MediaCoder for PSP Tutorial

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This is a brief tutorial on using MediaCoder with Sony PSP. It assumes you have a Sony PSP with firmware 1.50 and are trying to encode a DVD VOB or other video file using PMP Mod AVC 1.02b (with subtitles support). Note that this works with the versions listed below. If you use a different combination (a later release of a software for example) then it might not work, or the results might be different than what is given in this short tutorial.

Software required to be installed:

Visit http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/download.htm Download the latest released MediaCoder (0.5.0-r1). Install it.

Visit http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/dlupdate.htm Download the patch (0.5.0 build 2320) In my case because I have SSE I downloaded this one: (for CPUs with SSE, e.g. Pentium 3/4, Athlon-XP/Sempron) Install it.

Visit http://wordpress.fx-world.org Download PMP Mod AVC 1.02b Place "PMPMODAVC" and "PMPMODAVC%" directories from downloaded zip file in /PSP/GAMES/ directory of memory stick.

visit http://zuggy.wz.cz/dvd.php Download SubRip v1.50 Beta 3a Unzip to a folder where you have easy access to it.

Assume you have a DVD and have VOB files that are not encrypted inside DVDDRIVE:/VIDEO_TS/ directory. If it is encrypted, then you need to unencrypt the VOB files to your harddrive (only if this is legal for you of course).

Run MediaCoder. Click "Add File" icon and search for the VOB file you wish to transcode (either in DVD or in harddrive). Click "Devices" icon. You should get a big PSP screen. Select "MPEG-4 AVC (16:9)" from the Video Format dropdown menu near the left. Video Quality and Audio Quality use "Normal". In the "Output:" select the "..." button and choose a destination for your .pmp file (put it on your harddrive not your PSP memory stick because you don't actually know if the PMP file will be too big for your memory stick). Near the top of your big PSP screen window, there should be nine six square buttons. Click on the "Start" button.

When finished, copy your newly created ???.pmp file and copy it to ms:/PSP/VIDEO/ directory

Subtitling

Run SubRip from where you unzipped the files. Click on the "VOB" icon near the top left of window. Click on "Open Dir" and go to your DVD or hardrive directory where you have the VOB files. Check on the VOB you are currently working on (the one you did the work on above). Uncheck the rest. Make sure "SubPictures to Text via OCR" is selected. Choose the Language stream (For beginners try English) Click "Clear Text File" button if it is clickable. Click on the blue puzzle icon button. Make sure it its MicroDVD option and close this dialog box. Press "Start". The program should as you to enter characters it does not recognize. Simply enter it in the box (if two or more characters are not recognized at one time enter two or more characters in the box). If it is italicized, make sure the "italic" is checked before confirming, and remove italic if it is not italic when asked to input. When done, select "File->save as" from the bottom menu. You can now click on the save button on the bottom right. Choose a destination directory with same name is the .pmp file you copied to your memory stick but with .sub extension. (you can connect your PSP and copy it there directory to ms:/PSP/VIDEO/)

That's it!

BUGS:

Note that the version I tested here had a time synching issue, and you may need to do time extend before you save the .sub file. For a 30 minute .pmp file, it was off about 6 minutes (the subtitle ended 6 minutes before the video did). So Click on the clock icon, then on the second box under "Time stretch/speed adjust" put in 6. (the first box is hours, the second minutes, the third is seconds, the last is miliseconds). Click on the "Correct Time" button. Now save it to your memory stick. Note you have to calculate how much off is your subtitle by experimenting.

For the next VOB, do the same. Use MediaCoder. Then for the subtitling, make sure you clear the text file and adjust the timing.

BUGS: I tried to use MediaCoder on the "whole disc" instead of individual VOB one at a time, but this seems to cause it to prematurely end with some VOB not transcoded. Maybe this will be fixed in the future, but the current way works. Each VOB (1 GB) became about 100MB after finishing. The .sub files were only about 60KB for each .pmp

External Link

More info on the Sony PSP: http://www.edepot.com/reviews_sony_psp.html