Converting a DVD to PSP video using PSP Video 9
EDIT: Im really sorry guys but none of the doom9 downloads work. try going to
Doom9.net - The Definitive DVD Backup Resource then the download link
You will need to download the following:
http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Rippers/...er_3.5.4.0.exe http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/dvdshrink32setup.zip http://www.ripit4me.org/RipIt4Me%20Installer.exe http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/SupportU...isynth_256.exe http://neuron2.net/decomb/decomb522.zip http://neuron2.net/dgmpgdec/dgmpgdec148.zip http://videora.mirror.agprojects.net...o9_Install.exe http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Audio/BeSweetv1.5b31.zip http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Audio/BeLight-0.22beta9.zip
Installation:
- Run SetupDVDDecrypter_3.5.4.0.exe
- Decompress dvdshrink32setup.zip and run dvdshrink32setup.exe
- Run RipIt4Me Installer.exe
- Run Avisynth_256.exe
- Decompress decomb522.zip and copy Decomb.dll to C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\
- Decompress dgmpgdec148.zip into its own directory, like C:\DGMPGDec\
- Run pspVideo9_Install.exe
- Decompress BeSweetv1.5b31.zip into its own directory, like C:\BeSweet\
- Decompress BeLight-0.22beta9.zip into the BeSweet directory
Tutorial:
Step 1 - Ripping the DVD
Insert a DVD into your PC... say Happy Tree Friends. Run RipIt4Me and pull
up the preferences (only need to do this the first time you run it). Make
sure all the "Advanced options" and "FixVTS settings" are checked. If you
don't plan to make a backup DVD using DVD Shrink, uncheck "Run DVD Shrink
after rip" in the "1-Click Mode" options. Set the "Base path for target rips:"
to something like "C:\temp\rips". Now click the "1-Click Mode" button. If the
DVD is a regular movie, set the "Ripping settings" popup control to "Movie
only", or to "Full DVD" if it has several episodes on it. With Happy Tree
Friends, we'll set it to "Full DVD" so we can rip all the episodes. Make note
of the destination directory (change it if you don't like it) and click the
"Next" button. RipIt4Me will now launch DVD Decrypter which will rip the DVD.
After DVD Decrypter is done, RipIt4Me will run FixVTS to "adjust your DVD
files into better DVD compliance." FixVTS was installed by the RipIt4Me
installer.
Step 2 - Making the video project
Run DGIndex from the DGMPGDec directory (depending on how often you make PSP
videos, you may want to make a shortcut on the desktop). Select "Open" from
the "File" menu. Go to the directory where the rip was saved and select a VOB
file. Clicking "Open" will then take you to the "File List" window, which shows
all VOB files currently added to this project. You may add, delete, and reorder
specific VOB files here. Selecting "Open" from the "File" menu will always
bring you back to this window after you have at least one VOB file selected.
If you are ripping a regular movie, just add all the VOB files in numeric
order. If you are ripping individual episodes, you may have to add and remove
various VOB files to find which make the various episodes. Once you have one
or more VOB files selected, click "OK" to get back to the main window. Once
there, you can press F6 to watch the selected VOBs. Press ESC to stop. Playing
the VOB gives you some information you should make note of. Under "Video" make
note of the Aspect Ratio - we'll use it later when we get to PSP Video 9. Under
"Audio" make note of the sound tracks. You'll generally want the first one, but
perhaps not always (if ripping a foreign movie or if you want the director's
commentary). Hint: if you're having trouble locating the VOBs for episodes,
click the "details" control in the open dialog and look at the sizes of the
VOB files. Episodes will be the largest VOBs that are all roughly the same
size. Hint: you can drag the knob at the bottom to quickly scan the whole
project. While dragging the knob around, stop at a frame that seems to
characterize the movie (or episode). Press B to save a BMP of that frame. We
will use it later to make the thumbnail for the PSP video. When you have the
VOBs loaded for the project, select "Save Project" from the "File" menu. This
will save the d2v file we need, as well as extract all the audio tracks. Give
the project a decent name, like the name of the movie (or episode).
Step 3 - converting the audio track
Run BeLight from the BeSweet directory. Again, you may wish to make a shortcut
on the desktop for it. Open one of the audio tracks saved by DGIndex. It will
be in the rip directory where the VOB files were saved. If you have multiple
tracks (English, foreign language, director's commentary, etc), listen to them
with a player program (like VLC) to determine which one you want to use. Once
you've opened it, set the "Azid Settings" to "Normal" if the sound track was
loud enough when you played it. If it's a movie with a large dynamic range (it
has very quiet sections for much of the time with brief very loud sections),
set it to "Heavy" Dynamic Compression. This is particularly important if you
play your PSP in noisy environments. If in doubt, just choose "Heavy". It'll
sound all right in the end. Click the WAV/PCM tab, and choose WAV and "16 Bits
Stereo Wave". Click "Start Processing".
Step 4 - making the avs file
You need an avs file so that PSP Video 9 has an input source for the movie (or
episode). Copy the following in notepad:
loadplugin("C:\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb.dll")
mpeg2source("C:\temp\rips\DVDNAME\name.d2v",cpu=6)
fielddeinterlace()
audio = WAVSource("C:\temp\rips\DVDNAME\track.wav")
AudioDub(last,audio)
Save this as name.avs where "name" is whatever you want the name to be for
the PSP video. An example would be "The Wall.avs". In the above, be sure to
replace "DVDNAME", "name.d2v", and "track.wav" with the actual names you used.
If you didn't use "C:\temp\rips" as the base target path back in RipIt4Me,
change that as well. You might also wish to preview a small clip before doing
an entire 2 hour movie. In that case, add this line to the end of the above:
Trim(0,10000)
That will give you about five and a half minutes for the video. Shorten or
lengthen as you wish. The first number doesn't have to be 0 - Trim(10000,
20000) gives you a 5.5 minute clip starting at 5.5 minutes into the video.
Hint: DGIndex can help generate these avs files. Make a copy of the following
as "C:\DGMPGDec\template.avs"
loadplugin("C:\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb.dll")
mpeg2source("__vid__",cpu=6)
fielddeinterlace()
audio = WAVSource("__aud__")
AudioDub(last,audio)
Trim(0,10000)
When you select that as the template in DGIndex, when you save the project,
DGIndex will also make the avs file, filling in __vid__ and __aud__ with the
proper names (you'll have to change __aud__ a little as we convert the file
to a WAV). This will cut down on how much editing you need to do to make the
final avs file.
Step 5 - making the thumbnail
Open the BMP you saved from DGIndex in Paint. "Save As" a JPEG format file.
That's all... no cropping or scaling or anything is needed, unless you wish
to alter it for some reason.
Step 6 - making the PSP video
Finally! We've reached the part we really care about - actually making a video
we can watch on the PSP. Run PSP Video 9. Click on "Setup" on the left. Set the
"Default Copy Folder" to "AVC". Now set the "One-Click Profile" - here's where
we make use of the aspect ratio we noted in DGIndex. If DGIndex reported the
VOB as 16:9, use an AVC/368x208 mode; if it reported 4:3, use an AVC/320x240
mode. Hint: use 384kbps/96kbps rate modes for good quality/high compression,
and 768kbps/128kbps for high quality/medium compression. in particular, if
you watch your videos in a normal environment, 384/96 should be all you need.
Click on "Convert" on the left. Click "One-Click Transcode" and open the avs
script file we created/edited above. It will now convert the clip represented
by the avs file into a PSP video of the profile we selected. On the 1.6 GHz
Pentium M laptop I use for PSP video encoding, it takes about 1.5 times as
long to encode as the length of the video being encoded. A two hour movie takes
three hours to encode. Note: screwing up the avs file often causes DVD Video 9
to crash, so if it does crash, double-check your avs file for errors. Check
the path and filenames in particular. They are easy to mess up. Note: the 384/
96 profiles make video clips that are about 3.5 MB per minute, so a 7 minute
episode of Happy Tree Friends is about 24 MB in size. The Wall, at 1:35 long
is about 332 MB in size.
Step 7 - setting the video thumbnail
Assuming you did all the above correctly, DVD Video 9 has just transcoded your
video. Click on "Copy" on the left. Select the video in the left panel, then
click the "File Info" tab at the bottom. Click "Thumbnail from File" and select
the JPEG file we created above.
Step 8 - copying the video
Make sure your PSP is connected and set to USB Mode. Click the "Main" tab at
the bottom, click on the video in the left panel, then click "Copy Video to
PSP". Note that DVD Video 9 shows you the disk space on your PSP at the bottom
right. Once it finishes transferring the video, try it out!
Final note:
This tutorial is only presenting the basics in making a PSP video. Following
it should give you a decent video that plays well on the PSP. There are other
things you could do, especially in the AviSynth script. You could add filters
to sharpen, smooth, crop, etc. After you have a handle on making PSP videos
via this method, you can move on the more complex projects.
EDIT: Doom9 apparently uses anti-leech software, so to get the files from Doom9 in the list at the top, you need to go to Doom9's download page and look for it in their list to download it. Sorry about the inconvenience.
this is not my work. it was written by Chilly Willy and posted at the MaxConsole Forum. I thought it was a very well written tut and would like to share it with you.
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