Tutorial for creating videos for the PSVita

[jd20dog]

if you have a old computer just upload your video to YouTube and it converts it for you
then use a program called jdownloader to re download it in mp4 720p(vita wont play 1080 and up as the system starts saying its an unsupported video format)

open jdownloader then minimize it then open your browser and open the YouTube video you want to download, copy the URL of the video,re open jdownloader and jdownloader will automatically add all the versions of the video to the link grabber list, just find the highest quality mp4 file you can with 720 being the biggest the vita will play automatically, right click and click "continue with selected file(1)"
then after its downloaded, right click the file in the download list and click "open file directory" and move the file to what ever folder you have content manager set to look in for videos, then just use your vita to add it to the vita memory card

this has worked sense before the YouTube app was released and im asuming they just used it as the base for the app's video codec

i in no way intend for this method to be used for piracy or stilling copyrighted material
(this includes amv's as music is copyright of the receptive artist) or naka tileele's minecraft videos in an attempt to fool your friends into thinking you got minecraft working on the vita lol
man i had them going for about 7 min, i never laughed so hard in my life

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[kthx0r]

if you have a old computer just upload your video to YouTube and it converts it for you
then use a program called jdownloader to re download it in mp4 720p(vita wont play 1080 and up as the system starts saying its an unsupported video format)

open jdownloader then minimize it then open your browser and open the YouTube video you want to download, copy the URL of the video,re open jdownloader and jdownloader will automatically add all the versions of the video to the link grabber list, just find the highest quality mp4 file you can with 720 being the biggest the vita will play automatically, right click and click "continue with selected file(1)"
then after its downloaded, right click the file in the download list and click "open file directory" and move the file to what ever folder you have content manager set to look in for videos, then just use your vita to add it to the vita memory card

this has worked sense before the YouTube app was released and im asuming they just used it as the base for the app's video codec

i in no way intend for this method to be used for piracy or stilling copyrighted material
(this includes amv's as music is copyright of the receptive artist) or naka tileele's minecraft videos in an attempt to fool your friends into thinking you got minecraft working on the vita lol
man i had them going for about 7 min, i never laughed so hard in my life

Nice, thanks for the tip... Love how you tricked your friends with the minecraft videos LOL.

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[person21]

Hi first post on this forum and i am thinking of getting a vita with one of the main reasons being able to watch crisp HD videos on a oled screen.

Anyway i saw one of your examples being:

Exploration Flight Test-1 Animation
Original file size (Resolution 1280x720) - 86.9mb
Encoded mp4 at 1280x720 - 19.5mb
Encoded mp4 at 960x544 - 14.8mb

From my understanding if i convert some .mkv files i already have to mp4 will it really decrease the file size (say a 14gb 720p mkv files) to around 3-4gb?And how does the quality fair when converting mkv to mp4,i understand mkv is the best but with such a large difference in file size and the fact that vita memory comes at a heafty premium this is very important when i consider purchasing a vita

[thebudds]

Hi first post on this forum and i am thinking of getting a vita with one of the main reasons being able to watch crisp HD videos on a oled screen.

Anyway i saw one of your examples being:

Exploration Flight Test-1 Animation
Original file size (Resolution 1280x720) - 86.9mb
Encoded mp4 at 1280x720 - 19.5mb
Encoded mp4 at 960x544 - 14.8mb

From my understanding if i convert some .mkv files i already have to mp4 will it really decrease the file size (say a 14gb 720p mkv files) to around 3-4gb?And how does the quality fair when converting mkv to mp4,i understand mkv is the best but with such a large difference in file size and the fact that vita memory comes at a heafty premium this is very important when i consider purchasing a vita

Sorry, my computer has been down in a few weeks and I barely got my replacement video card today so I haven't really bothered much with my tutorial.

Ah yes...some really great questions, and luckily for me I can answer them. I too find myself in the battle of quality vs. file-size and it of importance (me having a 8gb ) Mkv's indeed are huge depending on the source material, yet as described in my tutorial. By choosing the lowest Codec preset as shown in the video encoding options of picture 3 you can fiddle around with what you find to be your sweet spot. I myself as shown in the picture choose the very slow option to ensure quality in my encodes.

One example as follows...

A file I encoded was originally 1753mb plus the audio track which was 243.2mb (this is a mkv file plus flac for the audio)

...and I ended up with a encode of 347mb

You might find that high, but you must understand I take a higher quality trade-off over file-size yet I still find that pretty acceptable in terms of keeping high quality in a small package. As noted though with the codec preset you can even get a smaller file-size then that.

@ everyone else

I'm gonna be doing some revisions.

[person21]

Hi thanks for the reply,no problem i actually wrote that post just yesterday so seems like a pretty fast reply to me haha.

I can see that converting to mp4 really does save so much memory and i didn't think the file size would be so different compared to mkv as mp4 quality is up there with the best (as far as i can tell)

I don't really watch that many movies or anything but the one thing i would really like to keep on the ps vita (if i do indeed end up purchasing) was some bbc wildlife documentrys,they relax me and make me look into this world in a different light.So yeah i currently have about 10 episodes of this documentary that are mkv at 14gb total,i could probably only afford a 16gb vita memory card so i was put off from the idea of getting the vita when i know i would have actually no room left for any games also,but now i read this thread about conversion and mp4 i've gone from 50% sure i want a vita to about 75-80%.

See the thing is i will be travelling to a country that doesn't sell ps vita games so if i wanted to purchase games for the vita i would have to download them all to the memory stick,but i don't want to have to delete the documentry's i like to keep on it every time i want to play a particular game,that would seem to be a nightmare,it's still a tough call and i think for someone like me who rely's solely on the memory card to store everything i think even 16gb is really a stretch seeing as how some vita games come in at 3-4gb (i know uncharted is) so i would probably have to purchase a 32gb card,but then is the price justified for what im getting.

Sorry for making this a should i buy a ps vita post from this thread is just about converting videos but just saying how i feel at the moment.

[artmaze7]

I use Sony Vegas Pro 11 for my HD video editing!

[gdsh]

nice nince!

[kdu78]

Thank you.

[Zyrkl]

Very nice, and detailed tutorial. Thanks for sharing. This is just what I was looking for

[xplummerx]

Excellent tutorial...I'm very happy with the results I'm getting from my videos. Thanks for posting!