sega and CRI-licensed PS2/Dreamcast titles

Python port of nebulas-star/SFD_Muxer (C, 2021), restricted to the case of exactly 1 MPEG-1 video stream + 1 stereo CRI ADX audio (SofDec v1). Validated byte-equivalent to the reference C build for the cutscenes used in the Magna Carta undub.

Install

pip install sfd-muxer

Usage

Command Line

# Extract video and audio from a SFD file
sfd-muxer demux cutscene.sfd --video out.m1v --audio out.sfa

# Create a new SFD from video + audio
sfd-muxer mux --video subtitled.m1v --audio kr_audio.sfa -o cutscene.sfd

# Show SFD file info
sfd-muxer info cutscene.sfd

Python API

from sfd_muxer import SFD

# Demux
sfd = SFD.from_file("cutscene.sfd")
video = sfd.extract_video()   # MPEG-1 elementary stream
audio = sfd.extract_audio()   # CRI ADX (.sfa)

# Mux
sfd = SFD.mux(video, audio)
sfd.to_file("out.sfd")

# Or in-memory:
data = sfd.to_bytes()

Stream formats

• video — raw MPEG-1 elementary stream starting with 00 00 01 B3 (sequence header). The frame_rate_code (byte 7's low nibble) drives DTS scheduling during muxing.
• audio — CRI ADX (.sfa) with magic 80 00, (c)CRI watermark at offset 0x11A, and a header that includes block_size at +0x06, channel_count at +0x07, and big-endian u32 sample_rate at +0x08.

SFD layout

sector 0 (0x800 B):  pack_head + audio system_header + 0xBE padding
sector 1 (0x800 B):  pack_head + video system_header + 0xBE padding
sector 2 (0x800 B):  pack_head + Sofdec stream-message PES (0xBF) + zeros
sectors 3..N-1:      interleaved video (0xE0) / audio (0xC0) PES + 0xBE padding
                     (smallest pending DTS first)
final sector:        program_end (0x000001B9) + 0x7FC bytes of 0xFF

Credit

C reference implementation: nebulas-star/SFD_Muxer.