psxavenc

psxavenc is an open-source command-line tool for encoding audio and video data into formats commonly used on the original PlayStation.

Installation

Requirements:

• a recent version of FFmpeg libraries (libavformat, libavcodec, libavutil, libswresample, libswscale);
• a recent version of Meson.

$ meson setup build
$ cd build
$ ninja install

Usage

Run psxavenc.

Examples

Rescale a video file to ≤320x240 pixels (preserving aspect ratio) and encode it into a 15fps .STR file with 37800 Hz 4-bit stereo audio and 2352-byte sectors, meant to be played at 2x CD-ROM speed:

$ psxavenc -t str2cd -f 37800 -b 4 -c 2 -s 320x240 -r 15 -x 2 in.mp4 out.str

Convert a mono audio sample to 22050 Hz raw SPU-ADPCM data:

$ psxavenc -t spu -f 22050 in.ogg out.snd

Convert a stereo audio file to a 44100 Hz interleaved .VAG file with 8192-byte interleave and loop flags set at the end of each interleaved chunk:

$ psxavenc -t vagi -f 44100 -c 2 -L -i 8192 in.wav out.vag

Supported formats

Format	Audio	Channels	Video	Sector size
xa	XA-ADPCM	1 or 2	None	2336 bytes
xacd	XA-ADPCM	1 or 2	None	2352 bytes
spu	SPU-ADPCM	1	None
spui	SPU-ADPCM	Any	None	Any
vag	SPU-ADPCM	1	None
vagi	SPU-ADPCM	Any	None	Any
str2	None or XA-ADPCM	1 or 2	BS v2	2336 bytes
str2cd	None or XA-ADPCM	1 or 2	BS v2	2352 bytes
sbs2	None		BS v2	Any

Notes:

• vag and vagi are similar to spu and spui respectively, but add a .VAG header at the beginning of the file. The header is always 48 bytes long for vag files, while in the case of vagi files it is padded to the size specified using the -a option (2048 bytes by default). Note that vagi files with more than 2 channels and/or alignment other than 2048 bytes are not standardized.
• The sbs2 format (used in some System 573 games) is simply a series of concatenated BS v2 frames, each padded to the size specified by the -a option, with no additional headers besides the BS frame headers.