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imhotep · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 41

ok, thanks.

imhotep · Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 41

ok, thanks.

xbox360 · Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 12

Mr.Modem · Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 28

This is brilliant Jonny, thanks! It took a while til I figured out how to use VirtualDub to output files in the right format but it was worth it. This is one of the best things that have happened to the PSP scene.

reveine · Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 14

jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

@reveine:
i understand your excitement, but please, if the material is copyrighted, remove the links (i'm not able to verify this, so i leave this to you and mods)

@all:
i'm preparing answers for common questions/problems + a couple of suggestions to follow in order to make good problem reports (so i hope i don't have to ask the same things every time :)

cheers
jonny

arex · Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 23

reveine · Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 14

xbox360 · Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 12

sorry,im a newbee:) about conversion

audio codec is mp3 ??
i see somewhere using goldwave to convert to microsoft adpcm??is it right??:(

csuper · Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 103

Jonny = Fullpsp Alchemist ! :)

Thanx Reveine for the working profile ! I will test that this evening...

Ps : another small request idea... possibilitie during the video to point at a specific time - like a resume pointer (for example the PSP manage to do it with MPEG4 and H264 file...)

Anyway... everybody here is amaze by your job :)

csuper.

Eternal-Blue · Joined: 03 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

x264 codec (avc/h264 like in firmware 2.0) dont work. error message is: First frame is no keyframe. Hope you add this at next version. It have better quality as xvid at lower bitrates.

PS: GOOD JOB :)

EdwardFMA · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 40

Very nice I can now watch Bleach in full resolution on my PSP!

Also if it helps anyone i found VirtualDub Mod to be much easier than normal VirtualDub... I might make a tutorial depends *shrugs*
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jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

i've tested x264, but not deeply.
it can't be used in the current player build.
iirc Baseline Profile was going around 18fps, Main Profile/High Profile around 8fps
this is the speed with no optimizations.
maybe i could get full speed with Baseline Profile after optimizations, but it's too early to talk about this.

PS: infos about profiles can be found here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96059

PPS: yes VirtualDubMod is probably more suited for the process (expecially audio demuxing)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod

EdwardFMA · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 40

How to Convert Audio and Video to PMP using VirtualDub Mod and Belight

1. Download VirtualDub Mod also Download XviD

2. Open VirtualDub Mod and go to [File]-[Open Video File...]

3. Select the File you want to convert (For this Example i'm useing Bleach Episode 62)

4. Next go to [Streams]-[Stream List]

5. Next select the audio stream and click on [Disable]

6. Next go to [Video]-[Filters...]

7. Then click on [Add]

8. The select [Resize] and click [Ok]

9. Then a dialog box should appear for resizeing change the width to [480] and the height to [272] I suggest [Bilinear], but you can play around with this to get it to look good...

10. Now your [Filter...] Dialog Box should look like this once your done just click [Ok]

11. Now go to [Video]-[Compression]

12. Then select [XviD MPEG-4 Codec] and click [Configure]

13. Then click [Load Defaults] in the [XviD Configuration] Dialog box and click on [more...] next to [Profile @ Level]

14. Next uncheck [B-VOPs] and click [Ok]

15. Then click [Target quantizer:] if you want to select the bitrate of your video once you are done just click [Ok]

16. Next go to [File]-[Save As...] and save it

17. Now it should look something like this go take a break this took 13 Min. on my computer with this 30 Min. Episode...

18. Now for the Audio goto [File]-[Exit]

19. Download BeLight (I use the Stable Version)

20. Next Open up BeLight and match your settings to the one in the Image

21. Then click [Input] and select [AVI Files (*.avi)] under [Files of type:] and select the video which you opened in [VirtualDub Mod] in step: 3

22. next just click [Start]

23. Once it's done just put both the [*.mp3] File made in step: 19 and the [*.avi] File made in step: 14 into PMP Muxer

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jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

EdwardFMA, nice nick and nice tut :)

can you add a step about XviD config?

after step 12:
hit "Configure"
hit "Load Defaults" on XviD config
hit "more..." near "Profile @ Level", disable "B-VOPs" and close this window (this is optional, i'm discovering bframes are not so problematic in the current version)
hit "Target quantizer" if you want to change to non quality based mode and specify the bitrate you want to use

PS: if you convert everything to html+images and you send me everything, i'll be happy to include this tut on my site.

@imhotep:

"pmp_decode_open: audio_output_length != 4608"

do you cut the audio at start or something similar?
can you give me detailed infos about your audio encoding process (softs used with exact version number)? (the best thing for me is to replicate the same problem on my machine)

@everyone using BeLight and getting "sync lost" error:
are you sure you are using BeSweet v1.5b31?
(the only way i've found in order to get "sync lost" is using BeLight+BeSweet 1.4)

zacay · Joined: 17 Jul 2005 Posts: 10

GREAT WORK!!!

If I own a mac with OS X, how can I create PMP movies?

I should extract the video and audio from my avi files,
then resize and encode to xvid..

And then use a muxer? But is there one for os x? did you create it first in perl?

Thanx for your work!
I volunteer for graphics, as you know from last thread.

wracks · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

Great tutorial EdwardFMA :)

I'm getting sound stuttering (from what I've read it's to avoid sync problems)

I used bilinear resize, Profile @ Level: AS@L5, Encoding Type: Single Pass, Target Bitrate: 768 kbps

mp3 constante bitrate, 128kbps

great player, hope to see it improve in the future :)

jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

@zacay:

you should find a Perl distribution for OS X, download the muxer source and run something like this in a shell:

perl pmp_muxer.pl video.avi audio.mp3 output.pmp

if you are enough lucky pmp_muxer_tk.pl (the script with graphical interface) will run too.
i'm no able to check this, i know about mp_muxer_tk.pl running on linux with some tiny modifications, but OS X is out of my realm :)

@wracks:

it's probably a too high fps and/or gmc and/or qpel

raptrex · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 9

after i use edwardfma's tutorial and put the audio and video in Jonny's muxer i got a vbr not supported error

jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

have you checked "Restrict Encoder to Costant Bitrate"?
what br are you using?

raptrex · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 9

ya it was restrict encoder to constant bitrate

also i made the tutorial into html for you

http://animelink.be/tutorial.html
or here
http://animelink.be/?page_id=6

wracks · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

just got this:

JimmyZ · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 11

i used a batch file like this:

mencoder "%1" -passlogfile "%2_PMP_2pass.log" -quiet -priority idle -nosound -vf scale=480:272 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=1:vhq=4 -o nul
mencoder "%1" -passlogfile "%2_PMP_2pass.log" -quiet -priority idle -nosound -vf scale=480:272 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts pass=2:vhq=4:bitrate=640 -o "%2_PMP.avi"
mplayer "%1" -quiet -priority idle -novideo -ao pcm:file="%2_PMP.wav"
lame "%2_PMP.wav" -o "%2_PMP.mp3" -b 128
pmp_muxer "%2_PMP.avi" "%2_PMP.mp3" "%2.pmp"

but i only got an error msg like this: "pmp_lib_open: frame size can't be 0"

jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

Theelise · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 8

Hi Jonny/all,

Although the encoding is not a huge problem (have tried and tested the product and works fine for my dvd of LOST) congrats, well done and i must say the quality is quite drastically different when you see them side by side ;-),

1 question i have to anyone here is, it was far easier to just pump already existing avi's into 3gp or pspvideo9 or whatever, it is quick, easy and dirty but always gave good results and was great when leaving the house in a hurry.

Is there a way we can create a new ini for 3gp or settings for pspvideo9 etc to give the highest possbile quality such as

1500kbps video (or new maximum kbps reading)
320kbps Stereo mp3
Resolution 480x272
fps 29.97/23.97 (or whatever we need)
2pass Encoding
etc
etc

As i have the space on my psp and tend to chose quality over quantity (i understand not all will be wanting video of the highest possible quality) i would like to encode my dvd's etc all at the highest quality available in the quickest and easiest manner.

Again i am not complaining, nor do i have any problem encoding using VDM and i am not in any way questioning the PMP Mod, just curious for all the others who want easy drag and drop encoding at the highest possible quality. Is it possible as it is to encode now at standard res?

Cheers

wracks · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

jonny · Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 351

@JimmyZ:

thanks for the detailed post, i've replicated the problem (i've never used mencoder), it seems something related to mencoder (VirtualDub+XviD never write frames with no data, while mencoder seems to do this!)
but i need more investigation :)

JimmyZ · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 11

i tried both mplayer(with xvid 1.2.0dev) and/or vdubmod with xvid 1.1.0final, both fixed quantizer 3, audio by lame3.97beta with constant bitrate 128, none works for me,

muxing the mencoder output i got:
----------------------------------------
Processing video ...
3635 / 3635
dwTotalFrames: 3635
dwWidth: 480
dwHeight: 272
dwScale: 1 <-maybe this is wrong?
dwRate: 24
movi: 4112
Max: 38891
3635 / 3635
Processing audio ...
5802
5802
----------------------------------------
while playbacking, i got "pmp_lib_open: frame size can't be 0"

muxing the vdubmod output i got:
----------------------------------------
Processing video ...
3635 / 3635
dwTotalFrames: 3635
dwWidth: 480
dwHeight: 272
dwScale: 20833333 <-is this ok?
dwRate: 500000000 <-maybe this is wrong?
movi: 8208
Max: 55106
3635 / 3635
Processing audio ...
5802
5802
----------------------------------------
while playbacking, i got "pmp_lib_open: scale > 0xffffff"

i upload my files(official matrix2 trailer) here, hope this will help:
http://jimmyz.3322.org/try.mp3
http://jimmyz.3322.org/try_xvid1.1_vdm.avi
http://jimmyz.3322.org/try_xvid1.2_menc.avi
UPDATE: the mencoder encoded file has been updated to a -vf harddup enabled one, that solved the prob, credits goes to jimparis~