PSP won't recognize my movie from ffmpegx PSP preset

[drewson99]

I used the PSP preset, and my PSP gives me an error when I try to play the movie. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to change a setting? I have it in the right folder structure.

The only thing I didn't do is create a new thumbnail. I took an old thumbnail and renamed it to the new video number. I really doubt the THM file is the problem, but if anyone could tell me what is going on that would be great.

BTW - how do you create THMs for your ffmpegx output files?


-Andy

[ZippyUK]

I used the PSP profile on 8 tv episodes today, they all play fine.

I created the THM files 160x120 pixels JPG in PhotoShop Elements 3.

[drewson99]

Oh yeah, my source is .dv and .avi files I exported from iMovie. Just in case that makes a difference in any advice you may have.

[major]

Make sure you select again the PSP preset after you load each file and before you hit the encoding button.

[warmace]

The thumbnail is a 160x120 image file with the file extension changed to THM. I know that JPEGs work although I believe other formats work as well. I usually use Quicktime Pro to export the frame that I want then use Photoshop to crop and scale it. If you do use a video editing program, make sure you don't save it with custom icons, etc. These just add to the file size. I sometimes use altshiva to create simple thumbnails. I could never get it's PSP MP4 encoding to work but it does have simple thumbnail generator under the PSP tab. Find the frame you want, click "Take THM from Current Preview" them click "Do Optimize Only".

[drewson99]

Unfortunately, when I re-select the preset it resets the pixel values at 320x240 and I want a 368x208 output.

Oh, and I tried it anyway (reselecting the preset before encoding) and it still says incompatible data format when I put the file on my PSP.

I am using PSPVideo9 and it works fine, but I would much rather cut out the "middleware" and just use ffmpegx if I can solve this issue.

-A

[warmace]

I just tried an AVI export from iMovie encoded with default PSP preset and it worked fine on my PSP. Maybe try redownloading ffmpegx and the new binaries? If you could give some more info about your setting or provide samples of your source material maybe we can figure this out.

[drewson99]

I just d/l ffmpegx day before yesterday, and the binaries from the same page. I am capturing 720x480 DV from my camcorder (Sony passthrough) into iMovie, and "sharing" from iMovie to "Full Quality DV" and I also tried AVI (settings: NTSC DVPRO)

The encode process seems to work (It doesn't give me an error when I hit encode button)

But if I try to play the mp4 with quicktime I get no video, only sound. If I put it on my PSP, I get incompatible data type error.

I will see if there is any other info I can give you when I get home this evening, but I think this is it.

-A

[major]

Make sure you first open the DV file, then select the PSP preset (not the opposite), then encode.

[warmace]

I tried some encodes with the NTSC DVPRO settings and got the same result as you. Even the movie seems to encode fine, clicking the "i" button reveals the following error:

[xvid @ 0x4199e0]XviD: Color spaces other than 420p not supported

The file I tried previously was a iMovie AVI compressed with the Cinepak codec. I tried several other settings without success so try exporting with Cinepak. This seems to work although the iMovie export is much slower than with DVPRO.

[drewson99]

I used the PSP profile on 8 tv episodes today, they all play fine.

I created the THM files 160x120 pixels JPG in PhotoShop Elements 3.

Zippy: are you using version "t" ?