Videos on PSP?

"Mattinglyfan" <kyler.jackson.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> bcr07548.RemoveThis@creighton.edu wrote:
> > I bought a PSP a few days ago but it doesn't seem to work quite like I
> > was hoping. I'm thinking about returning it but maybe someone can help
> > me first. For a while, I was trying to put MP4 vidoes on it but no
> > matter where I put them, they weren't showing up in the videos menu. I
> > looked online a bit and it seemed like upgrading was the solution so I
> > upgraded the firmware from 1.5 to 2.81. I reformatted the memory card
> > and then there was an extra "VIDEO" folder so I put the videos in
> > there. Now they show up but the thumbnails say "unsupported data."
> > The videos are all MP4's from Google Video. I've heard that support
> > for things other than video games and UMD movies is a little unreliable
> > from version to version. Does anyone have a solution for this?
> >
> > -Brandon
>
> Its not the Video folder itself. I can't remember the exact name but
> it involves a lot of numbers. Download pspvideo9 and it will create
> the folder within the video folder automatically.


Yeah, I think Sony wants to sell their PC to PSP video kit, so there was a
somewhat odd naming scheme used for video to show up. It's hard to do it
manually, you need that program (or something similar, like that free one)
to do it.
 >> Stay informed about: Videos on PSP? 

Wow, this topic and the responses are flabbergasting! The bigger
question is almost "How can you NOT know how to put videos on a PSP?".
Putting videos on the memory stick is so simple that it is the primary
cause of the demise of UMD movies. Why buy a UMD movie when you can rip
a DVD and put it on the PSP? There must be at least a thousand
tutorials on how to do every aspect of it. If anything, Sony is
probably regretting making it so easy, easier than any other handheld
out there.

The first thing is the video needs to be in a specific directory. It is
\MP_ROOT\100MNV01 and they have to be in MP4 format with an
accompanying info file. There were at least half a dozen *free*
encoders out way before the commercial encoder packages from Sony. Read
this for a start and just look for PSP movie tutorials. Really, there
are literally hundreds to thousands of them:

http://gear.ign.com/articles/598/598803p3.html

Jeremy Reaban wrote:
> "Mattinglyfan" <kyler.jackson.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1158082409.346832.125490@e63g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
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> > bcr07548.TakeThisOut@creighton.edu wrote:
> > > I bought a PSP a few days ago but it doesn't seem to work quite like I
> > > was hoping. I'm thinking about returning it but maybe someone can help
> > > me first. For a while, I was trying to put MP4 vidoes on it but no
> > > matter where I put them, they weren't showing up in the videos menu. I
> > > looked online a bit and it seemed like upgrading was the solution so I
> > > upgraded the firmware from 1.5 to 2.81. I reformatted the memory card
> > > and then there was an extra "VIDEO" folder so I put the videos in
> > > there. Now they show up but the thumbnails say "unsupported data."
> > > The videos are all MP4's from Google Video. I've heard that support
> > > for things other than video games and UMD movies is a little unreliable
> > > from version to version. Does anyone have a solution for this?
> > >
> > > -Brandon
> >
> > Its not the Video folder itself. I can't remember the exact name but
> > it involves a lot of numbers. Download pspvideo9 and it will create
> > the folder within the video folder automatically.
>
>
> Yeah, I think Sony wants to sell their PC to PSP video kit, so there was a
> somewhat odd naming scheme used for video to show up. It's hard to do it
> manually, you need that program (or something similar, like that free one)
> to do it.
 >> Stay informed about: Videos on PSP? 

Foul 'ol Ron wrote:
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> For a start, since the 2.80 update all the old conversion software doesn't
> work for it anymore, (as Sony have done away with their strange labelling
> system.)
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I can't figure out why people keep saying this; all the videos I
converted before 2.8 with FFMPEGX still work in 2.8; I haven't checked
any of the early offical downloads from Sony since 2.8. I'm wondering if
most people converted videos with a program that didn't quite match the
real specs of the system.
 >> Stay informed about: Videos on PSP? 

"Ted" <nospamforted DeleteThis @nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Foul 'ol Ron wrote:
> snip
>> For a start, since the 2.80 update all the old conversion software
>> doesn't
>> work for it anymore, (as Sony have done away with their strange labelling
>> system.)
> snip
>
> I can't figure out why people keep saying this; all the videos I
> converted before 2.8 with FFMPEGX still work in 2.8; I haven't checked
> any of the early offical downloads from Sony since 2.8. I'm wondering if
> most people converted videos with a program that didn't quite match the
> real specs of the system.

I was originally using PSP Video 9, maybe that has something to do with it.
It's not like I'm complaining now anyway.
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