When you connect a 2.80 PSP, you can create a folder in the root directory called "VIDEO":
Simply dump the file into that folder, and voila! You're done:
So, essentially, any video that's been encoded for a video iPod can now work on a PSP. Pretty sweet, right? But don't throw away your MP_ROOT folder quite yet... It appears that PSP-formatted videos will not work in the new VIDEO folder. You must still put those in the usual MP_ROOT folders. Lame! But, I'm pretty sure that's a small glitch that'll be fixed in a future firmware revision.
[Update 1: Added clarification.]
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7-27-2006 @ 12:26PM
Gonzo said...
FINALLY
This was causing so many problems with the conversion software I was using. Hopefully this will solve it.
For a while it was easier to jack video into my gba-mp. Fine call me a blasphemer but I can't sit on the subway comfortably with either a psp or a ds. Well... there's probably no way to be "comfortable" on the subway.
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7-27-2006 @ 12:29PM
Derek said...
Thanks for the quick tutorial. I was being a retard and put the video folder in the wrong place at first.
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7-27-2006 @ 12:38PM
Doc P said...
these two sentences are inconsistent;
"Any good ol' fashioned MP4 video will do"
and
"PSP-formatted videos will not work in the new VIDEO folder"
I belive that the PSP formatted videos are .mp4 as well, so what is the deal
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7-27-2006 @ 12:45PM
Andrew Yoon said...
You can't place videos that you already converted specifically for the PSP into that new VIDEO folder. It's very strange. The naming scheme seems to make it appear as corrupt.
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7-27-2006 @ 12:48PM
daniel-kun said...
Thanks for the tutorial.
This is so stupid. I bet they had to pay the programmers double their wage to code something as stupid as this.
I mean, yeah, it's nice to have other mp4 files work on the PSP besides the hardcore-"standardized" PSP-MP4s (which I couldn't create on linux because you needed a hardcore-special ffmpeg version that I could not create). But putting other stupid-ass restrictions on it is soooo lame. Sony, you are I-D-I-O-T-S! Big time! I'm really done with you. I hope Untold Legends 2 will make me happy, which I ordered yesterday.
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7-27-2006 @ 9:52PM
Teace said...
I don't know what I'm doing wrong but my .mp4 files that work on my iPod aren't working on the PSP. I can see the files but I get a "This video cannot be played" message. Help!
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7-27-2006 @ 11:13PM
jdub said...
RE: #6 comments.
I have the same problems. I even reformated my memory stick to have the PSP create the new folders (VIDEO, MUSIC, PHOTO, etc.) I have a Powerbook and my mp4 files show the "This video cannot be displayed" message. Any other Mac user had success? should the extention be uppercase (i.e. MP4)?
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7-27-2006 @ 11:25PM
Andrew Yoon said...
I converted a personal film through Quicktime Pro, dumped it as an .m4v file and it played perfectly fine. Make sure that it's at the very least iPod compatible, around 320x240 resolution. ALSO: make sure that these videos aren't DRM protected. If these are shows that you bought off of iTunes, they're not going to work on anything but an iPod.
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7-28-2006 @ 10:51AM
Teace said...
The file that I added was one created by Handbrake. It's mp4 just like some podcasts I have on the PSP that do work, but for whatever reason I get the error message. And yes, it is formatted for the iPod (320x240). With the file extensions being exactly the same I'm really curious as to why the movie won't play.
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