PS2 Media player TEST REPORT!

[zlgin]

Here's my massive report of a test I did myself on getting divx files to work on PS2 Reality Media player. Click on the link below to download the txt version. Hope it helps any of you. Feel free tell me any errors I have made and your successes on getting the player to work.



------------------------------------PS2 Media player TeSt REPORT------------------------------------

---TEST NOTES---

#Test files 1-9 were created from a PAL 720x576 dvd video clip .vob file 1m23s long.

#Programs used for conversion (in order) are:
1. DVD2AVI 1.76 (To extract audio and to provide a video frameserver from the .vob file),
2. TMPGEnc 2.58.44.152 (To convert seperate videos and mp3 tracks),
3. VirtualDub 1.4.13.0 (To mux the video and audio into an avi file)

#cdgenPS2 2.0 were used to create the cd .bin file. PS2 Reality Player Beta 1 was used.

#All tests were conducted on a US v4 PS2 with Origachip installed using DVD Region X as the boot disc. Files were burnt on a standard CD-R using Nero. All files were tested on computer before being burnt.




---TEST RESULTS---

1. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 352x240 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 455kBit/s
SOUNDTRACKS TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
MP3, 224 kBit/s, 44.1kHz, Stereo
MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
MP3, 320 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVERAGE AVI SIZE - 7,892kb
TOTAL NUMBER OF AVI - 4
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

2. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 640x480 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 455kBit/s
SOUNDTRACKS TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
MP3, 224 kBit/s, 44.1kHz, Stereo
MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
MP3, 320 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVERAGE AVI SIZE - 8091kb
TOTAL NUMBER OF AVI - 4
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

3. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 720x576 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 455kBit/s
SOUNDTRACKS TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
MP3, 224 kBit/s, 44.1kHz, Stereo
MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
MP3, 320 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVERAGE AVI SIZE - 7,892kb
TOTAL NUMBER OF AVI - 4
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Severe scattered pixelation problem at the top or bottom or both. Sound ok


4. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 640x480 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 680kBit/s
SOUNDTRACKS TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
MP3, 224 kBit/s, 44.1kHz, Stereo
MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
MP3, 320 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVERAGE AVI SIZE - 10,754.5kb
TOTAL NUMBER OF AVI - 4
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

5. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 352x240 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 910kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVI SIZE - 11,666kb
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

6. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 640x480 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 910kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVI SIZE - 12,214kb
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

7. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 720x576 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 910kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVI SIZE - 12,270kb
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Severe scattered pixelation problem at the top or bottom or both. Sound ok


8. VIDEO USEDS - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion/Fast Motion, 352x240/640x480/720x576 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rates 455/680/910kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - none
TOTAL NUMBER OF AVI - 8
RESULT - Crashes at "loading buffer" screen.

9. VIDEO USED - DIVXPRO5.02, 352 x 240 25fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 910kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVI SIZE - 6,192kb
RESULT - Sometimes video freezes at "loading buffer" screen with the audio playing perfectly. Othertimes first frame of video is shown then freezes with no audio.




10. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Fast Motion, 240x176 29.97fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 68kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 64 kBit/s Constant Bit Rate, 24kHz, Stereo
AVI SIZE - 56,100kb
Length - 57m40s
RESULT - Freezes at "Playing movie screen".
NOTE - This originally was a very long, low bitrate Windows Media Audio/Video (ASF) file, that was converted into a vcd .dat stream using Nero. Afterwards, the vcd stream was converted into divx.

11. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 640x480 29.97fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 966kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 48 kBit/s Constant Bit Rate
AVI SIZE - 104,000kb
Length - 14m17s
RESULT - Mostly plays smoothly. Everynow and then (Around every 15 seconds) the video freezes then continues. Sound is okay.

12. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 352x240 14.999fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 420kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 56 kBit/s
AVI SIZE - 65,400kb
Length - 19m5s
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

13. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 320x240 30fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 165kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 56 kBit/s Constant Bit Rate
AVI SIZE - 47,900kb
Length - 29m19s
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

14. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Fast Motion, 352x240 29.97fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 318kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - Divx WMA, 64 kBit/s
AVI SIZE - 59,000kb
Length - 21m14s
RESULT - Played first few frames then crash. Horrible distorted sound in those few frames.

15. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 320x240 14.99fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 312kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 48 kBit/s Constant Bit Rate
AVI SIZE - 52,500kb
Length - 20m12s
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

16. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Fast Motion, 352x240 29.97fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 308kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 112 kBit/s Constant Bit Rate
AVI SIZE - 64,500kb
Length - 21m08s
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

17. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 352x237 29.97fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 524kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 64 kBit/s Constant Bit Rate
AVI SIZE - 87,700kb
Length - 20m37s
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

18. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 320x240 30fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate 158kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 56 kBit/s Constant Bit Rate
AVI SIZE - 47,900kb
Length - 28m40s
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

19. VIDEO USED - DIVXPRO5.02, Various resolutions 24bit, Extremely Low Average Video Bit Rates
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, Extremely Low kBit/s
NUMBER OF AVIS - About 10
RESULT - Some videos played perfectly (The really small ones, around 500kb in size). Other ones (Bigger ones, around 2,500kb - 70,000kb) refused to play, "crashed at loading buffer" screen.




---CONCLUSION---
1. 320x240, 352x237, 352x240, 640x480 at 14-30fps resolutions of video work. 720x576 also work but there are problems with the top and the bottom of the video.

2. Basically, all MP3 soundtrack files (including 48kHz, 320kBit/s, Constant Bit Rate) work. PCM and WMA soundtracks DEFINATELY DON'T WORK! I'm not sure if variable bit rate MP3s, WAV and other sound track files work.

3. Video bit rates from 455-910 kBit/s work. Not sure about higher bitrates.

4. Divx MPEG 4 v3 Low/High motion is the best CODECS to encode with. It has a very high success rate in the PS2 Reality Media Player. Unfortunately Divx MPEG 4 v3 Low/High motion CODECS started as a hacking project on Microsofts patented Windows Media Audio Video files (ASF) and is thus sort of an illegal project. On the other hand, Divx Pro 5.02 CODEC does work but ONLY if the files are extremely small (Around 500kb in size) and contain very low bitrates. Divx Pro 5.02 is completely legal as the project was started from scratch. Anyway, I wouldnt recommend you use Divx Pro 5.02 CODEC to encode videos, use Divx MPEG 4 v3 Low/High motion instead.

5. There is definately a relationship between the resolution/fps/videobitrate/mp3/avilength/avisize of the video and the success it will have in working on Ps2 Reality Media Player. Experiment to find the best settings for the files.

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[Bgnome]

note: a new version is due out very soon..

[kizmet]

Great Test Report!

[Snok]

Originally posted by Bgnome
note: a new version is due out very soon..

Do you know when?

[NX3]

Good work on report but something puzzles me....

"Divx Pro 5.02 CODEC does work but ONLY if the files are extremely small (Around 500kb in size) and contain very low bitrates."

I'm using Divx 5.02 and have files ranging from 600mb to 1.4 gb with bit rates for just the video of 1000kb. The audio I'm using VBR mp3 and everything is working / playing fine. I'm using DVDR to fit movies thats size, still getting 3 or 4 on a disc.

Divx 5.02 if using VirtualDub and you set the audio settings wrong will only play back about 5 secs of video but will generate a full movie size file. This is due to the fact VDub doesn't like or work with VBR mp3s. I recommend you get NanoDub (a VDub hack) which supports VBR mp3s and it all works fine on PS2 then.

Or you use VDub still but convert the audio to Wav and then CBR MP3. However the suggestion about is the better option.

[oliveshagger]

Does this player play mpgs!?!?!?, I know it doesn't do vcd but whatabout raw mpg?!?!?

[hikaru_shindou]

Id like to add my 2 cents worth in this thread, as i am a serious encoder myself.

The best resolutions ive used (flawlessly) are 352x240 and 512x384, with 950kbps bitrate.

i try to keep it as close to vcd/svcd/dvd format as possible so i dont go too far from it. when i play back files that are 640x480 it really chops up and is unwatchable. I dont know maybe its that anime fansubs are encoded higher than 1000kbps, that may be the problem. But so far everything 640x480 have not worked well.

Also a problem with divx and downcoding (to fit cd, or to fit the requirements) is little green wavy lines. They are always apparent if you are doing divx to divx, or just straight divx. If its a conversion from another source (vcd > divx, svcd > divx, dvd > divx) it works fine and looks great.

[oliveshagger]

BTW does this app kill the lens?!?!, As i'm playing Final Detination 2 and i can hear the laser consistantly spinning?!?!

[zlgin]

Here is an update with important findings. Below is a revised .txt report.


------MORE TEST FILES AND RESULTS------
20. VIDEO USED - DIVXPRO5.02, 512 x 384 25fps 24bit, Variable 1-Pass Video Bit Rate

900kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVI SIZE - 8,528kb
Length - 1m30s
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

21. VIDEO USED - DIVXPRO5.02, 512 x 384 25fps 24bit, Variable 1-Pass Video Bit Rate

900kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
AVI SIZE - 14,106kb
Length - 1m30s
RESULT - Smooth, no skipping or freezes. Video quality and sound okay.

22. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 640x496-672x528 30fps 24bit, Average Video Bit

Rate 640kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
Length - 1m30s
NUMBER OF AVIS - 3
RESULT - Video and sound quality okay. Video has slight Jerkyness. As the resolution

increases, playback become more jerky. Occasional stops in audio and video.

23. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 688x544 30fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate

640kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
Length - 1m30s
RESULT - Video has a slight, constant graphical glitch at bottom right hand corner,

sound quality okay. Video has slight Jerkyness. Occasional stops in audio and

video.

23. VIDEO USED - DIVXMPG4 V3 Low Motion, 704x560 30fps 24bit, Average Video Bit Rate

640kBit/s
SOUNDTRACK TESTED - MP3, 224 kBit/s, 48kHz, Stereo
Length - 1m30s
RESULT - Severe graphical glitches at top and bottom of video, sound quality okay.

Video has slight Jerkyness. Occasional stops in audio and video.



------ADDITIONAL CONCLUSION------
1#
Divx MPEG 4 v3 Low/High motion and YES Divx Pro 5.02 CODECS WORK! I now know why test files

8, 9, 10, 19 don't work properly. It is because I used TMPEG to encode and interlace the avi

files. I can confirm that ps2 media player doesn't like divx files avi interlaced with TMPEG.

Thus, dont use TMPEG to avi interlace the seperate divx video and mp3 streams. Use Virtual

Dub instead.

2#
320x240, 352x237, 352x240, 512x384 at 14-30fps resolutions of video work. 640x480 (307200

pixels) is the boundary resolution between smooth and jerky video. 688X544, 720x576, 704X560

also work but video play back is slightly jerky and there are problems with the top and

bottom of the video.Not sure if larger avi at those resolutions will work 100%. 512x384

(196608 pixels) and less is the best resolution to encode at.

[zlgin]

------------------Divx 5.0 Test Update----------------------------------

Resolution 512x384 at 1300-1500-1700-2000 kbps-
Video and Sound Okay

Resolutions at 528x400,544x416,560x432,576x448,592x464 at 900kbps-
Video and Sound Okay

Resolutions at 608x480,624x496 at 900kbps-
Very Jerky video, sound stops with video.