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Title: PSP Memory Stick question
Post by: arcadecab on April 04, 2006, 10:00:19 pm

With a 1GB memory stick, how much music/movies can fit on the stick?  When you transfer/convert music and movies to the memory stick, how much can it hold?  Usually a ripped movie is 4.5 GB, so I am assuming that is reduced somehow when it is converted to a format that is used by the PSP.  Anyone?

Title: Re: PSP Memory Stick question
Post by: Goz on April 05, 2006, 02:54:34 am

A typical movie encoded for PSP with decent quality is about 400MB. MP3's you'll have to do the math snce they vary in size typically between 3MB and 8MB each.

Hope it helps,

-Goz

Title: Re: PSP Memory Stick question
Post by: pmc on April 05, 2006, 01:33:57 pm

Apple says that the 1gig iPod shuffle holds 240 songs, so that's probably a decent basic guide for MP3 capacity.

You can crunch the data smaller (with a trade-off in quality) to get more on there. My MP3s are all LAME encoded VBRs, but if I want to smoosh alot on a stick, I'll make 64k CBRs instead. The quality of your headphones and preference for sound quality may help guide you there too.

I use PSP Video 9 (http://www.pspvideo9.com/) to rip from DVD to the PSP format. It lets you tune the aspect ratio, frame rate, audio quality, and resolution to get whatever trade-off in size and quality that you'd like. I usually rip episodic content (TV shows) rather than whole movies so I never really paid attention to file sizes. You should probably do some experimenting to find out what's best for you.

The important thing is that you can get lots of NES/SNES/Genesis ROMs onto a 1gig stick!  ;D

-pmc

Title: Re: PSP Memory Stick question
Post by: orntar on April 05, 2006, 02:18:40 pm

i just did constantine at AVC 368x204 348k video, 96k audio and it came out to ~425MB

looks good and sounds good.