Converting movies for your PSP. (GUIDE)

[Maynard]

Just thought i would post some guides that i've been using for making movies for the Memory Stick Duo. Even if you don't have a PSP yet, you can still play around with it and figure it out. So far i've converted Napoleon Dynamite and 6 episodes of Family Guy.

http://www.kielmartin.net/pspmovie/ ( pretty good just found it today)

Best site so far

http://mysite.verizon.net/res6vlxa/index.htm

Use the Rapiz Video PSP converter, its awesome and converts movies to play in full screen.

Just thought i would share so you guys could get started early ! :P

maynard

[GenDV138]

The second site is great, I agree. I saw it a few days ago and converted two episodes of Mr. Show so far to prepare for the PSP launch.

[Spoon_si]

Nice, just need a 2 GB card now...

[qwikstreet]

SanDisk does make a 2GB memory card (http://handheldheadquarters.com/main/modules/news/article.php?storyid=157). Its going to be pricey as hell. Those are great links and reference for PSP users. I'm going to mirror all of the ones I find on HHHQ.

26 days and counting...

[AlbinoNinja]

Very N00bish question, but I'm really curious:

Would I be able to watch Flash movies on my PSP (I especially want to see SBEmails whenever I want) with little trouble? Does the guide above cover that?

[peloquin17]

i wonder how much space it would take up to convert ALL the mr show episodes.

hmmm...i think i have a project for the month of march.

[GenDV138]

i wonder how much space it would take up to convert ALL the mr show episodes.

hmmm...i think i have a project for the month of march.

If I'm converting them correctly, each of them are around 45-50 MB.

[yakboy86]

i wonder how much space it would take up to convert ALL the mr show episodes.

hmmm...i think i have a project for the month of march.

If I'm converting them correctly, each of them are around 45-50 MB.

What video quality,audio quality, video resolution, and frame setup you
use to get those episodes to around 45-50 MB?

[GenDV138]

i wonder how much space it would take up to convert ALL the mr show episodes.

hmmm...i think i have a project for the month of march.

If I'm converting them correctly, each of them are around 45-50 MB.

What video quality,audio quality, video resolution, and frame setup you
use to get those episodes to around 45-50 MB?

I'm not sure off the top of my head, I just followed the guide on http://mysite.verizon.net/res6vlxa/dvd2psp.htm

[Querjek]

Blah.

I'm just using DVDShrink to rip my DVDs, then I'm using 3GP to convert them. The problem that I'm facing is that my movies always end up being around 225 mb, which I know is too small to be of very high quality. What setting to I want to use for compression in 3GP to make my movies bigger?

[starboyk]

Maynard, yet again, you rock all hard hell. Thanks for more great PSP info, again!
-K

[epobirs]

Very N00bish question, but I'm really curious:

Would I be able to watch Flash movies on my PSP (I especially want to see SBEmails whenever I want) with little trouble? Does the guide above cover that?

No. Flash is not just a playback system. It is also equipped for all kinds of interactivity and programmability. This is similar to Shockwave, also by Macromedia (Flash was created by a small company they bought out), but uses vector imaging to create much smaller files, similar to the difference between a draw program and a paint program.

Another big problem is scaling. A PSP's screen is of substantially lower resolution than the least a typical Flash designer accommodates. Most websites expect a minimum of 800x600 and many are properly viewed at 1024x768 or greater. A Flash file that was entirely vector base could scale to be reasonably viewable on a PSP without a lot of hassle but bit maps have become pretty common in Falsh apps and those don't scale on the fly as easily without problems.

It's possible but I greatly doubt it's in the top 100 on Sony's PSP To Do List.

[simplygriff]

On the Mac I've been using Mac The Ripper & FFmpegX which has a PSP preset.

Question: How are you guys doing Full Movies? Are you creating and converting 1 Huge .vob file? or Are you doing them in parts as the .vob files are? or are you doing something completely different?

I've done 1 episode of Family Guy (~58 Mb) and am working on episodes of Star Wars: Clone Wars.

[goofee12]

To all PSP Hopefuls,

I am currently in Japan and Have had my PSP for about amonth now. I swore never to have a one but now wont part with it. I will try if possible to answer any questions. I am just now starting to convert movies for it. I will post what I find out...
Regards....

[kev]

Does it only play a proprietary format? It's not standard mpeg-4? Does this work "out of the box" meaning I don't have to add any extra software to run movies on a mem stick?

If that's true, I will certainly buy one of these bad boys.

[pspvideo9]

Hi Guys,
We've been hard at work on PSP Video 9, a new freeware PSP video encoder/management application. We have come quite far in development and we are finally ready for a beta release. You can see screenshots and download it from our website:
http://www.pspvideo9.com

We'd love to hear what you think.
Feel free to leave any comments, questions or concerns about it in our forums or in this post.

[Alpha2]

Use the Rapiz Video PSP converter, its awesome and converts movies to play in full screen.


When you say full screen how exactly do you mean? maybe I'm understanding you wrong, does it take wide screen videos and convert them to full screen? Why would you do that when the PSP is more of a wide screen than reguler tv resolution?

It's funny yeasterday I was wondering how I'd convert the videos and now I have like 3 separate programs to choose from.

[phatbunbao]

Ok I'm trying to use rapiz on anime shows but keep getting an error, wat's the deal? I tried differrent settings yet all stop near the end and says error. What settings are u guys using?

[-Never4ever-]

What about non-DVD rips. Like, just say, movies dloeded of Kazaa or some crap. Would I have to convert those? What formats are compadible with the PSP? MPEG, WMV, etc, etc.

[Alpha2]

Image Converter2... or pretty much any of the programs mentioned in the previous links would convert avi or mpg to mp4 (the only format the PSP uses)

Converting torrent videos to PSP movies should actually be 100 times easier than dvds.