That's what I've been waiting for the whole morning :-)
Can someone put up a download somewhere?
I don't have WiFi at the moment.

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Has anyone information about what the "You can now play content saved in "Music," "Picture" and "Video" folders on a Memory Stick." is supposed to mean?
And what RSS-Video-feeds are supported? If they only support one format (like .MP4, which is likely), Sony has done, again, an absolutely miserable job. If other streams are supported as well, it's likely that you can play other files besides .MP4-video from the memory stick. It'd rock to play .avi/divx files.

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Is anyone having problems with the Internet Browser right after updating? When I try to open it it freezes and I have to reset the PSP. Please let me know if this is a reocurring problem.

-Thanks

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Just updated. My RSS music feeds now contain no items as does the flickr feed I added. Anyone else seeing this?

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If playing content in video folders means not having to rename them with that M4V#####.MP4 naming convention, I will be a happy, happy man... Although I think I'll hold off upgrading till I hear if theres more problem reports.

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#2 >

I tried to open an .avi/divx podcast feed after updating, and the rss tool skipped though all of the available podcasts and then labeled them all as "Corrupted Data." So, I'm assuming that all of the standard PSP video restrictions apply still.

#3&4 >

I haven't experienced any similar problems since my own update. As far as the browser freezing, it did happen to me after a different update, and restoring the default settings in the System Settings resolved the issue for me.

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Wow thats awesome....i can actually have a REGULAR VIDEO FILE?!?!?! SWEET! i hated doing all that reformating bullshit...too bad my PSP got water damage after Ver 2.6 came out.....anybody wanna buy a water damaged PSP that still turns on with a couple games including MLB 06 the show and grand theft auto liberty city stories and a 1 gig memory stick??? all for 150 bucks??? my email is wizkid243@hotmail.com ....yes i know hotmail sucks.

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where can you download RSS video and do you still have to put the videos in the mp root?

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Hey Derek, thanks for the report. I FUCKING KNEW IT, that Sony is still incompetent, ignorant and a fucking dork. Jesus. That's so ridiculous... they release new features that no one ever could use, even if he wanted to, because it's so incompatible to everything else. Sony is more incompatible to the rest of the world than Micrsoft. And what it makes even WORSE is that they're not even thinking of providing original, first-party content for their features. They don't have audio podcasts, they will not have video podcasts and if they will, it'll cost you money. The kind of money you don't want to spend unless you're growing it in your garden.
There's not even a great internet-site accessible with your PSP for germans. The site they provide updates on a yearly basis and has virtually no usable content.
They finally piss me off to no extent.
I would cry from happiness if I FINALLY was able to stream my anime collection from my PC to my PSP. I would be so happy! Sony is absurd. Grrr

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Wow so you can play regular .mpeg, .wmv files now?!

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Daniel-kun,

I totally share your frustrations at asome of Sony's decisions- especially in regard to various limitations of the PSP. I'm not a big fan of havign to convert my anime episodes to .mp4 to play them, but it doesn't take too long. We should totally make a website that had RSS feeds of anime fansubs for the PSP. That would be hot shit!

Has anyone had any luck with the new /video folder thing? I created a video folder on my memory stick and threw some .mp4 files in there, but the PSP doesn't recognize them.

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By the way, if anyone hasn't had the chance to get the Soccer demo yet, here's a link:

http://rapidshare.de/files/27199595/UCES00206.zip.html

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There's a second demo to be found for 2.80 in Japanese here:
http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/title/tama-run/dl/trial_dl.html

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All you boneheads whining about Sony adding new features, that's amusing. Even more amusing is the fact that you people actually purchased a PSP thinking that Sony would give it PC like functionality!

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Sometimes I think they use these "new features" as an excuse just to get their next futile attempt at stopping homebrewers out there.

The PSP isn't really a device I'd care to use for all of this. It's too much of a hassle. Better video support is nice, but it's not that important.

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"The PSP isn't really a device I'd care to use for all of this."

Let's be honest, SN - you could drop the 'for all of this' part of that sentence. Any and every PSP newbyte is fodder for your PSP bashing.

This seems to me like a viable update from 2.7 that actually offers some new features - not just a thinly disguised homebrew killer. I don't homebrew much these days, anyway (I can emu on my PPC-6700).

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"Haha" dude, think about it. The PSP *could* have awesome functionality! It could be like a thousand times more powerful. The only thing that's lacking is software. And Sony can't get Software right. They've proven it DOZENS of times that their software development branches are plain stupid. The solution to this issue would be to let the community provide the software. But uh, that bad-ass Sony fella up there thinks that's a no-no and prevents this, with all means. And actually with good means. If they would put HALF the effort they put in DRM and making things work awkward into making good, reliable, compatible and feature-rich software, they could have satisfied many customers by now.

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Make (stuff):
http://makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/index.xml

Mediarights (Media with a message):
http://www.mediarights.org/bm/rss.php?i=1

Telemusicvision (90% amazing music and music videos - 10% not so good ;):
http://www.telemusicvision.com/videos/rss.php?i=1

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Some of the comments here are shocking;

daniel-kun #2:
Playing standard divx files; if you have a homebrew-compatable firmware, you can use PSPlayerMT.
Sony will never make avi files official: too much expectation (you would have to resize 80% of them anyways)

daniel-kun #10:
I stream from the pc to the psp constantly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2T6df7Lxn4


Generally: If you have a 1.5 psp - you can use PMPMOD AVC to play converted files: the quality is amazing; much more so than video podcasts or mp4 files, and it doubles the battery life.


Now, to the real reason I'm posting; Great video podcasts:

Frederator (Cartoons):
http://www.channelfrederator.com/rss

(the three I already posted)

There are tonnes of others; refer to the channel guide (not all of them are compatable, but most are):
https://channelguide.participatoryculture.org/

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