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numchuckskills · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 35

When I first got a memory stick big enough to put movies on the first thing I did was try to put a two hour long movie onto it. I was using my Mac so using PSPVideo9 was out of the question. So I figured that using Quicktime Pro to export the movie in the MPEG4 format would work. However, after exporting the video and putting in the correct directory (I know it was the right one because I checked it about 7,962 times...) it showed up as Corrupted Data. I know there is a thumbnail file with the .THM extension(?). But that can't make the file corrupt, can it. I know the music files can have album art but even if there isn't one it just shows a generic number. Please help with that.

And my other question, after my experience with the Mac I tried to do it on my Windows machine. I used PSPVideo9 to transcode the film and got the .THM file, put them both in the correct directory, only this time the movie didn't show up as corrupted it just doesn't play. When I launched the movie I just get a black screen. The menu pops up when I push triangle but the functions don't do anything. I tried the "Jump To" option with no results. And the only way to get back to the PSP main menu is to take the freakin' battery out because the home button does nothing. Please help me!
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ggerm · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 8

Actually, after using the programs on both platforms I prefer using ffmpeg for the mac. It now has a PSP setting and will come from pretty much any format (including vob).

numchuckskills · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 35

Thanks for the tip... Before I got a chance to check for a reply I found PSPware, it sucks something terrible... I'll give ffmpeg a shot... thanks again
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Guest · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 11:48 am Post subject:

Quicktime Pro 6.x, at least, won't produce compatible movies. I haven't tried Quicktime 7 yet, if anyone has heard it is compatible I would be interested to hear.

I would search on these forums for well established threads on making movies. There are huge amounts of info here, but a few months buried back.

ggerm · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 8

QT7 is indeed compatible. ffmpeg is much nicer for converting though.

numchuckskills · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 35

FFmpeg is really floating my boat now... That PSPware sucks the big one. I can't get the thing to freakin' work. Anyway, humor me. Why won't Quicktime 6.x produce compatible movies? It exports to MPEG4, and MPEG4 is MPEG4, right?

One more thing, is there a Mac program that produces .thm files?
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Guest · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject:

Actually, no. MPEG4 is not MPEG4, so to speak.

There are huge variations within the MPEG4 standard, and I believe the PSP specifically focuses on the newer H.264 and 3GPP standards and related codecs with MPEG4. My understanding is that QT6.x wasn't perfectly aligned with the way Sony was doing things, and that was supposed to be fixed in QT7 (which I guess is now confirmed just now by psppet).

I have not chosen to delve into all the ins and outs of video codec standards so I can't give any more than vague details.

I do recall there was alot of discuss about QT and PSP in the apple support forums for Quicktime. You could check there, should be alot of video production monkeys that know everything. :)

ggerm · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 8

You are mostly there. QT6 didn't support the H.264 codec at all. QT7 does.

Oh, and I'm one of the video production monkeys in the Apple forums.

numchuckskills · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 35

So one last thing for my PSP video needs... Any idea how to create those nifty little .thm files on a mac? I googled all over the place and came out with nothing?

Thanks pals...
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Danj · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject:

numchuckskills · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 35

That's what I read on another forum but it didn't work. I tried to make a .thm for Napoleon Dynamite. I opened the original picture in Photoshop CS, made the thing 160x120, saved it as a jpeg, renamed it with the matching name as the movie, changed the extension to .thm, placed it in MP_ROOT>100MNV01 with the movie... didn't work. Help...
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ggerm · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 8

Make sure it is the exact name as the movie just with .THM instead of .MP4.

Hmmm, thinking about it I bet you have file extensions hidde. Select the file and hit command (apple key) + i and remove the .jpg from the end and select "Use .THM" when it appears.

numchuckskills · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 35

Do you have telekenetic powers? How did you know my extensions were hidden.

Thanks germosaurusrex...
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numchuckskills · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 35

Okay, I just nearly threw my PSP at the wall. Remember on the first post of this thread I said that the screen turns black and I can't do a damn thing when I play a movie? Well I thought that using ffmpeg would address that problem. I just finished transcoding a movie with it and the same thing happens? What's going on guys?
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Guest · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

Danj · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject:

There's other Mac-specific PSP software than just PSPware, have you considered trying something like iPSP or PocketMac for PSP? It'll probably be a lot easier to use one of those than to use ffmpeg.
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ggerm · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 8

With ffmpeg you drag the video file onto it, select output to psp, click encode, done.

Can't get much easier.

Danj · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject:

ggerm · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 8

It's a mac, everything is easier :)