MCEBuddy

Is PSP wide the best possible quality for PSP. I really don't mind longer processing time but I would like to get the best possible picture.

darekd:

Is PSP wide the best possible quality for PSP. I really don't mind longer processing time but I would like to get the best possible picture.

PSP Wide will produce the most visible video, so is generally best.  Both have the same quality. 

Can the profile for PSP be changed to improve the output quality?  

I was wondering the same thing actually. What i found is that the PSP actually supports full resolution (480x272) h.264 encoded video as of PSP firmware 3.30. Firmware before that did  **NOT** support the higher res videos natively. The default profiles in mencodr/MCEBuddy are for spec'd for the older firmware PSP. More info here: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/28/psp-firmware-hits-3-30-with-bigger-vids-and-better-psone/

So that means if you install the newer firmware on your PSP, you can play higher resolution and better looking video on the PSP. You need to add the following profile to your MCEBuddy "mencoder.conf" file. I built this profile by combining some of the stuff that was already present in another h.264 profile, and info from this link: http://videogeek.shacknet.nu/index.php?entry=entry070917-130603

It works pretty good so far on my firmware "oe 3.5" psp, and should work on any PSP with firmware 3.30 or later. If anyone has any recommendations on how to improve the profile, please post and let me know, i'm a noob at mencoder profiles/MCEbuddy.

[x264-PSP]
profile-desc="H.264    PSP Full Rez (FW3.30)    (480:272)"
vf=pullup,softskip,scale=480:-10,harddup,unsharp=l3x3:0.7,expand=480:272
lavdopts=threads=2
ovc=x264=yes
x264encopts=bitrate=800:global_header:partitions=all:trellis=1:vbv_maxrate=768:vbv_bufsize=2000:level_idc=30
oac=faac=yes
faacopts=br=128:raw=yes:mpeg=4:tns=yes:object=2
af=volnorm=2:lavcresample=24000
ofps=30000/1001
of=lavf=yes
lavfopts=format=mp4
#FileExtension=mp4

photomoto:

I was wondering the same thing actually. What i found is that the PSP actually supports full resolution (480x272) h.264 encoded video as of PSP firmware 3.30. Firmware before that did  **NOT** support the higher res videos natively. The default profiles in mencodr/MCEBuddy are for spec'd for the older firmware PSP. More info here: http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/28/psp-firmware-hits-3-30-with-bigger-vids-and-better-psone/

So that means if you install the newer firmware on your PSP, you can play higher resolution and better looking video on the PSP. You need to add the following profile to your MCEBuddy "mencoder.conf" file. I built this profile by combining some of the stuff that was already present in another h.264 profile, and info from this link: http://videogeek.shacknet.nu/index.php?entry=entry070917-130603

It works pretty good so far on my firmware "oe 3.5" psp, and should work on any PSP with firmware 3.30 or later. If anyone has any recommendations on how to improve the profile, please post and let me know, i'm a noob at mencoder profiles/MCEbuddy.

[x264-PSP]
profile-desc="H.264    PSP Full Rez (FW3.30)    (480:272)"
vf=pullup,softskip,scale=480:-10,harddup,unsharp=l3x3:0.7,expand=480:272
lavdopts=threads=2
ovc=x264=yes
x264encopts=bitrate=800:global_header:partitions=all:trellis=1:vbv_maxrate=768:vbv_bufsize=2000:level_idc=30
oac=faac=yes
faacopts=br=128:raw=yes:mpeg=4:tns=yes:object=2
af=volnorm=2:lavcresample=24000
ofps=30000/1001
of=lavf=yes
lavfopts=format=mp4
#FileExtension=mp4

Looks OK to me.  I'd probably change the video filter line though plus a couple of tweaks.  Some of the stuff there seems to be for DVD rips, but should not cause any harm.  Try the following:

[PSP-HighRes]
profile-desc="Playstation Portable High Resolution (Requires PSP firmware 3.30 or later)"
vf=pullup,softskip,pp=fd,scale=480:-2,crop=480:272,hqdn3d,harddup
lavdopts=threads=2
ovc=x264=yes
x264encopts=bitrate=800:global_header:partitions=all:trellis=1:vbv_maxrate=768:vbv_bufsize=2000:level_idc=30:threads=auto
oac=faac=yes
faacopts=br=128:raw=yes:mpeg=4:tns=yes:object=2
af=volnorm=2:lavcresample=24000
ofps=30000/1001
of=lavf=yes
lavfopts=format=mp4
#FileExtension=mp4

If it works, I'll put it into the next release. 

I just tried out the profile above, and it works great for me on my PSP. I wonder if it worked for the original poster?  Thanks for adding it the next release.

 moto