PS3Video9 - Video Conversion

[btc]

This app is designed to convert any video source (including DVDs though you will need to remove the protection yourself) to PS3 applicable formats.

With a bit of minor tweaking (overwriting one file) you can make this a great Nokia N95 (and possibly others) video converter.

Download
PS3Video9 - http://www.redkawa.com/videoconverters/ps3video9/
Updated File - http://www.meaz.org/stuff/ps3video9.zip

Instructions

• Download PS3Video9 and install.
• Download ps3video9.zip and extract it to (assuming you used a default install location):
  C:\Program Files\Red Kawa\Video Converter\Profiles\Video
• Run PS3Video9
• Under Settings/Devices/PS3 change the location of where MPEG4 videos are outputted to whichever folder you wish
• Click Convert
• Click Current Conversion
• Click Convert Video
  Select your video to convert
• Drop down Profile and choose one of the Nokia ones I prepared
  There are 12 profiles in all which are the sum of 3 bitrates, 2 sizes (small and large) and 2 formats (4:3 and 16:9)
  Choose whichever is applicable to you based on size, quality and resolution
• Click Start

Quality Findings
If you are just going to watch on your phone and not output to the TV, the Nokia 768kbps Small profiles are fine.
For TV output I would suggest using Nokia 1536kbps Large. During output from the encoding tests below the picture quality was good on a 42" plasma. Some minor artifacting could be seen but not much and this was on large areas of black which likely made it easier to see.

Encoding Times/Sizes
I did a brief test of the first 30 seconds of the latest episode of 24 and then ran it through some sample conversions. Time taken to convert is in brackets after the size). I've also attached screenshots so you can compare quality. As you will see, you cannot really see any difference, the only time you can is when outputting to a TV.

Original XVID - 5224kb


Nokia 128kbps 16:9 Small - 932kb (10s)


Nokia 128kbps 16:9 SmHQ - 922kb (18s)


Nokia 256kbps 16:9 Small - 1408kb (10s)


Nokia 384kbps 16:9 Small - 1884kb (10s)


Nokia 768kbps 16:9 Small - 2429kb (10s)


Nokia 1024kbps 16:9 Small - 2429kb (13s)


Nokia 1024kbps 16:9 Large - 4165kb (13s)


Nokia 1536kbps 16:9 Large - 5622kb (20s)


Nokia 1536kbps 16:9 Ultra - 5467kb (49s)


Updates/Comments
There are other settings that could possibly be used during conversion for even better quality to TV outputting.
If I find them I'll update this post with details and a new ps3video9.zip.

Hopefully this will be of use to some people.
If you like it or have any comments, please post :)

[Vendian]

Thats some hot sauce right there :P Now all I need is an N95 to put those videos on... :(

[pseudofinn]

Very nice- Thank you. Can't wait to get my N95 and hook it up! I'll probably start encoding a bunch of videos this week for the imminent arrival of my Multimedia Computer. :D

[Salman]

Thanks alot man! :)

[btc]

Cheers guys!

Added a new profile, "Nokia 1536kbps 16:9 Ultra".
The minor artifacts are pretty much gone with this profile, but you pay in encoding time (Large = 20s, Ultra = 49s!). Ive updated the old zip so redownload and overwrite as per the instructions above.

Also, all the other profiles use 128kbps audio, Ultra uses 192kbps.
What is surprising is that the file size for Ultra is slightly smaller than the Large one :shock:

I'll now test this profile on the one thing that killed the other ones for TV output, gaming movies.
As they have lots of changes per frame its harder to get a good encoding. Large was OK, but Im keeping my fingers crossed Ultra will be almost perfect. I'll update my findings once encodings finished!

[btc]

Just converted 30 seconds of a gaming movie.
It took 84s and is very good quality using the Ultra profile!

[btc]

One more thing I forgot to mention :)
Regardless of source, if the video is bigger than 640x? it will resize it for you.

4:3 = 640x480
16:9 = 640x360

[salada2k]

Thanks very much for the info! I converted a couple of movies and the quality on the phone screen is AWESOME! :D

[xxxstarmanxxx]

Thanks for those profiles -

I've just dumped my psp as a video player for this phone .

Very impressed with playback quality

Thanks again

J.

[pseudofinn]

See- I kept the PSP for video playback- but now it's just basically permanently mounted on my dash in the car and I'll take the N95 with me.