For my PSP friends out there... (PMP AVC vs. XMB AVC) Post A

Battle of the Full-Resolution PSP Video Codecs

PMP Mod AVC vs. PSP XMB AVC

I'd always been a fan of the PMP Mod from day I came across it at PSP Hacks after the first few releases from johnny, then came PMP AVC with full resolution support, sweeet! Only problem was since I first downloaded my first PMP Mod, was a converting videos to PMP format. Got confused using PSP Video 9 and Videora, after one year of searching, experimenting dissappointment came XviD4PSP. It was godsend I tell you'all, besides that it may or may not have crashed my friend's unstable free computer a few times.
Now back home I Australia and using my parents computer (Old skool 1.2GHz AMD Duron with 224MB RAM) while less powerful than my friend's PC, it made up for it with stability.

Pack in XviD4PSP 4104 and my reference video clip of choice.
(Gran Turismo HD replay of Subaru Impreza WRC at The Eiger Nordwand: 10978_gthd_demo_replay_01.wmv {8062kbps 1280X720 122MB 2:17})

PMP AVC Max.- XviD4PSP 3-pass Extreme, PMP-AVC, 16384kbps x264 Video, 256kbps MP3 Audio
XMB AVC- 3gp Converter 2-pass, MPEG-4 AVC, 768kbps AVC Video, 128kbps AAC Audio
PMP AVC Basic- XviD4PSP 1-pass Extreme, PMP-AVC, 768kbps x264 Video, 256kbps MP3 Audio


Left column: PMP AVC Max Centre column: XMB AVC Right column: PMP AVC Basic (CLICK TO ENLARGE: Tabbed browsing does help to compare screenshots.)

For those who took the time to see and compare to video screen shots, both the PMP videos have a edge over the PSP's XMB video. PMP AVC (Max.) takes the cake for quality, to which I add that it could have been better as I tried out the Remastering and SBC options on that on that conversion. As you can see for the PMP AVC (Basic) screenshot shows better detail in the puffy cloud over the hill on the right than both the other videos, which seems I'd picked the wrong options to apply to my video conversion.
Both PMP AVC beat the XMB AVC as you can see simply better detail on the road surface on both the Front and Back stationary shots.


Now let's on forget that about the horrible MPEG-4 player in the PSP, forcing itself to stretch out 320X240 pixels to fit the screen, terrible video quality just sours the experience, detail a complete wash out. Sometimes makes me want to hurt my eyes less by going to watch videos on an iPod, visual nightmare galore. It cam't even show the Gran Turismo HD 'logo' properly, it can dare to crap out such a simple thing, shameful.




Now take in the fact that the file sizes are 96MB (PMP AVC Max), 15MB (XMB AVC), 10MB (PMP AVC Basic) and 4.5MB (MPEG-4). As you can see the PMP AVC Max is 20X larger than the MPEG-4 video and 6-10X larger than the PMP AVC Basic and XMB AVC videos. Which means if you want to get your average 2 hour movie in PMP Mod AVC (Max.), you'll need 6GB of space.
I can forget about doing, and screw the 8GB MS Duo from Sony, if you're smart you'll wait for the rumoured 10GB from SanDisk coming out next month. Hell you can go ahead and put the Lord of the Rings in there.
So space consumption-video quality ratio seems to point to a basic PMP Mod AVC conversion to keep us all happy and jolly.

MPEG-4 while small and quick (speedy if converting via WinAVI) is how I'll conclude as diarrhoea and Maxed out PMP AVC as constipation. So MPEG-4 may be quick but I'll leave you feeling like you shat your guts out and PMP AVC (Max) while top quality but it's a real drag.

So it seems Basic PMP Mod AVC video is the way to go for me.

And to add one other thing the PMP videos are the only ones I've actually managed to sync the sound properly with video.

And talking about CD Ripping...
I've done 3 out of at 40 CDs.

Blog Bucket Startup

jonowee's new blog is now here, had an old one but never got time or resources to edit it.

Just spent the past night ripping my CDs to Ogg Vorbis and painstakingly editing every song's ID tags in iTunes and dropping in my new 320GB HDD cos the 40GB just can't hold all my music, videos and PSP games. I've got a Ogg Vorbis 'plugin' for my Quicktime components but iTunes willn't allow me to directly rip CDs (with 'instant' ID tagging courtesy of iTunes) to OGG.
Some day I'll get a Samsung/iRiver HDD MP3 player to carry around my music, for now I can drop in my PSP running PSPRadio. Samsung made the 'best' MP3 player IMHO the YH-J70L but I say they got greedy and gone all flash music players.

For my friends back in SG, can't find a good pic to show but how about a shot of my room as I'm unpacking and reorganising the quagmire. Small room, even smaller than my sis's room Singapore.
I've somehow managed spill the liquid you collect (in your products like Thirsty Hippo to dry excess moisture in cupboards) in my Dampsord container (which is two year old water in there). I've tried to mop it up and the water has been sitting there for half a week and doesn't look like it's even drying up one bit.
Next attack: Hot water, mop and soap