Well this is my first guide for this wonderful PSP Resource Site that a friend gave me. And with all this wonderful information, I decided that I wanted to contribute my own guide. In this guide, I will walk you through ripping your DVD to a format that will be compatible with the PSP.
Requirements
• PSP
• Memory Stick DUO (preferably 512MB to 1GB for best quality)
• DVD Drive
• DVD
• About 2-8GB of HDD Space
• SmartRipper
• PSP Video 9
Getting started
Now first thing you need to do is decide on what DVD you want to rip. This can be anything from a 2 hour movie to an episode of your favorite TV show. Now obviously, depending on the length of your video, the size of the file will be larger. So be prepared to make room for these files on your computer.
Now you need to put your DVD into the DVD drive of your computer. Now start up SmartRipper. It will check the drive to see if it can read the files or not. If all works you will get a new window with a lot of stuff on it. Now first thing you need to do is click on the Settings button. Under File - Splitting, select max-filesize and under max-filesize type 9999. Hit Ok to save the settings. Now on this screen, you will see some words like Program Chain, Angle 1, etc. Now one of the angles in the Program Chain will be highlighted. This will also have a timestamp in [] next to it. This is your main movie.
Now most likely, you only want one language and you speak that language so no subtitles are needed. So click the Stream Processing tab and click on Enable Stream Processing. Now you will see stuff like Audio English, Subtitles Espanol, etc. Select the Audio you want and uncheck all the others. Also uncheck all the subtitle streams. Now after this is done, click on the Folder at the bottom of the window and pick a file name for the DVD files and select a folder to save them in. Make this file name something relevant, like Family Guy - 01 - Death Has A Shadow. You will need this for the PSP to know what the video is. When all of this is configured click the Start button. Now the ripping process may take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. It all depends on how fast your computer is. After it's all done, close the program.
Almost there
Now it's time to open up PSP Video 9. First thing you need to do is hook up your PSP to your computer via a USB Cable. After you do this click on Setup on PSP Video 9 and on PSP Drive, click Auto Find. You can also specify a different video output directory, but it's not necesary. You can also change the Default Profile to your liking. I prefer 368x208, 29.97fps, 768kbps Stereo, 128kbps myself, but it's up to you. The resolution (e.g. 320x240) is how your video will look. 320x240 is standard, and 368x207 is widescreen (native PSP resolution). Take your pick between the two. Now you need to decide on the bitrate (e.g. 768kbps). The higher this is, the better the quality, but the larger the file size. So i'd recommend 768kbps for someone with a 512MB stick, and 1500kbps for someone with a 1GB stick. You'll want to leave the framerate at 29.97fps and the audio bitrate at 128kbps for the best quality.
Now that you've picked your video settings, click Convert at the top of the window and click Convert New Video. Now you just need to pick the VOB file that you ripped with SmartRipper. Once you select the video file, the encoding will start automatically with your defualt settings. When it's done, click on Copy and you will come to a PC and PSP file browser window. Now click the video file you just made (should look like M4V10001.MP4) and click on Copy Video to PSP. After you do this you can watch your new DVD video on your PSP via your Memory Stick!
PSP Video 9 has a feature called "Profile Picker" which gives you an estimate of file size after transcoding. You select which quality level of encoding from a drop down menu, plug in the length of the movie, press "calculate" and it will spit out a file size estimate for the mp4.
If you use the default profile "movie (0-2h)", which provides pretty decent quality, minimal artifacting, good sound, would probably come back as around 380-400meg for a 90 minute movie.
but every time i use PSP Video 9 when it is at 100% it is still converting...is it normal? and is there any way to get the movie on 1 .vob file instead of four?
Yeah, it's normal for it to take way beyond when the bar gets full. The trick is to watch the processing ticker. Check the file size of the VOB file you are converting. When the file size meter equals the size of the file being converted (not exactly sure if it's exact to the file size or not), it will be finished with the first pass. When it does it's second pass, it will stop when it reaches the size of the MP4 file you are creating.
To get only 1 file, I use DVDdecrypter to open the DVD (you just launch DVDdecrypt and it auto opens whatever's in the DVD drive), then use Smart Ripper to find just the one file you want (the "angle" file that is the longest is usually the movie), when it rips it will rip the whole movie into one file.
Smartrippper won't download...any suggestions. It already showed me all the possible reasons for not downloading but none of them seem to be the problem.
You don't really need to use both DVDecrypter and Smartripper. You can just use DVDecrypter. Once you have the dvd loaded, switch to file mode. Go into the options and set file splitting to none. You will also need to enable Stream Processing and only choose the language and subtitle options you want. This will rip the movie into one file with only the language and subititles you want. It basically means a little bit more setup in DVDecrypter, but then you don't need to also use Smartripper.
Ok I need some help here, I am trying to use PSP9 to convert DVD to PSP. I can get the file to the machine, but the sound and video are out of sync. Any suggestions?
you must be a member to reply or post. signup or login
PSP411 | Top
PSP411.com is not an official site affiliated with Sony in any way.
Content and graphics Copyright 2004-2009 PSP411.com
All rights reserved. | Contact | RSS
