About 700MB Vid upload

[Zephry0]

Alright, I'm downloading a file to my PS3 that's 692MB total. As you can see, it's a movie. I uploaded this and another 692MB movie, and they both came up as Unsupported Data. I'm going to try again, but is there anything special I need to know.

And I used periods between each word in the title, so dont worry about that.

I'm gonna try cutting up the video in WMM and then converting and transfering.

[nusakan]

I got this too and changed some settings in accordance to a guy (sorry for not remembering) who posts here. Using "MPEG-4 AVC 768kbps" as a baseline, what was changed was the Resolution to be hard 720x480 (DVD resolutoin), and Audio bitrate to be at 256. This may or may not apply to you but also added "-async 1 -threads 2" to Custom flags. threads being two because I have a dual core system.

It has worked since.

[Zephry0]

Yea, I use the same settings, but I use 4 threads instead of 2. Will there be any quality difference if I use 2 threads?

Actually, I split up Advent Children into 4-5 pieces of videos, then I converted it, and uploaded them. This works, but the quality sucks! Actually, I'll try making the quality better.

[nusakan]

It won't make a difference quality wise. You should be putting the # of Threads to equal how many cores/processors you have, your system "may" suffer performance wise if you have a higher number.

Increasing the Bitrate on the Video should make the video quality better.

[Zephry0]

How do I know how much cores/processors my computer has? ^^;

Is it OK for me to raise the BitRate? I have it at 768 currently. Maybe I should raise it to 4,000 heh.

What do you think: 2,000 or 4,000kb/s?

EDIT: I'm trying 2,000 right now. But it'll take an 1 and 1/2 hours or more for the process of converting and transfering to PS3 to be completed.

[nusakan]

one way to find out is to right click on your task bar and click on task manager. Or if you're on an XP/2003 system, hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and a window with six buttons will pop up one of them is the task manager button. From there click on the performance tab and in the "CPU Usage history" you should see a graph, the number of graphs you have is the number of processors you have. Don't count the graph that's in the Page File Usage History.

[nusakan]

Quality wise, you don't want to go too far high, just enough to make a difference. You want a quality good enough per size of the file, higher bitrate will equal larger file size. Not only that but the quality is only as good as the original, meaning if you have a DVD and you encode it, in most cases the quality will be dropped due to compression and such, the best quality you can get is matching that DVD, you cannot make it look any better than that. And then when you encode that file you just encode, the best that new file can become is matching that encoded file, even if you set the bitrate to 10000000000000. So don't go overboard on the bitrate. I think the next notch or two should be good enough. I think it was 1024 and 1536?

One last thing lol, when you're converting a video into a higher resolution, you may experience "crappier" quality because you're effectively "stretching" your video a certain way. I guess the only analogy i have is when you have an uninflated baloon that has a logo on it and you stretch the four corners of that logo. It'll still look like the logo but now it's all stretched and doesn't look "exactly" like it when it was uninflated.

[Zephry0]

Oh, there's 2 graphs. So, I should switch to 2 threads, right?

[nusakan]

Oh, there's 2 graphs. So, I should switch to 2 threads, right?

yes that would be correct. just double checking, make sure they're next to each other horizontally and not vertically, because the other graph is your memory useage.

[Zephry0]

They're side by side. And there's a big one below them. So, it's 2.

Well, here's waht I did:

1. Divide the clips up into 6 parts in Windows Movie Maker(WMM).
2. Save the movie file for each at 2.1MB/s (NTSC 720x480)
3. Convert on PS3 Video 9 with 2048 bit rate.
4. Upload to PS3.

I dont know. It didnt work when I uploaded the whole movie by iteself, but it works when I cut it up and upload.

And yea, next options up are 1024 and what else you said, so would those choices(1024 or 1500) be better than 2000??

[nusakan]

They're side by side. And there's a big one below them. So, it's 2.

Well, here's waht I did:

1. Divide the clips up into 6 parts in Windows Movie Maker(WMM).
2. Save the movie file for each at 2.1MB/s (NTSC 720x480)
3. Convert on PS3 Video 9 with 2048 bit rate.
4. Upload to PS3.

I dont know. It didnt work when I uploaded the whole movie by iteself, but it works when I cut it up and upload.

And yea, next options up are 1024 and what else you said, so would those choices(1024 or 1500) be better than 2000??

I can't say it would be better as I haven't tested it myself, I'm just saying that you don't want to go too high because it'll be a waste of hard drive space, you'll start to notice less and less difference in quality as well as more and more of your hard drive space being wasted as you increase the bitrate. A lot of people seem to be happy with just 768 or 1024.

I've never dealt with Windows Movie Maker so I'm not sure what's wrong when you're linking them together. I always do things the LONG instead of an all in one program.

[Zephry0]

Situation:

I converted Advent Children[FULL: NO DIVIDES] with the normal converter settings given(like the ones you use).

It was converted perfectly. But, when I uploaded it to my PS3, like 5 times, it never worked. I even reconverted the file from the original again and tried uploading, but still, it turned out as Unsupported Data.

So, I got the idea to splice the video into parts(where WMM comes in) and upload them invdidually, once converted.

So, I'm not linking them together with WMM, I'm splitting it.