High quality video encoding for PSP with HandBrake (by reprep)

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27 Responses

  1. wolf says:

    Do you think people are dumb and they don’t know how to convert videos to their PSP??? Well then u r dumb to post this tutorial….tutorials these days totally su ck . plz stop this sh it . icant take this anymore . visit the site daily just to watch crappy posts

  2. gunblade says:

    Cool. Tried making videos for my psp a bunch of time.

  3. lollypop says:

    i dont like handbrakes.
    what happened with psp video 9 ?

  4. bubbles2 says:

    bubbles is back in bubbles two the popping staring cheese sauce man and mushroom car hat.

  5. Rolenzo says:

    I have a soft spot in my heart for psp video. It was all I had for the hardest time in my life. Theres lots of better alternatives out there nowadays. But its hayday was before smartphones blew up and it stomped all over the ipod video player at a fraction of the cost.

    The psp sure evolved like crazy during its life cycle. Nostalgia.

  6. piotrekhenry says:

    Where did you get all those resolutions ? The PSP is LIMITED to 368 x 208 (and lower resolutions) for MP4/MPEG and to 720×480 for h264 with no available resolutions between those. The bitrate is also limited to 768kbps as well as framerate is limited to 15, 29,97 fps which you failed to mention in your tutorial.

    • reprep says:

      no, it is not. These silly restrictions are removed on latest firmwares. Just try 480×272 with 23.976 fps and your encode will be fine. PSP can also handle up to 20 mbit (yes, i am not kidding). If you want further proof, i can send you a sample video.

  7. BahamutBBob says:

    I remember the first time I encoded a video to play on my PSP. I ripped my Iron Man DVD, and I had a weak laptop at the time, so it took about 6 hours to convert. Then, when I tried to watch it on my PSP, the sound was way too low, even at max volume. I decided it wasn’t worth the effort at that point, but I can see the appeal of doing this.

  8. Darth Agnon says:

    I have used “DVD Decrypter” and “Handbrake” (plus VLC player for vital codecs) (for what, I can’t say 😉 )

  9. Nezumi says:

    Hey, can you make tutorial for vita?

    • Patrick Lozano says:

      Why would you need that? I mean…you can watch your pc’s videos without copying them to the vita just by using CMA/OCMA give it a try

    • reprep says:

      you can go up to 1080p video on Vita. it is a great video player. It also supports the High Profile which PSP doesn’t. I can do one and put in tutorial section.

  10. ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つbubbles༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ says:

    giff us bubbles

  11. Guild says:

    Because streaming it instantly to your HD smartphone is just too much work, am I right? MX Player and a place to download from is all you need to start streaming videos. And if you’re going to go through all that work, why not just use that PSPVC? It was made specifically for this.

    • reprep says:

      not everybody has smart phone and i know there are a lot of converter applications out there. I chose handbrake because it is available on Pc/Mac/Linux, it is simple to use but also gives you advanced control over x264 settings. this way i can fine-tune it for high quality.

      • Guild says:

        That’s all fine and good (well, everything up until the last sentence and a half), but with the extremely tiny demographic of people that this would be practical for, I can’t understand why this won anything. It’s only useful for people who don’t have a smartphone, and (going back to that sentence and a half) is more complicated than it needs to be. You don’t need the power that handbrake gives you. We’re talking about a 4 inch 480×272 LCD screen, not the latest 50 inch Super AMOLED 4xHD Ultra Integrated Graphical Plasma Flatscreen TV. As long as there are no compression artifacts, you wouldn’t be able to find a difference between a fine-tuned video and a regular video (one that took half an hour less to configure and process) even if you looked for it.

        • Guild says:

          Just to be clear, I’m not saying that this isn’t a decent tutorial. I just can’t understand how this is the best the month had to offer. I don’t have anything against you or your tutorial.

        • Your Momma says:

          Dude, don’t be a ***.

          The tutorial is for PSP owners. Don’t have one? Get lost.

  12. ExCo says:

    Thanks for the great tutorial, Handbrake seems to be the most up-to-date solution in regards to PSP conversion right now. The PSP screen is still very serviceable (especially the Go’s) so this will be handy!

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  14. Julien says:

    Hello
    I used your settings, video is OK when i play it on my Macbook, but on my PSP audio is out of sync.
    Any ideas to solve this problem please ?
    Thx