How do I convert and compress GBA video?

Jennifer2k89 · December 05, 2006, 12:53:09 AM

Hi everyone

Erm, A noob here and just got my supercard microsd a few days ago so not very sure about what I'm doing.
Anyways, I downloaded a gba. spongebob squarepant episode earlier and realize that it's only 32 MB total for 4 EPISODE. I'm just wondering if there's a program out that that let me do the same thing?
I tried Meteos and GBA media converter, however... it doesn't seem to be working, perhaps I did something incorrect. If it isn't too much of a hassle, can someone please help me out? Is there a program to convert avi and such to .gba? And is there a program to compress the gba so that it's only about 32MB for 4 episode?

Hope I'm not asking too much. And thanks for taking your time out to read this thread. :lol:

onekelly · December 05, 2006, 01:28:06 AM

Jennifer2k89, first off, welcom to scdev!

To help out with your avi to ds issue, well the ds plays files called .dpg and can be watch with a program called moonshell. and to go from avi to dpg you can use a couple programs, I prefer batchdpg.

Take a look at this tutorial to help you out and get you on the right track, MoonShell Tutorial: install, customize, and more (ver. 1.5)

Jennifer2k89 · December 05, 2006, 02:05:51 AM

Thanks for the welcome onekelly.

I do have Moonshell and do know how to convert video to .dpg however, the size is quite big. Around 32mb(.dpg) for a 132mb(avi) video after conversion. I'm trying to convert it to .gba because it seem like the size will be smaller. Since I notice that 4 episode is only 32mb when its in gba. format. Correct me if I'm wrong but you can't compress .dpg?

onekelly · December 05, 2006, 02:31:10 AM

i guess you could go lesser quality. I would have to play a little with it to find out if possible, cause generally I am looking for average quality to file size ratio. I do not know if you can or how toconvert to .gba type format.

TBO when dealing with filesize, I just took my family to disneyworld and with a 6+ hour flight I bought an extra 1g SD (adata $15, newegg) for my daughter and a 512microSD (adata $15 newegg) for myself to help out with the filesize and wanting more videos or cartoons to take along.

onekelly · December 05, 2006, 02:44:49 AM

The site gbatemp.net (you will have to join, but has alot of info) has a thread for this topic called Movies on gba. There are 140 post on this thread, good luck and let us know what you find!