DVD > ASF for Play-Yan

[MadBob]

I have imported a Nintendo Play-Yan (http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/playan/index.html) from Japan for my GBA and want to rip straight from DVD to ASF format, tried lots of stuff incl. 1 Click DVD Ripper which supposedly do the job but fail miserably.

I can Rip the DVD first to AVI/MPG and then user the Panasonic derived (MediaStage)Nintendo software to compress to the correct output, this however takes way too long and I want to be able to Rip / Encode in one easy step.

Anyone got any good suggestions?

This is the output format I am after:

Video Specifications:
File Format: ASF (SD-VIDEO Standard)
Video Format: MPEG-4 Video
Screen Resolution: 240x176 (QVGA)
Bit Rate: 480Kbs / 352Kbs / 224Kbs
Frame Rate: 30fps / 15fps
Sound Format: Bit rate - 32kbps; Sampling rate - 8kHz

With ideally the option to select either:
High Quality - 240x176 480Kbs 30fps
Medium Quality - 240x176 352Kbs 30fps
Low Quality - 240x176 224Kbs 15fps

I have also found some other Japanese software (3GP Converter) that encodes from AVI/MPG etc. to ASF but is not as good quality as the MediaStage by Panasonic.

I just cannot yet find anything for DVD > ASF

[radius]

The sound is G726
I'm searching for an encoder for it too (not specialy from dvd) as ffmpeg doesn't produce perfectly working sd videos for now

[Armitage]

There's a little guide here for doing the conversion using 3gp, which uses a modified version of FFMpeg released by Mobilehackerz:

http://forum.lik-sang.com/showthread.php?t=2339

[Donnie]

Problem is when encoding with the 3GP encoder from that link the videos are out of sync. Has anyone found a way to make Play-Yan compatible movies, without the Media-Stage software, that actually play in sync?

I got my Play-Yan almost 2 months ago without Media-Stage. Because I had seen the 3GP encoder and already used it to make some videos. But what I didn't notice about those videos is that the sound would almost always go out of sync within a few minutes (not just on the Play-Yan but when playing on my PC as well).

If I use any other sound codec (MP3 ect) with the 3GP encoder the sound is fine. But with G726 it just won't play in sync with the video, and that's the only audio the Play-Yan supports while playing video.

Can anyone help me? Maybe someone has a better encoder, or can fix 3GP? Or maybe a link to a download of the Nintendo version of Media-Stage?

[Armitage]

Well... You might try to build the latest CVS of ffmpeg, it has all the same features that mobilehackerz added to their build.. not really sure if that'll help you or not..

As for media-stage, it would be a violation of forum rules to provide a link to it.

[Donnie]

As for media-stage, it would be a violation of forum rules to provide a link to it.

In that case does anyone know where I can buy the software?