How to convert any video to MP4 iPod, iPhone, PS3, XboX360 using free tools

mkstringer · Member Joined: 23 Dec 2008 Location: Texas, United States

highness, google Daemon tools. It allows you to mount an ISO as a drive letter in the OS.

74bronco · Member Joined: 23 Dec 2008 Location: United States

Ok Noob here, so bare with me please. First of all thanks for this guide it is a great resource, I really appreciate it. I am trying to burn DVDs to my sons PSP. Never thought it would be this hard. I followed the above process and it seemed to work ok, however, when I play the encoded mp4 file in quick time or windows media player there is no audio. Also it turned out to be over 1 GB. Did I miss something in the process above where is the audio?

Couple questions about the XviD4PSP.
1) Can I use this program to pull the data directly off the DVD or is this program used only for converting the VOB file that I got from the DVD decrypter program into the mp4 format.

2) Format selection. For a psp there were 3 different choices. Which one should I use and what are the different formats? The PSP firmware is 5.02

Thanks for any help.

guns1inger · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Location: Miskatonic U

It won't rip a protected DVD unless you have anyDVD installed.

Personally, I rip just the title I want to convert to my HDD, then convert from there. PSP AVC uses H264 for encoding, which will give you higher quality, but will take longer to encode. PSP ASP uses Xvid for video, which will encode much faster, and is better for older PCs. I can't see a difference between AVC and AVC TV.
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FulciLives · Posted: Dec 24, 2008 07:36

I believe that AVC does 480x272 which is the native screen resolution of the PSP whereas AVC TV does 720x480 but since the screen is 480x272 it does make sense that they would look the same.

Except AVC TV would look better on a TV when using the TV out ability of the PSP.

Please note I use XVID4PSP but don't have a PSP

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Cody21 · Member Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Location: United States

Awesome forum !! Noobie here - trying to convert a DVD for playing on my LG DARE cell phone.

There is no specific selection for the LG DARE - but there are for the Blackberry RIMs ....

Curious if anyone knows which specific MP4 is needed for the DARE -- or should I just select the MP4 default (not phone specific) and take all the defaults???? The conversion of a DVD takes a loooooong time to accomplish, so just want to figure this out once without hours of trial and error...

Great Product !! Thank you ..

guns1inger · Member Joined: 01 Apr 2004 Location: Miskatonic U

I have an LG Viewty and used the Prada preset to make playable Divx files. Might be worth a try.
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BrewMasterX · Member Joined: 14 Jan 2009 Location: Germany

noob here...

just downloaded, installed and followed all instructions for an avi - Ipod Nano convert.

Problem is it shows up in iTunes but does not synch or copy to Ipod...any ideas?

ubersoldat · Member Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Location: Bulgaria

Hello all,

i have a very strange problem when trying to convert a dvd (ripped on hdd) with XVID4PSP into MP4 ipod video. The program encodes video and audio and when muxing starts i get this message "Error: " and process stops. What do you thing is the problem ?

cschoon · Member Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Location: United States

Hello,

Ok just wondering; I ripped a dvd with fab5 decryptor. Imported the dvd files to XviD4PSP. On indexing the error popped up YV12 (can't remember exactly) deinterlace codec? But my video is still encoding. Am I going to have problems on playback for my pda. Or what was the error?

Thanks

FulciLives · Posted: Jan 30, 2009 09:15

FulciLives · Posted: Jan 30, 2009 09:20

cburbs · Member Joined: 04 Feb 2009 Location: United States

I am just diving into some of this and want to be able to stream Movies to my Xbox 360. I have Tversity loaded and setup and I used the default settings for Xvid4psp and when I select the file from the Xbox360 it fails to play. I can play the file over the network on my laptop in WMP11.
Which do I need to choose in the audio part as I left it as default but when I use Gspot to look at the file type it shows mp4a: MPEG-4 AAC LC 48000Hz 131 kb/s tot , 6 chnls (3/2 .1) which isn't supported by the xbox 360.

SO which audio option do I choose then?

FulciLives · Posted: Feb 05, 2009 11:19

If the source is 5.1 then it will create a 5.1 AAC-LC audio file even though you have the PS3 / XBOX 360 profile selected.

To change that you have to go into the audio editing option (selectable from a drop down list at the top) and change it to 2 channels and you have to select some sort of downmix (I would select stereo or better yet Dolby Pro Logic II downmix). You probably also want to normalize the audio (I use 98% as 100% could induce clipping).

In short it should end up looking like this:

Make sure you select APPLY and let it do it's thing (might take a lil bit) then when it is done you can select OK and then do whatever (ENCODE) from there.

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cburbs · Member Joined: 04 Feb 2009 Location: United States

Thanks for the info. I will try this again on the same VOB file I originally did.

Then I will compare this against the Handbrake rip to see if I prefer one over the other.

Will Hay · Posted: Feb 07, 2009 12:53

I seem to be getting an error entitled "you don't have YU12 decorder" which I do, or at least think I do as, when I first tried this software a month ago I installed it.
I try encoding [a rip on my HDD] I get the following:

x264 [error]: could not open input file 'D:\Temp\0007.avs'

This is despite opening the VIDEO_TS file within my ripped movie.

Any pointers would be appreciated.
Will

EDIT:

After a bit more searching I seem to have fixed my problem using this method.
Thanks anyway, and thanks for a very useful guide.
Will
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cburbs · Member Joined: 04 Feb 2009 Location: United States

How do I keep aspect ratio of movie - example I ripped I Robot and it is all stretched out.

p_nilly · Member Joined: 28 Apr 2009 Location: United Kingdom

Hi guys, am still very new to all this stuff.

Was wondering, if it's possible to queue a few files for conversion using xvid4psp.

Also, what's the difference between say xvid 2p 512k extreme and xvid 2p 512k ultra?

Thanks

Baldrick · Administrator Joined: 09 Aug 2000 Location: Sweden

Nope, no queue/batch. I would probably use handbrake if you want a queue function.

txporter · Member Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Location: United States

Yes, you can queue in XVID4PSP. Open your first file, set it up however you want it to output. Hit Save instead of Encode. Rinse and repeat. Hit encode when you are ready to go. It is more painful than something like Handbrake because it will need to go through indexing, etc, but you can queue up a bunch of stuff at once.

I have had problems when ripping from files from some DVDs that use multiple program streams rather than separating the episodes into different VTS. For instance, Dexter has 4 episodes per disc (only have CC not subs which is why I used XVID4PSP to burn them in) and I can only do two episodes per discs at a time. If I set up all 4, it will convert the first two but the 2nd two will be skipped.

Jason

Lord of Sound · Member Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Location: Australia

I'm using Prism (http://nchsoftware.com/prism/index.html) for the same purpose for years now.
Easy and fast program. Would love to see a comparison between them all...

carlos28355 · Member Joined: 14 Jun 2009 Location: United States

RuDdOgG · Member Joined: 06 Aug 2009 Location: United States

Hey All...newb here... does Xvid4PSP also convert wmv files that I downloaded from Amazon Video on Demand "unbox" that has DRM?

Any info will be great! Thanks!

ben4vols · Member Joined: 22 Oct 2002

Does anyone know why my audio and video would be out of sync? I followed the guide as it said.

EwanG · Member Joined: 06 May 2002 Location: Texas

OK, XVID4PSP supports MKV to iPhone, which is what I'm looking for. But the subtitles on my MKVs are bundled in, not external. Is there any way to have the tool use the packaged subtitles so I don't have to extract them first every time? If not, is there any other tool that would handle this conversion?

TIA!
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EwanG · Member Joined: 06 May 2002 Location: Texas

Minicoder crashed hard even after going through and making sure everything was updated and it was set to run as administrator. XVID4PSP did not seem to care for the extracted subtitles file created by MKVTools. So, guess I'm SOL

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txporter · Member Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Location: United States

Consider Handbrake. They are in the final testing of the next release that will allow softsubs if you are interested in that, but it sounds like you might be ok with burned-in subs (which the current version 0.9.3 handles fine). Handbrake can read the subtitles and burn them in without needing to extract them first.

EwanG · Member Joined: 06 May 2002 Location: Texas

Installed the current Handbrake. It runs long enough to put up a status window that says something about a Stack Dump, and then closes. Output is a 1K file. Not sure if the problem is running it under Windows 7, or that I have a 64-bit machine and OS, or that I have 12 gigs of RAM, or that it doesn't handle Subtitles embedded in the MKV properly.

But so far I've found no tool that seems to handle this well (if at all). Have to wonder if most folks just give up and try to find DL sites for stuff. I suppose I should be less stubborn and do the same, but I really have to think there ought to be SOME way to do this.
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EwanG · Member Joined: 06 May 2002 Location: Texas

Here's the Handbrake log in case anyone is interested:

EwanG · Member Joined: 06 May 2002 Location: Texas

Sorry for another post, but wanted to add that I've just tried the SVN 2907 version of Handbrake, and that runs and produced a video - but without subtitles. So closer, but still not quite there.
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