Conversion process - What am I missing

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Cheers. This is very useful info.

- One important discovery that I made (a feature people will start asking for at some point) is how to get the name of the recording to appear correctly when viewed on the PSP. (So, The Bernie Mac Show is listed as such on the PSP Video Menu rather than MV4xxxxx.MP4.) To do this you will need to use the flag "-title string" where string is equal to the name of the show. Conceptually I can see how this can be acheived. Sadly, passing a unique show name to FFmpeg for each converted file is WAY beyond my programming ability so I won't be of much help there.

I'll make sure you can do this in the next build.

- And just to re-iterate, the proper naming format for a PSP video file is M4Vxxxxx.MP4 where x is a unique string of 5 numbers. Also, as I understand it, the letters must be capitalized.

I'll probably leave this to user.

[daphatty]

Cheers. This is very useful info.

Great, glad to be of help. One thing I forgot to mention about the profiles.xml file I posted is the file is from a slightly older version of PSPV9 (1.6 IIRC). It's still a great example of the types of settings you can use and they have been proven to work.

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I'll probably only include one or two default profiles, but there user can always edit them or add additional ones if they want to.

[sub]

daphatty, any chance you could try editing your config.xml and set it to include:

Code:

<CustomFFmpegConversions>
    <Conversion name="XviD" cmd="-i {SOURCE_FILE} -f avi -vcodec xvid -b 1250 {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".avi" />
    <Conversion name="Video Ipod" cmd="-y -i {SOURCE_FILE} -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -s 320x240 -r 15 {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".mp4" />  
    <Conversion name="Sony PSP" cmd="-y -i {SOURCE_FILE} -bitexact -vol 256 -vcodec xvid -s 368x208 -r 29.97 -b 1500 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 24000 -ab 64 -f psp -muxvb 768 {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".mp4" />
    <Conversion name="Mobile .3GP" cmd="-i {SOURCE_FILE} -acodec aac -vcodec mpeg4 -s qcif -aspect 4:3 -hq {DEST_FILE}" targetExtension=".3gp" />
  </CustomFFmpegConversions>

I havnt tried it, but it should do the job.

[daphatty]

Sure thing. I'll edit it now.

[daphatty]

First test results with the new setting - Failed. Here's an excerpt.. Full log attached.

11/30/2005 10:00:47 PM.187 VERBOSE [20] About to start transcode of: D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_21302200.mpg
11/30/2005 10:00:47 PM.187 VERBOSE [20] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/AutoConvertMpgToFormat
11/30/2005 10:00:47 PM.187 VERBOSE [20] getValue: /settings/AutoConvertMpgToFormat : Sony PSP
11/30/2005 10:00:47 PM.187 VERBOSE [20] About to run transcode command: C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -y -i "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_21302200.mpg" -bitexact -vol 256 -vcodec xvid -s 368x208 -r 29.97 -b 1500 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 24000 -ab 64 -f psp -muxvb 768 "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_21302200.mp4"
11/30/2005 10:01:47 PM.218 INFO [20] File transcode has completed unsuccessfully...

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If you open a command prompt and run exactly the following command (cut and paste), what output do you get?

Code:

"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_21302200.mpg" -bitexact -vol 256 -vcodec xvid -s 368x208 -r 29.97 -b 1500 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 24000 -ab 64 -f psp -muxvb 768 "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_21302200.mp4"

[daphatty]

Here ya go. I think the item in bold at the bottom is what you are looking for.

C:\Documents and Settings\user>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\
ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_213022
00.mpg" -bitexact -vol 256 -vcodec xvid -s 368x208 -r 29.97 -b 1500 -acodec aac
-ac 2 -ar 24000 -ab 64 -f psp -muxvb 768 "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon
Cartoon_20051130_21302200.mp4"
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4743, Copyright © 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac -
-enable-xvid --enable-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-gpl
--enable-memalign-hack
built on Feb 22 2005 04:58:29, gcc: 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_213
02200.mpg':
Duration: 00:12:33.9, start: 0.333833, bitrate: 4026 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x480, 29.97 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe: unrecognized option
'-vol'

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Can you try running the command again, with the "-vol 256" removed?

Code:

"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_21302200.mpg" -bitexact -vcodec xvid -s 368x208 -r 29.97 -b 1500 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar 24000 -ab 64 -f psp -muxvb 768 "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_21302200.mp4"

[daphatty]

Ok. I ran the updated profile and FFmpeg returned another unreconized option error (see first entry).

C:\Documents and Settings\user>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\
ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_213022
00.mpg" -bitexact -vcodec xvid -s 368x208 -r 29.97 -b 1500 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar
24000 -ab 64 -f psp -muxvb 768 "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_2
0051130_21302200.mp4"
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4743, Copyright © 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac -
-enable-xvid --enable-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-gpl
--enable-memalign-hack
built on Feb 22 2005 04:58:29, gcc: 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_213
02200.mpg':
Duration: 00:12:33.9, start: 0.333833, bitrate: 4026 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x480, 29.97 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\ffmpeg.exe: unrecognized option
'-muxvb'

So I ran a second test without the offending option and FFmpeg returned a new error. I'm not entirely sure what this second error means.

C:\Documents and Settings\user>"C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\Third Party\FFmpeg\
ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_213022
00.mpg" -bitexact -vcodec xvid -s 368x208 -r 29.97 -b 1500 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ar
24000 -ab 64 -f psp "D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_213
02200.mp4"
ffmpeg version 0.4.9-pre1, build 4743, Copyright © 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard
configuration: --enable-mp3lame --enable-vorbis --enable-faad --enable-faac -
-enable-xvid --enable-mingw32 --enable-a52 --enable-dts --enable-pp --enable-gpl
--enable-memalign-hack
built on Feb 22 2005 04:58:29, gcc: 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
Input #0, mpeg, from 'D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_213
02200.mpg':
Duration: 00:12:33.9, start: 0.333833, bitrate: 4026 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x480, 29.97 fps
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 224 kb/s
Output #0, psp, to 'D:\Recordings\Cartoon Cartoon\Cartoon Cartoon_20051130_21302
200.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Video: xvid, 368x208, 29.97 fps, q=2-31, 1500 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 24000 Hz, stereo, 64 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?)

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