PSP Media Software, DVD to PSP??

tthome

tthome

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Proud owner of a new silver PSP sure needs some guidance on what software works best for ripping my 500+ dvds to my psp. I have seen Max Media Manager and also Sony's Media manager, but I'd like something that will simply convert them straight to the size psp screen is.

Any suggestion for a new psp papa??
 
YOu can just use a freeware program like Avi2DVD (try google) and then convert the avi (usually DivX) with an mp4 converter. The ones that work for iPods should work for PSPs too as they use the same file formats.
 
I played around with using a combination of DVD Decrypter and PSP Video 9 to do it. Since PSPV9 can work directly from .vob files, you are starting from the best quality source data you can get. PSP Video 9 will also encode to 480x272 which is the PSP native screen resolution. I found that 768kbps 1-pass encoding with 160kbps AAC encoding looks fantastic to me (nearly UMD-quality). At that bitrate you are running about 400MB per hour of video so depending on what kind of storage you have for your PSP you may need to adjust the settings a little. Reducing the audio to 128kbps-AAC only saves about 40MB in a 3hr movie so I kept the highest audio quality I could (I have a really good pair of headphones so I can actually benefit from higher audio quality), if you need smaller files you can reduce the video bitrate.

I had trouble using 2-pass, it reduced the bitrate to like 300kbps and it looked like garbage, so I just stuck with 1-pass.

I wonder though if PSP video 9 is spyware cause it really looks like it with all the ads, I only installed it because I intend to reformat my computer soon anyways so I didn't care what junk it spread across the system.

Ruahrc
 
Just a word of caution on this stuff:

While I haven't tried with the PSP I have tried in the past with TiVo, iPod, AppleTV.

You'll spend more time converting the movies than you would actually watching them. A lot more time. This is after you figure out how to get it from one format/codec to another. There are a bunch of different setting that you'll play around with, etc.

Basically, as nice as it'd be to just rip a DVD and watch it wherever, trying to get to that point (and you won't get to that point - everything is incompatible or of sub-par quality) will cost you a lot of time transcoding.

You're probably better off just picking up the UMD movies. I see them around for $5-10, now.

I wish it were like MP3s, JPGs, GIFs where everything 'just worked' (and with MP3s you've got just a few setting which make sense to most people).

If you're in it to just play around with it and, at the end of the day, say, "Look what I did! Isn't that cool?" then go ahead. If you're looking to convert a library of DVDs so that you can watch them on your PSP then you'll likely still be working on converting that library after your interest in your PSP has waned.

Another tool to checkout: Handbrake
http://handbrake.fr/
 
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