Easied way to play AVI?

[Dunpeal1978]

I'm trying to find the easiest way to play AVI and MOV files without having to transcode them. I'm trying to use PSP Media Player 0.0.5 (unofficial skinned) ,but it only plays the sound on my AVI file and never loads the video. I want to be able to just drag and drop the files,or at least only have to perform one or two quick steps before I can view them.Does anyone know any homebrew or tutorials that can help me?

[jmendes]

video files come in a crap load of codec formats. If even WMP has trouble playing some of them, i dont think PSP MP will ever be able to handle every video file that easily. If a file doesnt play, ull probably have to transcode it.

[Dunpeal1978]

I'm fully aware of that problem. Its seems that the PSP media players out there can play it once you resize it to 480X272,or change the file into a PMP file.But are either of those methods any faster than using say for instance: PSP Video 9? I hate that program,it takes all day.I don't care about resolution I just wanna watch it on the bus.

[dejkirkby]

I use ImToo Mpeg Encoder 3 to convert all my video and audio files and it takes minutes to do.

[Gold Line]

PSP Video 9 is crap dont use it
i use PSP Movie by PQDVD

[Dunpeal1978]

Ok but those are software that you have to pay for.Are there any decent freeware applications out there,that are better than PSP Video 9?

[pt9087]

3gp Converter!

[stormie]

Well, WinAVI MP4 Converter , its probably the fastest converter, does well also, horrible at labeling files. Psp video 9 wasnt that bad. Does what it suppose to do. Id go with winavi, since it converts mostly any file^^.

[Dunpeal1978]

I used 3GP and it was pretty fast. What is the best setting so I can get the best video quality out of it.

[potatoman]

3gp is an old format for phone video, to get whatever good you can out of it, go for a high resolution or framerate over bitrate. bitrate in 3gp offer almost no (visible) quality difference.