PS2 My Best Settings for 16x9 Widescreen Content in Simple Media System

[tktagmedia]

I know there's little reason to do this these days, but I've been messing with Xvid encoding in SMS in an attempt to achieve the maximum best settings and this is what I've come up with:

16x9 WIDESCREEN CONTENT (applies to 29.97fps and 23.976fps content):
Video Codec: Xvid
Resolution: 960x540
Video Bitrate: Hard Drive: 1040 kbps USB: 698 kbps
(2-pass encoding HIGHLY recommended to minimize macro blocking and optimize file size)
Quantization Type: MPEG (slightly sharper picture)

Audio Codec: LAME Mpeg Layer-3
Audio Bitrate: 160 kbps CBR (anything higher results in diminishing returns due to SMS' low decoding quality)

Again: I know there's very little reason to do this in 2022, but I was bored and wanted to see how far I could push the envelope-- it's also a trip to see modern content running on the PS2 in high-ish resolution.

Here is a small sampler pack of pre-encoded videos that will run in SMS (no copyrighted material--all things publicly available online)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/nu4359j7lw6tdvw/SMS_Sample_Pack.zip

 

[Berion]

That's quite high resolution as for PS2. Does SMS works from GSM?

MP3 160kb/s CBR or VBR?

 

[tktagmedia]

That's quite high resolution as for PS2. Does SMS works from GSM?

You can technically push the resolution to 1024x920, but it causes visual garbage and performance issues, even when streaming from hard drive.

MP3 160kb/s CBR or VBR?

MP3: 160kb/s CBR (updating that now in the main post)

As for the GSM, I honestly don't know. I recall reading that the programmer was passing video decoding duties to the GSM, but I could be remembering wrong.

Here is a link to the source code: https://github.com/TheMrIron2/Simple-Media-System

 

[tktagmedia]

That's quite high resolution as for PS2. Does SMS works from GSM?

MP3 160kb/s CBR or VBR?

Sorry, I misunderstood your previous message. There is no reason to use GSM, as you can change the display output to a native 720p or 1080i in the settings.