Movies

[Guest Twain]

The quality of the UMD movies is amazing but i cant really justify doubling up all my dvds just so i can watch them on the psp as well.

I have tried a few of the free conversion programs but they are all pretty pants none of which actually encode to the full resolution.

Was wondering if anyone knew the settings to encode with virtual dub as I always used this for my spv's and xda2 but dont really know what file formats and how well the psp can cope in terms of frame rate and res.

A couple of the videos I have seen are encoded with xvid as far as it shows while others simply say mpeg-4 and so on.

Any help as to the best progs or settings used to encode would be a great help, will be putting them onto a gig card and dont mind them taking up the whole card although would be good to get a couple on there.

(Dont actually have the card yet hence not really able to test myself!)

[Guest Dade]

The quality of the UMD movies is amazing but i cant really justify doubling up all my dvds just so i can watch them on the psp as well.

I have tried a few of the free conversion programs but they are all pretty pants none of which actually encode to the full resolution.

Was wondering if anyone knew the settings to encode with virtual dub as I always used this for my spv's and xda2 but dont really know what file formats and how well the psp can cope in terms of frame rate and res.

A couple of the videos I have seen are encoded with xvid as far as it shows while others simply say mpeg-4 and so on.

Any help as to the best progs or settings used to encode would be a great help, will be putting them onto a gig card and dont mind them taking up the whole card although would be good to get a couple on there.

(Dont actually have the card yet hence not really able to test myself!)

I use PSP Video9. You want to try and find a copy of the older version of the program as the new one (1.62) isn't as good as the new one. The other thing you want to do is change the settings. I found that the preset ones either make huge files OR or crappy quiality videos.

These are the settings I use:

Set the min to 384 and the max to 448

Have the pull down set to 512.

make sure the resolution is set to 368x208 and 29.97fps

I use two passes(takes longer, better quality)

Under audio settings, change bitrate to 96k and boost to 200%

The only negative thing I have to say about PSP9 is that its really slow!

[Guest Twain]

Cheers for the reply, what sort of file sizes does that give for a an averages film, say an hour and a half?

Do you know any links for the old version?

thanks again

[Guest Dade]

Cheers for the reply, what sort of file sizes does that give for a an averages film, say an hour and a half?

Do you know any links for the old version?

thanks again

No links to the older version Im afraid but you could be able to get two films on a 512mb card, obviously depending on the length of the film. I tend to push the quality up a little and just have the one film on the card.

[Guest stevie_bhoy_2005]

i usually go for 1 film and 4 family guy eps :o

[Guest TheDon]

So we've had our PSP's for a while now!

Had time to play and convert films!

So what do People think is the best free and the best Pay for software for converting DVD's for our PSP's?

What are you using and what do you like and dislike about the software??

[Guest neo89]

I use a program Called:

PSP Movie Creator, By PQ Software.

Great piece of convertors out there, it can even convert dvd's and all other file types, only thing it doesn;y convert is Quicktime files, MOV. But in all its great!