Video Encoding

TriOptimum · Post by **TriOptimum** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:27 am

Figured I'd give out the information I have on how to encode and playback videos on the PSP. There are two ways basic ways to encode them and get them on the PSP:

Easy way - use Image Converter 2 and check out this forum:

http://www.1src.com/forums/showthread.p ... ge=1&pp=15

Technically your suppsoed ot buy IC2 form Sony Japan, but I can't read enough Kanji to figure out how to buy a PSP version of it from there site, and there it is for free (works almsot the same, an that forum provides english translation files for it).

Here is the more complicated, but more customizeable (and legal) way, as described on engadget:

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000980024404/

I couldn't get the engadget way to work right, the app took too long to encode ifles compared to IC2, and they came out garbled, so I just use IC2 for now, though if you can get it working right, the engadget way should provide better results. Good luck peeps :).

Post by **ooPo** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 3:45 pm

Ahhh, good info.

Is there a free trial edition of Image Converter 2?

manasol · Post by **manasol** » Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:55 pm

Nero brings MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding)/H.264 to the masses with latest Nero Digital™ update

That is from Nero's website.

TriOptimum · Post by **TriOptimum** » Fri Dec 24, 2004 2:32 pm

manasol wrote:
Nero brings MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding)/H.264 to the masses with latest Nero Digital™ update
That is from Nero's website.

Yeah, Nero can re-encode h.264 to DVD, but I don't know if can re-encode stuff in to h.264...

There is no free trial, and there's no real way to get the IC2 sofware unless oyur in Japan or want to download it from that forum I linked to. I'm getting the Japanese verison tommorow from a friend in Japan, I'll see if it's any different than the one on the forum or not.

Stan64 · Post by **Stan64** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:04 am

Another one. He claims to have did the first one ever.
http://web.comhem.se/~u73905368/index2.html

TriOptimum · Post by **TriOptimum** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 12:04 pm

If you try to fit a DVD on a memory stick using 768k 30fps and 128kb audio, it will need a 1gb duo card for most movies over 90 minutes. 368k video at 30fps in fine with me, but all the programs make you turn the audio down to 68kb, and I hate that. I'm triyng to find a 1gb duo card now, but most stores are out of stock of the SanDisk ones at $180, and the Sony ones are $325+.

Also worth mentioning you don't need the .thm files made when you convert videos, but they seem to contain a preview of the video content that's displayed on the menu in the PSP (I might be wrong, but when I don't copy that file over, there is no preview sometimes).