PMP Mod v2.02 & PMP Mod AVC v1.02

[miemt11]

I guess is due to the resource does return back to my program Active Windows, and this cause some unexpected error.

It should still work fine, even if you click continue program (Am I right)

You are totally right, it works fine, but it is at the end of the encoding.
By the way speed is fine, and please look into GUI as I hate using XP style ;)

Thanks!

OK, I will look into the GUI text disappear problem. Thank for the feedback

[Itaintrite]

Next step would be having a resolution calculator like BaldMonkey's app :P

[miemt11]

Next version PMP Simple Converter 0.06 GUI NEW Look (support both Classic and XP Style)


Classic


XP

[hyedipin]

New GUI Looks great, so we can get back to Classic. ;)

And,

Please check my log window (CMD) if you see any inconsistencies running out of my pre-packed version:

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MEncoder dev-CVS-050928-16:38-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel  (Family: 6, Stepping: 8)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x16488800
AVI file format detected.
AVI_NI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO:  [XVID]  352x288  24bpp  25.000 fps  935.0 kbps (114.1 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x44495658  size:352x288  fps:25.00  ftime:=0.0400
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [harddup]
Opening video filter: [scale w=480 h=272]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
Forcing output fourcc to 58564944 [DIVX]
Writing AVI header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.22:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Planar YV12 to Planar YV12 using MMX2
videocodec: libavcodec (480x272 fourcc=58564944 [DIVX])
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Pos:2324.3s  58107f (85%) 192fps Trem:   0min 166mb  A-V:0.000 [511:0]

====================

Following is the second stage (joining and getting pmp ready)

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PMP Muxer v1.00 by jonny

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


use: pmp_muxer "video.avi" "audio.mp3" "output.pmp"

Processing video ...
69701 / 69701
dwTotalFrames: 69701
dwWidth:       480
dwHeight:      272
dwScale:       1
dwRate:        25
movi:          4112
Max:           40046
28003 / 69701

[hyedipin]

Two Simple questions:

1) Can we get a Windows pmp player so we can test our output first?
2) "Forcing output fourcc to 58564944 [DIVX]" , can we use [XVID] instead?


Two Suggestions:
1) My encoder seems to encode at 7.5x
Could everyone who tries this post their speed?
I just calculate the time it took to encode and calculate using the original length. (For example 1000 second clip took 100 seconds means 10x)

So:

Intel Centrino 1.86 - 1GB DDR RAM - 7.5x Encoding - Divx Source

2) miemt11, could you please tell PMP Simple to delete out.avi and out.mp3 when the PMP Simple is being closed? This could be a simple line of code at the end when someone uses kill/close/terminate PMP Simple.

[miemt11]

How about using the latest mencoder from here http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php in your package

New GUI Looks great, so we can get back to Classic. ;)

And,

Please check my log window (CMD) if you see any inconsistencies running out of my pre-packed version:

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MEncoder dev-CVS-050928-16:38-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel  (Family: 6, Stepping: 8)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x16488800
AVI file format detected.
AVI_NI: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO:  [XVID]  352x288  24bpp  25.000 fps  935.0 kbps (114.1 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x44495658  size:352x288  fps:25.00  ftime:=0.0400
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [harddup]
Opening video filter: [scale w=480 h=272]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
Forcing output fourcc to 58564944 [DIVX]
Writing AVI header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
VDec: vo config request - 352 x 288 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.22:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Planar YV12 to Planar YV12 using MMX2
videocodec: libavcodec (480x272 fourcc=58564944 [DIVX])
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp h
eader.
Pos:2324.3s  58107f (85%) 192fps Trem:   0min 166mb  A-V:0.000 [511:0]

====================

Following is the second stage (joining and getting pmp ready)

Code: Select all

PMP Muxer v1.00 by jonny

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


use: pmp_muxer "video.avi" "audio.mp3" "output.pmp"

Processing video ...
69701 / 69701
dwTotalFrames: 69701
dwWidth:       480
dwHeight:      272
dwScale:       1
dwRate:        25
movi:          4112
Max:           40046
28003 / 69701

[hyedipin]

What's the difference?
I just encoded a 50 minute tv show using the package and worked fine without a single glitch.

But I will try that as well (p4)

yeah, i just used that and gave me pmp_decode_open: audio_output_length !=4608 error.... let me try another one

edit:
yea, that works fine as well, using p4 version for Centrino.
And the good side is it is much smaller than the other one came with mPlayer package..

instead of changing that let it remain as it is, and we will create a good pack once you release the next one ;)

[miemt11]

Two Simple questions:

1) Can we get a Windows pmp player so we can test our output first?
2) "Forcing output fourcc to 58564944 [DIVX]" , can we use [XVID] instead?


Two Suggestions:
1) My encoder seems to encode at 7.5x
Could everyone who tries this post their speed?
I just calculate the time it took to encode and calculate using the original length. (For example 1000 second clip took 100 seconds means 10x)

So:

Intel Centrino 1.86 - 1GB DDR RAM - 7.5x Encoding - Divx Source

2) miemt11, could you please tell PMP Simple to delete out.avi and out.mp3 when the PMP Simple is being closed? This could be a simple line of code at the end when someone uses kill/close/terminate PMP Simple.

PMP simple converter does del the out.avi and out.mp3.

[miemt11]

PMP Simple Converter 0.06 for PMPMOD
Develop by miemt11 Date 16 Jan 2006
----------------------------------------------------
_______________
What can it do?
_______________

Convert any video (rmvb, avi, mpg, wmv, asf) to PSP PMP format
========================================================================


Change from version 0.05

1: add a right-click short cut menu
2: minor change to the GUI to support Windows XP Classic Style
3: Fix the unexpected error (file not found) when finish encoding
4: minor fix.

Download here

http://rapidshare.de/files/11073802/PMP ... 6.rar.html

and here

http://s19.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3JEP ... UMPEEUFV1B

Screenshot




Oh yes, almost forget, Thank for all THE GOOD Feedback.



Component Requirement:

1: Get all the mencoder component from here
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php
and intall all any directory you like. e.g. C:\Mencoder

2: Put pmp_muxer.exe to the intall directory e.g. C:\Mencoder

3: Now extract my PMP Simple and rm.exe to the intall directory e.g. C:\Mencoder

4: .Net Framework Runtime 2.00 from here
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... tnetfx.exe

[capfelix]

Hi,

Thanks for the Simple PMP Converter. Will you be adding in Batch Conversion feature in your program soon?

Thanks!

[tanweeho]

Hi jonny (or others), what exactly causes the "Lost Sync" error thrown out by the PMP Muxer? I have encoded several audio files, in various formats, to MP3s using BeSweet-LameMp3... I would get these errors occasionally. I workaround these problems by re-encoding these problematic MP3 files to... well... to MP3 again using other audio conversion tools.

[jonny]

sync lost happen when the muxer find data that is not an mp3 frame nor an ID3v1 tag.
in the next version of the muxer, i'll probably handle this skipping nonaudio data, instead of firing the error

PS: an encoder writing always "pure" mp3 seems to be ffmpeg (it also works correctly with all the supported birtates)

[wulfie]

can anyone recommend some 'acceptable' pmp bitrates for the smallest filesize yet still 'good' quality? also, will this 'encoder' accept vob files? how small would I be able to get a dvd down to? ;)

[jonny]

bitrate is not an indicator of quality
a static scene may looks good with a low bitrate, a fast moving one ugly with the same bitrate
i would say quality based @quantizer=4 is the more balanced quality/size option for psp

[wulfie]

okay, I guess that makes sense. How about dvd's? can I use a vob file? or would I have to convert dvd to divx first? Anyone know?

[miemt11]

PMP Simple Converter 0.07 Screenshot preview



Will release in later date

[artik]

miemt11, if you need for graphic stuff, ask me.
here is what i did for trillian (it's just an example) :
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/forums/s ... adid=78362

[kaveman]

I've tried 3gp and whilst the conversions I've made were flawless, to get good encodes you need 2 pass, and there are no sharpening options. It's a good converter but exhibits temporal blocking artifacts at lower bitrates and also takes a fair amount of time to convert.

Videora is simple, but short on config options and takes a loooooooong time to encode. The same temporal blocking artifacts appear at lower bitrates, due to the same codecs.

PMP Simple is shaping up to be the best option currently especially with the new resolutions, so thank you very very much for your time on this miemt11. The keyframe error is annoying on some vids (they work perfectly in 3gp) but I am aware this is an issue with mencoder and could be solved by a new muxer.

Regarding PMP Simple, I had some notes/questions/suggestions.

• The batch mode will be awesome, especially if you can ensure different videos can have different encoding settings for each file depending on the source (i.e 4:3, 16:9 vids)
  
  Is there any way to have an input box to add any additional command switches for mencoder? This would be awesome to be able to use to do some manual tweaking to the batch. This would also make the PMP Simple more extensible without having to change the GUI, and allow more people to experiment with different switch settings - with the possibility of approved tweaked settings/switches being incorporated back into the GUI after testing.
  
  Is there any way to alter the number of passes? HQ mode seems to use some form of read-ahead buffer to help with encoding, but obviously full pass methods would allow for better quality at smaller filesizes. Mencoder is fast, so I'd be happy to run 2-3 passes on some vids, especially overnight in batch mode. This would help make most use of limited memory stick space, but maintain high quality! I'm using a 512/112 setting which gives me a nice 190mb file for 45min TV episodes, and about 400mb for a film - these settings are tight, but great for getting files on to a 512mb stick with a little room to spare for apps.
  
  Is there any way to play around with the post-processing options in ffmpeg/libavc whilst decoding vids (for deblocking, noise, cropping, sharpening etc) before re-encoding? This would be ace for some videos that have pretty bad blocking, which just gets worse when re-encoding with the artifacts just being made worse by the conversion, regardless of bitrate.
  
  When opening a file, is it possible for the 'Output PMP' to inherit the path/filename from input and just change the extension to .pmp? This would save having to rewrite the name all the time (or cut and paste).

Otherwise fantistic work miemt11, and amazing work to start with Jonny - you've single-handedly re-ignited the PSP scene with your efforts. PMPMod is part of my 'killer app suite' on my PSP with UMD Emulator and SNES9xTyl. I never leave home without my PSP now!

Oh and just a suggestion to some of the noobs on here - I'm not flaming anyone, but please be aware that these guys are working on this stuff in their own time to benefit the whole community. So have a little patience and no-doubt various requests will be looked at and evaluated, then incorporated. This is an open source project so in time things will coalesce into one definitive uber program - that's just the way it works.

I have absolutely no problem that there is no interface or GUI to PMPMod as yet - this is the last thing that would get finished. malloc's mods have added basic important functionality to keep us going (especially the luminosity hack) so, please be patient before demanding too much! Getting the core stuff sorted is the main thing, everything else will follow.

Muchos respect for the coders.


KV

[Sorted]

okay, I guess that makes sense. How about dvd's? can I use a vob file? or would I have to convert dvd to divx first? Anyone know?



Videora can convert a Vob file directly

[wulfie]

okay, I guess that makes sense. How about dvd's? can I use a vob file? or would I have to convert dvd to divx first? Anyone know?



Videora can convert a Vob file directly

I don't want to go from dvd to mp4...I wanna go from dvd to pmp ;)

[miemt11]

WOW, very good comment and suggestions. I am now very motivated :) . I will add the feature one at a time (I hope).

I've tried 3gp and whilst the conversions I've made were flawless, to get good encodes you need 2 pass, and there are no sharpening options. It's a good converter but exhibits temporal blocking artifacts at lower bitrates and also takes a fair amount of time to convert.

Videora is simple, but short on config options and takes a loooooooong time to encode. The same temporal blocking artifacts appear at lower bitrates, due to the same codecs.

PMP Simple is shaping up to be the best option currently especially with the new resolutions, so thank you very very much for your time on this miemt11. The keyframe error is annoying on some vids (they work perfectly in 3gp) but I am aware this is an issue with mencoder and could be solved by a new muxer.

Regarding PMP Simple, I had some notes/questions/suggestions.

• The batch mode will be awesome, especially if you can ensure different videos can have different encoding settings for each file depending on the source (i.e 4:3, 16:9 vids)
  
  Is there any way to have an input box to add any additional command switches for mencoder? This would be awesome to be able to use to do some manual tweaking to the batch. This would also make the PMP Simple more extensible without having to change the GUI, and allow more people to experiment with different switch settings - with the possibility of approved tweaked settings/switches being incorporated back into the GUI after testing.
  
  Is there any way to alter the number of passes? HQ mode seems to use some form of read-ahead buffer to help with encoding, but obviously full pass methods would allow for better quality at smaller filesizes. Mencoder is fast, so I'd be happy to run 2-3 passes on some vids, especially overnight in batch mode. This would help make most use of limited memory stick space, but maintain high quality! I'm using a 512/112 setting which gives me a nice 190mb file for 45min TV episodes, and about 400mb for a film - these settings are tight, but great for getting files on to a 512mb stick with a little room to spare for apps.
  
  Is there any way to play around with the post-processing options in ffmpeg/libavc whilst decoding vids (for deblocking, noise, cropping, sharpening etc) before re-encoding? This would be ace for some videos that have pretty bad blocking, which just gets worse when re-encoding with the artifacts just being made worse by the conversion, regardless of bitrate.
  
  When opening a file, is it possible for the 'Output PMP' to inherit the path/filename from input and just change the extension to .pmp? This would save having to rewrite the name all the time (or cut and paste).

Otherwise fantistic work miemt11, and amazing work to start with Jonny - you've single-handedly re-ignited the PSP scene with your efforts. PMPMod is part of my 'killer app suite' on my PSP with UMD Emulator and SNES9xTyl. I never leave home without my PSP now!

Oh and just a suggestion to some of the noobs on here - I'm not flaming anyone, but please be aware that these guys are working on this stuff in their own time to benefit the whole community. So have a little patience and no-doubt various requests will be looked at and evaluated, then incorporated. This is an open source project so in time things will coalesce into one definitive uber program - that's just the way it works.

I have absolutely no problem that there is no interface or GUI to PMPMod as yet - this is the last thing that would get finished. malloc's mods have added basic important functionality to keep us going (especially the luminosity hack) so, please be patient before demanding too much! Getting the core stuff sorted is the main thing, everything else will follow.

Muchos respect for the coders.


KV

[xxxstarmanxxx]

okay, I guess that makes sense. How about dvd's? can I use a vob file? or would I have to convert dvd to divx first? Anyone know?



Videora can convert a Vob file directly

I don't want to go from dvd to mp4...I wanna go from dvd to pmp ;)

I have said this already on the thread - Wimenc 0.5x (thats a gui with mencoder) handles vob to pmp files directly.

All the files are in this thread - just try them out!

All the best

J.

[someone]

For those who care, ive updated PSPMPVerter to v0.9 with a few new features
check it out here

Thanks!
Just a note about the (really useful, thanks) subtitle feature..it outputs -subcp cp950 that is Chinese (Taiwan, Hong Kong) codepage, and this make the subtitle conversion fail with subtitles in other encodings (so no subtitle is added in that case).
Why not adding an option to select the codepage? (at least the most common ones, eg: latin1).
Second bug: latest version is passing a 3d parameter (pmp name) to pmp_muxer that is an empty string if file name isn't choose with file save dialog (that is, if you manually write the name or leave the name choosen by the program this name is not passed to the muxer)!

@ jonny: HUGE thanks for you amazing work (thanks also to JiniCho for his original work)

@ miemt11: can you please add subtitle support?

@ BaLdMoNkEy & miemt11: me too thinks that it would be a nice addition a cropping option. Otherwise anytime we needsto do some cropping (often from a 16:9 to retain the correct aspect ratio + full screen) we have to still use VirtualDub o some other manual-conversion-tool. (thanks to both of you for your programs, and the others sharing their batch and suggetsions)

[hyedipin]

miemt11, it's going great, thank you, looking forward to next release, whenever you have time to work on it, it works great as it is.

About Winenc 0.5x, some of the links given are dead, and I could not find it when I searched on the web. I would like to try converting DVD to PMP, but the steps I would take is 1) Decrypt VOB 2) VOB to MPG 3) MPG to XVID on Vdub Mod 4) XVID to PMP using any of the current coverters, and this would probably take pretty long.

Is there way to convert Original DVD directly to PMP in one stage? or in two at most?

Thank You.

[hyedipin]

While waiting for a reply with a better solution to convert DVD directly to PMP, i have done a few trials using DVD. I used Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban DVD's Trailer of Elf and ImToo DVD Ripper (5-Min Demo Version) and miemt11's coverter.

What I did was
DVD -> SVCD (Mpeg2) Using ImToo
SVCD -> PMP Using miemt11's setup

Due to the SVCD quality restrictions, I have a bit of a skipping (very minimal) and used low audio bit rate

Result is: Video Link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/11113495/elf ... d.pmp.html

Result is acceptable but nowhere near the other pmp samples posted by jonny.

[kaveman]

While waiting for a reply with a better solution to convert DVD directly to PMP, i have done a few trials using DVD. I used Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban DVD's Trailer of Elf and ImToo DVD Ripper (5-Min Demo Version) and miemt11's coverter.

What I did was
DVD -> SVCD (Mpeg2) Using ImToo
SVCD -> PMP Using miemt11's setup

Due to the SVCD quality restrictions, I have a bit of a skipping (very minimal) and used low audio bit rate

Result is: Video Link:
http://rapidshare.de/files/11113495/elf ... d.pmp.html

Result is acceptable but nowhere near the other pmp samples posted by jonny.

if you head to doom9.org (as jonny has mentioned numerous times) you will find much better ways of converting DVD to AVI (such as Gordian Knot or AutoGK). This will give you the raw basics to use with PMP Muxer. (or one of the converters if you are not sure how to output the video and audio streams separately, eg with VirtualDub)

[hyedipin]

Hello Kaveman,
Thanks for the suggestion. For those who doesn't have much knowledge about bitrates, convertion settings, passes, etc, here is another way for DVD -> High Quality PMP

I was actually working on a better and a bit faster alternative,
What I did was Rip DVD using SmarRipper ( http://www.pctip.ch/library/downloads/dl.asp?id=2841 ) to VOB,
Use that VOB and convert to AVI using avi.NET ( http://www.clonead.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ... vi.NET.zip ) and the output avi is converted to PMP using any method.

Here is the alternative output, which is much better than ImToo version;
PMP out of SmartRipper+avi.NET LINK:
http://rapidshare.de/files/11118521/elf ... e.pmp.html

PS. You can use Virtual Dub as well, after the SmartRipper step.

[hyedipin]

A wild question, I skimmed through the topic but didn't see it,
Could't we have PMP Mod as a Compressor in Virtual Mod just like Divx or XviD so we can just input .vob to Virtual Dub Mod, and select output as PMP, isn't that possible?

[xxxstarmanxxx]

miemt11, it's going great, thank you, looking forward to next release, whenever you have time to work on it, it works great as it is.

About Winenc 0.5x, some of the links given are dead, and I could not find it when I searched on the web. I would like to try converting DVD to PMP, but the steps I would take is 1) Decrypt VOB 2) VOB to MPG 3) MPG to XVID on Vdub Mod 4) XVID to PMP using any of the current coverters, and this would probably take pretty long.

Is there way to convert Original DVD directly to PMP in one stage? or in two at most?

Thank You.

For everyone!

Winmenc 0.5x (psp version) - All you need is to put this encoder frontend in your mencoder folder.

http://download.filefront.com/4618947;1 ... fcd266f720

1. decrypt vob

2. VOB to MPG WHY???????????? - no need to do this??????

the real step 2. encode vob to pmp compliant avi (480x???)

3. The program finishes by muxing into PMP

It couldn't get any easier than this mate.

I wont make any further posts about encoding as the ground is more than covered within this thread with various programs / help.

I will however answer any questions or help via PM's in the vain attempt to keep the thread free from unnecessary posting.

Maybe Jonny could setup a seperate thread for general enquiries or help so this thread remains delevopment orientated????

All the best

J.

[Sorted]

I don't want to go from dvd to mp4...I wanna go from dvd to pmp ;)

WULFIE
see below


VIDEORA

Does a Direct VOB to PMP conversion