Guide to putting movies onto your psp
I've tried pspvideo 9 but i personally prefer this way of putting vids on my psp.
For all of you who were wondering how to put movies on your psp memory card with out paying for the software you can get off of amazon heres how! I managed to get 4 music videos on the standard 32mb memory card along with 2 game saves but this was on the lowest quality setting. Enjoy
When you format a Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo stick in your Sony PSP (you do not need to format again to do this), you get a PSP folder, with sub-folders for “game”, “music”, “photos”, and “savedata”. But nothing for videos? What’s up with that? Well, it turns out that you need to put MPEG-4 video files in their own special folder, one that’s not in the PSP directory, but in the main root directory of the Memory Stick.
Just create a new folder in the root directory named MP_ROOT, and then make a folder called 100MNV01 in there. So your .MP4 files should go into F:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01, where F:\ is the drive letter of your Memory Stick. You also need a PC, as the converter software does not work with Macs. When added it should look like this:
First, we need to download 3GP Converter, currently in version 0.31 (2.7MB).
http://www.nurs.or.jp/~calcium/3gpp/
The site is non-english but just look for this section to download it.
Unzip the 3GPC .ZIP file into a directory of your choice, and run setup.exe. You may see a bunch of weird characters, but don’t worry, it’s set to Japanese by default. Scroll down to the bottom of the 3GP Converter Setup window and select English language, select Customized: MP4, for PSP (Direct, renamed) the then press Apply. This is the setting for conversion of video files to MPEG-4 format that can be played by the PSP, and renamed so your PSP recognizes it (such as M4V31337.MP4). Unfortunately, the PSP currently won’t recognize file names such as TheUsualSuspects.MP4 or TheOCSeason2Episode4.MP4.
Now, the 3GP Converter program window is open (if not, you can double-click the 3GP_Converter.exe program to run it). Click the Select button to choose where you want your converted PSP MP4 video files to reside. I just chose C:\3GP_Converter but you could use C:\Documents and Settings\Your Windows User Name\My Documents\My Videos\PSP to make finding them easier in the future
The program may ask you to install QuickTime Authoring before being able to convert your video files. A simple click of the Do It Now button will suffice.
The drop down box is what level quality setting you want your MP4 video to have. All outputted videos will have QVGA (320x240) resolution. You can choose from 15 or 29.97 frames per second, with 29.97 fps being a lot smoother. The third item listed in the quality settings is the video bitrate, the higher the bitrate, the better quality your video will turn out, with the highest quality being 1500kbps. The QB# settings appear to be variable bit rate (VBR) settings, where the converter will use a higher bitrate when necessary. The QB4 setting is the lowest quality VBR option, and QB10 the highest quality VBR. Next is the options for audio, choose between Mono or Stereo. The last bitrate is for your audio quality, you can choose from 32kbps (lower quality) to 128kbps (highest quality). The higher quality setting you choose, the slower it will be to convert.
Now drag whatever file you want to convert into MPEG-4 format into the blank area of the program window, the program will start the conversion straight away.When the program is finished converting the video into MP4 format, it will rename the file to something like M4V04895.MP4.
Now setup the USB connection (or take out your Memory Stick Pro Duo and stick in a reader) on your PSP to copy the video files over. The correct folder name for videos is F:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01 (where F: is the drive letter of your PSP). Copy your .MP4 video(s) over (the .THM files that 3GP Converter creates are not necessary for playback).
Then disconnect the PSP USB connection by pressing the X button.
Scroll over to Video in your PSP menu and select it by pressing the O button. It should list your converted MP4, with title, date, and length of video. Press O again and it will start playing.
There are four screen display modes, which you can choose from by pressing the triangle button. Scroll up to Screen Mode (2nd from left on the top row) and use the O button to scroll between Normal, Zoom, Full Screen, and Original modes. Normal is fine for regular 4:3 show viewing, Zoom gives you a closer view of the center of the video, Full Screen is perfect for 16:9 widescreen videos, and Original looks like it displays the video in a 320x240 pixel format. Enjoy!
For all of you who were wondering how to put movies on your psp memory card with out paying for the software you can get off of amazon heres how! I managed to get 4 music videos on the standard 32mb memory card along with 2 game saves but this was on the lowest quality setting. Enjoy
When you format a Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo stick in your Sony PSP (you do not need to format again to do this), you get a PSP folder, with sub-folders for “game”, “music”, “photos”, and “savedata”. But nothing for videos? What’s up with that? Well, it turns out that you need to put MPEG-4 video files in their own special folder, one that’s not in the PSP directory, but in the main root directory of the Memory Stick.
Just create a new folder in the root directory named MP_ROOT, and then make a folder called 100MNV01 in there. So your .MP4 files should go into F:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01, where F:\ is the drive letter of your Memory Stick. You also need a PC, as the converter software does not work with Macs. When added it should look like this:
First, we need to download 3GP Converter, currently in version 0.31 (2.7MB).
http://www.nurs.or.jp/~calcium/3gpp/
The site is non-english but just look for this section to download it.
Unzip the 3GPC .ZIP file into a directory of your choice, and run setup.exe. You may see a bunch of weird characters, but don’t worry, it’s set to Japanese by default. Scroll down to the bottom of the 3GP Converter Setup window and select English language, select Customized: MP4, for PSP (Direct, renamed) the then press Apply. This is the setting for conversion of video files to MPEG-4 format that can be played by the PSP, and renamed so your PSP recognizes it (such as M4V31337.MP4). Unfortunately, the PSP currently won’t recognize file names such as TheUsualSuspects.MP4 or TheOCSeason2Episode4.MP4.
Now, the 3GP Converter program window is open (if not, you can double-click the 3GP_Converter.exe program to run it). Click the Select button to choose where you want your converted PSP MP4 video files to reside. I just chose C:\3GP_Converter but you could use C:\Documents and Settings\Your Windows User Name\My Documents\My Videos\PSP to make finding them easier in the future
The program may ask you to install QuickTime Authoring before being able to convert your video files. A simple click of the Do It Now button will suffice.
The drop down box is what level quality setting you want your MP4 video to have. All outputted videos will have QVGA (320x240) resolution. You can choose from 15 or 29.97 frames per second, with 29.97 fps being a lot smoother. The third item listed in the quality settings is the video bitrate, the higher the bitrate, the better quality your video will turn out, with the highest quality being 1500kbps. The QB# settings appear to be variable bit rate (VBR) settings, where the converter will use a higher bitrate when necessary. The QB4 setting is the lowest quality VBR option, and QB10 the highest quality VBR. Next is the options for audio, choose between Mono or Stereo. The last bitrate is for your audio quality, you can choose from 32kbps (lower quality) to 128kbps (highest quality). The higher quality setting you choose, the slower it will be to convert.
Now drag whatever file you want to convert into MPEG-4 format into the blank area of the program window, the program will start the conversion straight away.When the program is finished converting the video into MP4 format, it will rename the file to something like M4V04895.MP4.
Now setup the USB connection (or take out your Memory Stick Pro Duo and stick in a reader) on your PSP to copy the video files over. The correct folder name for videos is F:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01 (where F: is the drive letter of your PSP). Copy your .MP4 video(s) over (the .THM files that 3GP Converter creates are not necessary for playback).
Then disconnect the PSP USB connection by pressing the X button.
Scroll over to Video in your PSP menu and select it by pressing the O button. It should list your converted MP4, with title, date, and length of video. Press O again and it will start playing.
There are four screen display modes, which you can choose from by pressing the triangle button. Scroll up to Screen Mode (2nd from left on the top row) and use the O button to scroll between Normal, Zoom, Full Screen, and Original modes. Normal is fine for regular 4:3 show viewing, Zoom gives you a closer view of the center of the video, Full Screen is perfect for 16:9 widescreen videos, and Original looks like it displays the video in a 320x240 pixel format. Enjoy!
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