480x272 dont work!

[kriss1313]

i tried all the presets and nothig worked... unsupported data
i put them in root/video, adjusted the m3u... nada

if anyone (even devs) managed to play 480 vids on psp (3.30) step forward please and tell the story.



fixed later: set fps to 25, main profile, avc, level 2.1

[themediaman]

I'm guessing that choosing a different framerate from the source video causes problems.

My 29.97 fps content that I converted has no troubles. My 23.97 content that I converted to 29.97 has the "This video cannot be played" error after a few seconds of playback.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Update: I converted one of the Quicktimes from 23.97 fps to 29.97 fps first, and the new MOV converted and plays without any trouble.

When I tried the shortcut of using AVISynth within PSP Video 9, it converted the first few frames then fails, creating a corrupt MP4.

[kriss1313]

true...use the same fps as source

there are 2 places where you must specify the same fps ... tab 1 and tab 2.

[Luide]

I'm having bit of same issue myself:
Converting to 480x272 does not seem to work.
With following off-the shelf options I get following:
(Firmware was 3.40 OL but my current firmware is 3.52 M33, same issues)

Fw3.30 AVC 480x272 768kbps Stereo/128kbps 1-pass
Produces file that is played fine with computer, but if I try to play it on PSP I get "This video cannot be played" error message

Fw3.30 AVC 480x272 768kbps Stereo/128kbps 2-pass
Nada. Stops converting after 5 seconds, probably some FPS issue but as changing the speed is impossible (choosing anything but "original" while editing the profile gives an error)

Fw3.30 AVC 480x272 768kbps Stereo/128kbps Avisynth
Produces file that is playable by computer but soundtrack being out of sync. PSP complains about "unsupported data"

Using the wizard, I get "unsupported data" (widescreen + high quality)
Plays fine on computer

I tried using
http://www.redkawa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2371
but of course using 2-pass filter gave same problem as before.
Using 1-pass gives the "unsupported file type" problem.




I'm out of ideas what to do, should I just suck it up and use 320x240 as it does work?

[nusakan]

For the ones that says unsupported data, check the console log. Generally Unsupported data means it converted and it works BUT there's a setting in the video that the PSP does not like and refuses to play it. See the sticky for more info.

[Luide]

I have read the sticky but unfortunately nothing there is helping with my problems.
Interesting is that some files get "unsupported file type" and others get the "This video cannot be played" with same conversion settings.

I have checked console log, last one was unsupported file type and only thing that looked negative in the log was:
"Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65534/2733) -> 23.98 (2997003/125000)"

But it looks like I have to do 320x240 conversions really as changing framerate does not work, changing it from the dropdown menu will just gives me unhandled exception error:
"System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format."

Below is the full log from console:


EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\mediainfobatch.bat "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\MediaInfo.exe" "C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MediaInfo\parameters.txt" "H:\Mule2\Ergo Proxy\Avi\Ergo.Proxy.EP10.avi"

PlayTime=00:25:44.601

Width=704

Height=396

AspectRatio=1.778

FrameRate=23.979
MediaInfo Command line, MediaInfoLib - v0.7.4.5
MSG - OS - Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
MSG - Converter - Version: 2.25
MSG - Converter - Profile: Fw3.30+ AVC 480x272 768kbps Stereo/128kbps
MSG - MediaInfo - Length: 1544s
MSG - MediaInfo - Width: 704 pixels
MSG - MediaInfo - Height: 396 pixels
MSG - MediaInfo - Aspect Ratio: 1,778
MSG - MediaInfo - Framerate: 23,979 fps
MSG - Converter - Automatically Generating Framerate
EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "H:\Mule2\Ergo Proxy\Avi\Ergo.Proxy.EP10.avi" -f psp -title "ErgoProxyEP10" -timestamp "2007-08-14 08:45:22" -vcodec h264 -s 480x272 -b 768k -bt 768k -bufsize 4000k -maxrate 4000k -g 250 -coder 1 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128k "C:\Documents and Settings\Luide\My Documents\Converted Videos\PSP\MPEG4-AVC\MAQ20029.mp4"

FFmpeg version SVN-r9133, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-liba52 --enable-avisynth --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-x264 --enable-xvid --cpu=i686 --enable-memalign-hack --extra-ldflags=-static --enable-dirac
libavutil version: 49.4.0
libavcodec version: 51.40.4
libavformat version: 51.12.1
built on May 27 2007 19:45:44, gcc: 4.2.0

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65534/2733) -> 23.98 (2997003/125000)
Input #0, avi, from 'H:\Mule2\Ergo Proxy\Avi\Ergo.Proxy.EP10.avi':
Duration: 00:25:44.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 928 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 704x396, 23.98 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, psp, to 'C:\Documents and Settings\Luide\My Documents\Converted Videos\PSP\MPEG4-AVC\MAQ20029.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 480x272, q=2-31, 768 kb/s, 23.98 fps(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]using SAR=136/135
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]using cpu capabilities MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 3DNow!
Press [q] to stop encoding

<SNIP>

video:145167kB audio:24126kB global headers:1kB muxing overhead 0.507554%
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]slice I:160 Avg QP: 8.67 size: 27112
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]slice P:36878 Avg QP:10.03 size: 3913
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]mb I I16..4: 29.3% 0.0% 70.7%
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]mb P I16..4: 6.9% 0.0% 0.0% P16..4: 55.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% skip:38.2%
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]final ratefactor: 17.60
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]SSIM Mean Y:0.9933343
[h264 @ 00AB2A40]kb/s:769.8
EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "H:\Mule2\Ergo Proxy\Avi\Ergo.Proxy.EP10.avi" -f image2 -ss 20 -vframes 1 -s 160x120 -an "C:\Documents and Settings\Luide\My Documents\Converted Videos\PSP\MPEG4-AVC\MAQ20029.thm"

FFmpeg version SVN-r9133, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-liba52 --enable-avisynth --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libogg --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-x264 --enable-xvid --cpu=i686 --enable-memalign-hack --extra-ldflags=-static --enable-dirac
libavutil version: 49.4.0
libavcodec version: 51.40.4
libavformat version: 51.12.1
built on May 27 2007 19:45:44, gcc: 4.2.0

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65534/2733) -> 23.98 (2997003/125000)
Input #0, avi, from 'H:\Mule2\Ergo Proxy\Avi\Ergo.Proxy.EP10.avi':
Duration: 00:25:44.7, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 928 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 704x396, 23.98 fps(r)
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 128 kb/s
Output #0, image2, to 'C:\Documents and Settings\Luide\My Documents\Converted Videos\PSP\MPEG4-AVC\MAQ20029.thm':
Stream #0.0: Video: mjpeg, yuvj420p, 160x120, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 23.98 fps(c)
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Press [q] to stop encoding
frame= 0 fps= 0 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=10000000000.0 bitrate= 0.0kbits/s
frame= 1 fps= 0 q=3.1 Lsize= 0kB time=0.0 bitrate= 0.0kbits/s

video:4kB audio:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead -100.000000%
EXEC: C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Tools\MP4Box\MP4Box.exe -par 1=1:1 "C:\Documents and Settings\Luide\My Documents\Converted Videos\PSP\MPEG4-AVC\MAQ20029.mp4"

[nusakan]

It looks like your converter is creating a MAQ*****.mp4 files... are you putting those files into your VIDEO or MP_ROOT/100*NV01 directory? Those file types ONLY work in the MP_ROOT/100*NV01 directory. Looks like i gotta update my sticky about this one...

[Luide]

Yeah, I keep them in the MP_ROOT/ directory, I tested transferring them to the VIDEO directory but like you said, they don't work from there.

I tested it with plain MPEG4 320x240 conversion and it worked fine. Looks like I just can't get the AVC to work.

[grumqyguy]

I converted a wmv file with legacy video support ticked, placed it in all folders for video, and each one it failed. Unticked the box, placed the converted file in video, all same settings, and voila, worked straight away.