File Format Trends... Specfically PSP

markcdev · Post by **markcdev** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:26 pm

Just wondering, now that the Sony PSP is out, how many AMV creators are planning to make your creations available in this format too. Or will you stick with your current file formats. Do you think you would gain a bigger audience for your AMV's if you did offer them for PSP also?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:52 pm

markcdev wrote:Just wondering, now that the Sony PSP is out, how many AMV creators are planning to make your creations available in this format too. Or will you stick with your current file formats. Do you think you would gain a bigger audience for your AMV's if you did offer them for PSP also?

What's the point, besides geek points?

In theory this is trivial for a growing number of videos (as their video streams are encoded using some variant of the MPEG-4 video coding standard), but it seems more of a technological curiosity than anything else...

Zaphod_Beeblebrox · Post by **Zaphod_Beeblebrox** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:55 pm

i think just about the biggest audience you're going to get is here, so encoding an AMV for anywhere else is just about pointless unless you're going to send it to a con, anything alse is mostly pointless extra effort as far as i can tell.

Brsrk · Post by **Brsrk** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:26 pm

Almost anything encoded smaller than 352x240 is not worth it, IMO. Anything smaller is just a waste of time for both the creator and for the viewer because trying to get stuff to look good at that size takes too much effort.

Org Profile · Post by **GloryQuestor** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:38 pm

Brsrk wrote:Almost anything encoded smaller than 352x240 is not worth it, IMO. Anything smaller is just a waste of time for both the creator and for the viewer because trying to get stuff to look good at that size takes too much effort.

Not if you squeeze it down to 320x240, then resize it proportionately to 480x480 / 640x480 / 720x480.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:44 pm

GloryQuestor wrote:
Brsrk wrote:Almost anything encoded smaller than 352x240 is not worth it, IMO. Anything smaller is just a waste of time for both the creator and for the viewer because trying to get stuff to look good at that size takes too much effort.
Not if you squeeze it down to 320x240, then resize it proportionately to 480x480 / 640x480 / 720x480.

There's no point in doing all that resizing, unless you're intentionally trying to make your video look like crap. Crop once, resize once.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:00 pm

I read <a href="http://www20.tomshardware.com/mobile/20 ... s">here</a> that the PSP's resolution is 480x272... why would you need to resize to smaller than 352x240?

But yeah, I really don't see a point in releasing videos in PSP-compatible format, as almost all the people who get PSP's will already have PC's (and by that I mean PC as in "personal computer", in the most literal sense of the phrase, including Apples and Solarises, not PC as in specifically "IBM-compatible"), so why bother?
If they're that desperate to see what the videos look like on the PSP, they can always convert them themselves.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:51 pm

Yes indeed. I say leave the conversion business to the PSPers.

That said, I'm still yet to get a straight answer from anyone as to how the said PSP fares as an AMV player

Kaji01 · Post by **Kaji01** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:02 pm

I'm a DSer anyway, but for curiousity's sake, what format does the PSP use?

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:08 pm

Kaji01 wrote:I'm a DSer anyway, but for curiousity's sake, what format does the PSP use?

MPEG-4, as stated in above posts.

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File Format Trends... Specfically PSP

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