[Definitive] Sony PSP Thread

[BroChaos Veteran]

yep, mine was supposed to ship today, just got bumped back to 5/2....arg...

[zachman123]

I NEED to get a memory stick, the 32meg one is killing me. I've been trying to get a 200mb show (the new (unreleased) family guy) down to under 32 megs, and it's pure torture.

I got it down to 42mb fine, but the last few megs I've been ahving trouble shaving off

[sundayx Veteran]

I NEED to get a memory stick, the 32meg one is killing me.  I've been trying to get a 200mb show (the new (unreleased) family guy) down to under 32 megs, and it's pure torture.

I got it down to 42mb fine, but the last few megs I've been ahving trouble shaving off

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dude face it, 32mb cant do ****. get at least a 128. preferably 512

[jamend]

I NEED to get a memory stick, the 32meg one is killing me.? I've been trying to get a 200mb show (the new (unreleased) family guy) down to under 32 megs, and it's pure torture.

I got it down to 42mb fine, but the last few megs I've been ahving trouble shaving off

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I've managed to fit 22 minute shows like South Park on the 32 MB stick. Use ffmpeg (the encoder that comes with PSP Video 9) with the following example command:

"C:\Program Files\pspvideo9\apps\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i "C:\downloads\jake.in.progress.s01e13.hdtv.xvid-tcm.[BT].avi" -title "jake.in.progress.s01e13.hdtv.xvid-tcm.[BT]" -timestamp "2005-04-04 10:30:41" -bitexact -vcodec xvid -s 240x176 -r 14.985 -b 160 -acodec aac -ac 1 -ar 24000 -ab 32 -f psp "C:\M4V10099.mp4"

That's with a listenable 32 KB/s audio bitrate (mono, so it's equivalent to 64 KB/s) and a watchable 160 KB/s video bitrate. You might want to sacrifice some video quality for audio quality though. I mostly just watch stuff on the noisy metro so I don't really notice.

Of course you'd need to change the path to ffmpeg if you didn't install it to the default place, and the file and title to whatever it is you want to encode. The timestamp doesn't seem to do much, and you can just put whatever you want for the output filename as long as it's M4V1xxxx.mp4. I'm not sure if a THM file is needed, but I just take one from another film that PSP Video 9 encoded and rename it to match the output file of ffmpeg (the THM file seems to define the thumbnail of the clip that you see on the PSP).

Edited April 26, 2005 by Cephas

[zachman123]

thanks for that setup! I've been trying to find the perfect match and that's exactly what I need.

[DiEMOS]

is everyone enjoying their psps :p

[zachman123]

Hmm, that bitrate fits on the card, but doesn't give me space for my savegames. I tried lowering the bitrates and sampling rate but I got an "incompatible data" error or something on the PSP. Anyone know what this means?

[jamend]

Did you lower it in multiples of 8?

Edit: Also, the audio bitrate in the example is 32 KB/s, not 24 KB/s.

Edit2: On a related note, what did you change the audio sampling rate to?

[zachman123]

doh, probably messed up with the 8.

[zachman123]

Fixed it, now it's (almost) perfect :D

The video is a tad blurry at times, but it's amazing considering it's a 32meg card.

[Liquid]

I just when to convert some MP3's to 64Kbps atrac3plus for my PSP, and I transfered it to my PSP, tried to play and it didnt show. I looked in the manual and it says Only Memory Stick Duo can play atrac3plus? Wtf? Why cant pro?

btw atrac3plus 64kbps sounds just as good as 192kbps MP3s

[zjoden]

I finally got mine.

I'm soo happy.

now i only need a bigger memstick =_=

:D ZJODEN

[Jazza]

I just when to convert some MP3's to 64Kbps atrac3plus for my PSP, and I transfered it to my PSP, tried to play and it didnt show.  I looked in the manual and it says Only Memory Stick Duo can play atrac3plus?  Wtf?  Why cant pro?

btw atrac3plus 64kbps sounds just as good as 192kbps MP3s

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Why convert from MP3?? the PSP can play MP3's

[Amnesia]

i have a 512mb one for sale (please check neobay)

it'll only appeal to UK people though.

[jamend]

I just when to convert some MP3's to 64Kbps atrac3plus for my PSP, and I transfered it to my PSP, tried to play and it didnt show.  I looked in the manual and it says Only Memory Stick Duo can play atrac3plus?  Wtf?  Why cant pro?

btw atrac3plus 64kbps sounds just as good as 192kbps MP3s

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Are you using SonicStage?

[forster]

Ordered:

PSP Standard Pack

Ridge Racers

USB charger / transfer 2in1 cable

Screen protector

Anti-shock case

512 Pro Duo

(Y)

There's nothing like an overdraft :laugh:

[Liquid]

Are you using SonicStage?

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Yes... It says in the manual that Memory Stick PRO Duo with magic gate will not support it though. It makes no sense...

[sundayx Veteran]

anyone here got a psp with NO ZERO NIL NONE dead pixels?

[BroChaos Veteran]

i don't have any dead pixels, but i have a buttload of dust specks.

i think the dust is more common, i'd like to know how many people don't have any dust specks.

[Liquid]

anyone here got a psp with NO ZERO NIL NONE dead pixels?

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I have no dead pixels. But I have what no one else has. I have two small, like pin head marks on my screen. Its very odd. They show up green on an angle. Very hard to notice tho.

[zjoden]

Damn 32mb is small :p.

i'm trying to put some anime on there but i can't get those episodes smaller than 40mb >_<

:D ZJODEN

[Kerm]

Right, if i buy a Psp from Japan/Malaysia will it have an English language option?

And will it, or is there anyway to make it able to play UK games? + compatible with UK stuff?

Thanks.

[matthewf01]

Right, if i buy a Psp from Japan/Malaysia will it have an English language option?

And will it, or is there anyway to make it able to play UK games? + compatible with UK stuff?

Thanks.

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Just sold off my Japanese system, I have an american one too.

When you first power ont the system, you are stepped through basic setup options. The FIRST one is language, english is plain as day. Select it and youll have no problem.

It will play games from ANY region, ANYWHERE in the world. Games are not region-locked.

UMD MOVIES, however, ARE locked. Only movies from your region will work...although is the UK's region the same as japan or something like that? i thought i heard someone say that...

[Kerm]

Ok, cool.

Is there anyway to 'unlock' the psp for UK movies?

Don't you just stick movies onto the mem stick to play? Or can you buy proper disks?

If the first i could just put video files onto the mem stick, no?

[matthewf01]

Ok, cool.

Is there anyway to 'unlock' the psp for UK movies?

Don't you just stick movies onto the mem stick to play? Or can you buy proper disks?

If the first i could just put video files onto the mem stick, no?

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I would actually reccommend that you just buy the proper DVD copy of whatever film you want (then you can actually USE it elsewhere!), then use your PC to rip the dvd, shrink it down, encode it to MP4, and throw it onto a 512MB or 1GB memorystick.

You will actually benefit from increased battery life while playing movies because the memstick obviously uses A LOT LESS power than the system constantly hammering the UMD drive to play back the movie.

Unfortunately there is not yet any way to unlock the region-locking on movies...give it time though, you never know. But for now, memstick is a good solution to get anything you want to play on there!