I was looking for a youtube video with the opening to Diva F, but I couldn't find one that I felt was good enough, so I did it myself.

The ones i could find had the following issues:
Uploaded in 1080p instead of the original 720p
Uploaded in 60fps instead of the original 29.97
Uploaded many years ago, so they're really compressed
They put a watermark or an intro on it. Why would you do that?
Uploaded, both deliberately and (in some cases) accidentally, with the colours a bit off.

STEPS TAKEN ARE AS FOLLOWS.
I obtained the original adv.pam file from the game and ran it through the video demuxer in VGMtoolbox. That gave me an m2v file and an aa3 file, which contained the video and the audio respectively. I then renamed the m2v file to have the .mpg extension, for reasons unknown. I then opened a terminal and ran "ffmpeg -i adv_000001E0.mpg -i adv_000001BD.aa3 -c:v copy adv.mpg" to unify both in one file. ffmpeg copied the mpeg-2 video stream over without re-encoding it and re-encoded the audio stream as "MPEG Audio Layer 2" (according to VLC). I then uploaded this unaltered to youtube.

I am aware that all the effort was largely pointless, because youtube compression is awful and the sub-par bitrate will crunch the quality down to potato, but I hope it is at least a bit better and more faithful to the original than the other uploads on the platform. Even if it is awful, I have the OG quality file on my Hard Drive.

If you want to download this for something, I'd rather you didn't. There's nothing I can possibly do to stop you, but I'd much prefer it if you followed the above steps to get the video yourself, hopefully at marginally better quality. Alternatively, you could not follow these steps. I am just a block of text; you don't have to listen to me.

Many Thanks,
HaThO

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