PAMFtool (PlayStation Advanced Movie Format) 1.6.0

PAMFtool is an open-source muxer & demuxer for PlayStation Advanced Movie Format (.PAMF, .PAM), often found in PS3 games.

The goal of this project is to provide an open-source solution for preserving PAMF videos without relying on SDK tools.

Source code is included in the zip, the tool is still in development.

Supported streams:

- AVC (H.264) video streams

- M2V (MPEG-2) video streams

- ATRAC3 Plus audio streams

- LPCM audio streams

- AC-3 audio streams (experimental)

Requirements

.NET 8.0 (or higher)

Supported platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux.

Usage & Parameters

• -info - Print information about a PAMF file and its streams

• -demux - Demux all streams from an input PAMF file and write them to a subfolder

• -mux - Mux all streams contained in a folder into a new PAMF file

Additional -mux Parameters

• -noep - Skip writing an entry-point seek table in the PAMF header

• -deblock - Force the codec-info deblock byte to 1 for AVC streams

• -nodeblock - Force the codec-info deblock byte to 0 for AVC streams

• -noatsc - Ignore any 'atsc' RIFF chunk in .at3 inputs

• -pace <v> - Set SCR pacing rate. See -h for values

• -pstd <KB> - Override AVC P-STD buffer size in KB

• -mmb <n> - Override max_mean_bitrate byte in AVC codec_info

• -ps2-block <n> - Override minimum pictures between ps2/EP blocks (1..492)

• -muxrate <KBps> - Override pack_header mux_rate (48000, 24000, or 12000)

• -std-delay <ticks> - Override std_delay_bound and scheduler lead limit. See -h for values

• -initial-scr <ticks> - SCR origin (auto-detected)

Notes

- Starting with v1.3, genuine PAMF files demuxed then remuxed with PAMFtool are now byte-identical to the originals (400+ files tested across numerous games)

- Raw H.264 data does not play in most video players. Use ffmpeg to mux it back into a more conventional container format.

GitHub Repo

GitHub