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I've recently bought a 1Gb MS Duo Pro for taking along some movies to watch on my PSP. At the time, when I remembered that my P910 could also read the same card, I thought "Bonus! If my PSP battery runs down, I can switch to the P910". Both support MPEG4 too...

Not quite that simple. (Although it's closer than I thought)

I've sussed the problem with the different file structures: using the P910's standard File Explorer, I can browse to the PSP directories (call the PSP the primary device, so the movies are optimised for it). I can even click direct on the movie files, and they open in PacketVideo. Not bad!

Only problem is - the movies play back at about a third of the speed on my P910. I assume that it's because the movies are encoded at a bit rate optimised for the PSP, and this is too high for the P910's CPU to handle.

Currently, I use PSPHotpot to encode the movies; it sync's a PC-based "movie" folder with the PSP, re-coding to MPEG4 where necessary. I've got it on the 'Medium' setting, and that must be still too high for the P910.

Has anyone else addressed the same problem and found a simple solution? Right now I'm looking at a number of possibilities:

- Use a third-party player, like Smartmovie (not sure if this plays MPEG4 though), which might be more efficient in playing the movies
- If above, may need to use File Explorer to temporarily move the files into the standard P910 media directory structure
- Re-code the movies using a lower quality setting, which the P910 may keep up with (but will look worse on the PSP)
- Use a different PC-based encoding/syncing program (I know there are a few out there)
- Encode the movies as XViD, using Smartmovie on the P910, and a Homebrew XViD/DiVX player on the PSP (Firmware 1.5) - if there is one
- Any other solution?

Anyone?


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Posted: 2005-09-21 07:09:06
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Just get quicktime pro...
Any movie, export as...3gpp (default settings(15 fps))


No probs!!!, looks alright

Boerke
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Posted: 2005-09-25 02:01:31
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Why not use SmartMovie in the first instance - can u play smartmovie encoded films on your PSP? The quality is sooo much better than MP4s

Jon
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Posted: 2005-09-25 10:47:36
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On 2005-09-25 10:47:36, Jon wrote:
Why not use SmartMovie in the first instance


Well... just because the user experience when "doing things in a PSP-way" is so much nicer! ISTR the only non-MP4 PSP player was DIVX, and I tend to use XViD with Smartmovie. I'll take another look tho!

Thx,


Damian

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Posted: 2005-09-25 11:10:06
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Well... just because the user experience when "doing things in a PSP-way" is so much nicer! ISTR the only non-MP4 PSP player was DIVX, and I tend to use XViD with Smartmovie. I'll take another look tho!


Ofcourse, XVID/3IVX/DX50/DIVX are pretty much interoperable in that each codec can decode material encoded with another; if not otherwise then at least after changing the fourCC code. IMHO DivX6 in Insane Quality does seem to create smaller files with the same quality compared to XVID/3IVX, though it takes twice as long. Plus one can change the encoding quantizer while encoding, useful when VirtualDub(Mod) status window shows a little too big video data rate.

[ This Message was edited by: AnonCrow on 2005-09-25 14:58 ]
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Posted: 2005-09-25 15:55:31
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On 2005-09-25 10:47:36, Jon wrote:
Why not use SmartMovie in the first instance - can u play smartmovie encoded films on your PSP? The quality is sooo much better than MP4s

Jon



Not if you encode mp4 right, then mp4 can be soooo much better quality than smartmovie avi files.....
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Posted: 2005-09-27 03:05:00
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Anon- I have had this small s/w related to making FourCC changes.

But dont know; what its for and how to go about it?

If you can elaborate...

Thanks
-Sailaab
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Posted: 2005-09-30 06:00:00
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