I've been fighting to get PSP video working consistently for what feels like years now, and so I'm going to document the workflows that work for me. For reference, I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.1 and I've got the latest PSP firmware, which at the moment is version 3.8.
DVD 16x9 source
Handbrake 0.9.1
Choose the PSP preset
Change Codec to "AVC/H.264 Video /AAC Audio"
Go into Picture Settings and Change Width to 480, Close
Go to Advanced Tab and type "level=3" in the x264 Advanced Option String
After encoding, place file into the /VIDEO/ folder of the PSP (no renaming required)
DVD 4x3 source
Handbrake 0.9.1
Choose the PSP preset
Change Codec to "AVC/H.264 Video /AAC Audio"
Go into Picture Settings and Change Height to 272, Close
Go to Advanced Tab and type "level=3" in the x264 Advanced Option String
After encoding, place file into the /VIDEO/ folder of the PSP (no renaming required)
AVI (or other video file) 16x9 source
ffmpegx 0.0.9x r1 (this is a version behind)
Choose the PSP H.264 preset
After encoding, place file without renaming (it'll be named MAQxxxxx.MP4) into the /MP_ROOT/100ANV01/ folder of the PSP
AVI 4x3 source
ffmpegx 0.0.9x r1 (this is a version behind)
Choose the PSP H.264 preset
Go to the Video tab and change the Video Size to 272 x 208
After encoding, place file without renaming (it'll be named MAQxxxxx.MP4) into the /MP_ROOT/100ANV01/ folder of the PSP
The last two are not ideal, but they work.
ffmpegx can be a pain to set up.
Comments
it has been years...
Are you not seeing the audio de-sync issues anymore?
Posted by: sdf | January 17, 2008 9:20 AM
No, I don't have audio sync issues anymore. The issues I have these days are just getting files that won't play at all (like if I try to get a higher resolution result from an AVI source).
Posted by: Fuzzy Gerdes
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January 17, 2008 10:58 AM
i've just spend whole day trying to figure out how to play h.264... how come some of them need to be in MP_ROOT/ whereas some will just play from VIDEO? thanks in advance. cheers.
Posted by: dom | February 23, 2008 1:09 AM
Dom, the short answer is that I don't really know *why* it works, which is why I documented these recipes for myself, because I know they *do* work. It's a little frustrating, because I like to understand things, but I've channeled the time I would have been worrying about it into watching videos on my PSP :-)
Posted by: Fuzzy Gerdes
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February 23, 2008 11:26 AM
that's probably the best thing to do :).
thanks for the recipes, very helpful anyway.
cheers!
Posted by: dom | February 23, 2008 2:26 PM