Although PSP has an internet browser with Flash support, one thing it hasn't been able to do natively is run YouTube videos. While free online converters have helped PSP owners out for the past few months, a new piece of homebrew software makes it possible to play YouTube videos directly on the PSP system.The download is available from Japanese homebrew developer, SofiyaCat. The latest download can always be found here. Obviously, a homebrew-capable PSP is required to run the program. After downloading the zip, move the appropriate folder to your PSP. (For example, 3.52 M33 owners will want to copy the PSPTube folder from 200over into PSP/GAME352, with the firmware set to 3.xx kernel.)
Then, you'll have to edit the psptube.cfg file with Notepad. You'll find a lot of weird looking text and then a line that says dev_id="". You'll have to acquire a YouTube developer account and throw in an account ID there. After that, you can launch the program from your PSP. Unfortunately, we were surprised to see that the program is not compatible with encrypted wi-fi signals, so make sure you go to an open network for best compatibility. The videos will play after a small amount of buffering, and will stretch to fill the entire PSP screen. It's not the best interface for YouTube, but we're still impressed by the results. Hopefully, Sony will see that YouTube support is very possible for PSP, and will include it in a future firmware update.
[Thanks to everyone that sent this in!]
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8-13-2007 @ 8:33PM
Peronthious said...
You don't have to play the video fully stretched inside the PSP screen; pressing Select will change the size. Also, pressing Start will pause the stream, so if it's not fully done buffering when it starts to play, you can pause until it's all done.
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8-13-2007 @ 8:50PM
nolookjones said...
also it works with wep encryption and the latest version lets you save videos to your memory stick...great prog
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8-13-2007 @ 11:06PM
Joshua said...
HEY QUESTION what does it mean change firmware to 3.xx kernal...??? sry idk
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8-13-2007 @ 11:08PM
SirPasta117 said...
Im not sure how to get An ID some can someone post one here?
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8-13-2007 @ 11:20PM
SirPasta117 said...
Hey heres a vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NSmmsnMfZg
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8-13-2007 @ 11:23PM
zoen151 said...
Homebrew kicks ass.
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8-15-2007 @ 2:26PM
Mike said...
Go to youtube.com/dev and get one in about 30 seconds if you have and account there. Just fill in the required fields with rubbish and it will spit one out at you. BTW the application works very well. only pause and play functions right now - but you can save videos as FLVs and play them from the memory stick. Granted it only plays shorter vids around 30secs but its much better than what we had before.
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9-02-2007 @ 10:41PM
Chaos2Oblivion said...
I did the stuff like you said but when i connect it just says NO VIDEO
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