Urban Puddle

About a month ago I wrote a post about converting Railscasts to PSP video using a simple bash script. Well, with the help of my friend Lou, it's now been converted to a Ruby script instead. The files are posted at Github and the public clone url is git://github.com/vince/mp4-to-mobile-video.git so feel free to hack at it and improve it in any way you like. For those too lazy to check out the code, there's a copy/paste version (which of course will not be updated..) below.

In particular I'm posting this to help those familiar with Ruby get started with Ruby scripting since there are some methods you may not have used before if you've only used Ruby via Rails programming.

I've been searching around the Internet trying to find an appropriate command for ffmpeg that will let me convert video for my PSP in 480x272 resolution. There's a ton of outdated info out there.. no matter what I tried I couldn't get anything beyond 320x240 or 368x204 to work. Finally, I managed to get a recipe that does the trick. The resulting railscasts are viewable on the PSP (barely) so if you've been wanting to convert video in linux to use on the PSP this script is for you.