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Kool_Aid_Man · Mar 10, 2005, 11:39 AM

How would you convert .mov files into .3gp? I have quicktime pro and I tried doing it in that but its horrible quality and I tried doing it in iPSP but right at the end there is an error and when I open up the 3gp file it made, the audio is not synced to the video. Anyone know a good way to make 3gp files?

Mithras · Mar 10, 2005, 12:35 PM

I think you can click 'Options' and set the bitrate and such when you're exporting in QTPro?

Kool_Aid_Man · Mar 10, 2005, 04:58 PM

Yeah I just found that but even with the highest quality stuff in quicktime, it's horrible quality. Plus it's taking forever for 1 episode to go 3gp so imagine 50 (all the family guy episodes for when I get my psp). Also it's taking long enough as it is... Hmm. It's 64 megs as .3gp opposed to 300 megs in .mov. But its worse quality. Do you think it will matter on the PSP's screen when it's scaled down? It looks ok on the monitor when I scale it to about the size it'll be on the PSP. Do you think it will be worse on the PSP's screen?

Jacke · Mar 10, 2005, 05:36 PM

What format is the .mov video/audio in? You could first export to MPEG-4 (which offers a bit higher quality, you can try the 3ivx codec as it's better than Apple's), then passthrough to 3gp.

If you're encoding for PSP, you migh also be interested in this ffmpegX guide.

Kool_Aid_Man · Mar 10, 2005, 06:07 PM

I used this http://appleguru.home.comcast.net/dvdrip.html
I did that and then I vonverted the .mov files into .3gp. Seeing that guide about ffmpegx, I'm getting pretty pissed. That is way faster than the way it sez in the guide I put a link to and i've been doing this almost all day and only halfway done.

Kool_Aid_Man · Mar 10, 2005, 07:34 PM

I tried using ffmpegX to take the .vob files directly out and into .mp4 files but its stuck on 262%.

Mithras · Mar 11, 2005, 07:00 AM

I can say that .3gp files generally do have horrible quality, that's why they're so small. My Nokia 6500 phone records .3gp movies, and they seem pretty bad in Quicktime. But as you suggest, on the small, dense screen of the phone, they're not sobad.

So maybe do one episode, or part of one episode, and see how it looks on the PSP first. (OT: How's the PSP?

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Kool_Aid_Man · Mar 11, 2005, 02:02 PM

I don't have it yet. I'm making videos for it tho so when I get it I can just put them on. I figured out that I can also do mp4 videos on the PSP and that takes like 30 seconds and way better quality. It's like 200 megs an episode on mp4 so I might just mess up the quality too make the size smaller. Anyone know what sub is in 0SEx? I think that may be bringing up the size. It says there are 4 of them but some are french and spanish and stuff.