New PSP.

hashcake · 26 May 2008 at 15:04

I am the happy owner of a new PSP Slim & Lite

I hunted around online and think I found the best deal on the high st of all places.
PSP, MOH Heroes 2, 2GB memory card and a protection pack (soft case, screen protector, earphones and 2 x UMD cases) all for £149.99.
Most of the deals I found had games that didn't appeal to me except for this one.

Anyway, one quick question, can anyone recommend some software to convert xvid moviles / tv stuff so I can play them on the PSP?

fergie666 · 26 May 2008 at 15:22

Congrats on your purchase.

I use PSPVIDEO9 and it works well for everything i have converted.

Best of all, it's free

hashcake · 26 May 2008 at 17:48

fergie666 said:
I use PSPVIDEO9 and it works well for everything i have converted.
Best of all, it's free

Thanks for the tip.
I've just used it to convert an episode of the unit and the quality of the conversion is very impressive.

HarryPainful · 26 May 2008 at 17:49

Slight hijack but whats the battery life like on the slim?

I know what its quoted to be but in terms of real use?

hashcake · 26 May 2008 at 20:30

HarryPainful said:
Slight hijack but whats the battery life like on the slim?

I know what its quoted to be but in terms of real use?

I'll answer that once I have given the battery a hammering.

Oh, and another quick question - is it possible to stream audio / video to the PSP?
I've looked at all the settings but I can't see a way for the PSP to scan for a media server.

JUMPURS · 26 May 2008 at 21:27

not from a media server. There was a script that published your iTunes library as an RSS feed that worked not too bad.

Do you have a PS3? If so that is your easiest way.

Thesnipergecko · 26 May 2008 at 22:29

Just out of curiosity what sort of size does it convert a 350meg tv episode down to?

T.

hashcake · 26 May 2008 at 22:37

Thesnipergecko said:
Just out of curiosity what sort of size does it convert a 350meg tv episode down to?T.

There are custom settings available.
When I tried the first episode of the unit I set the setting to max and this made the file size around 550mb (orginal xvid is around 350mb).
The 2nd episode I recoded to around 350mb.

Thesnipergecko · 26 May 2008 at 22:49

Did you lower the resolution of the video for that? Surely the file should be much much smaller?

T.

Sho · 27 May 2008 at 08:28

i use this for my psp XviD4PSP 5.0

monkeyspank · 27 May 2008 at 09:41

Thesnipergecko said:
Did you lower the resolution of the video for that? Surely the file should be much much smaller?

T.

PSP res is 480x272 which isn't all that much smaller than downloaded shows. It's about 3 times smaller than PAL DVD.

jonshaw_uk · 27 May 2008 at 09:53

think im gonna have to get a psp - you can do loads with them now

Yrkoon · 29 May 2008 at 00:10

pimpstreamer will allow streaming from a pc to the psp but its homebrew so cant really talk about it so google for the win

edit: btw i stopped using pspvideo9 as it wouldn't get subtitles showing up on matroska? coded files and i found psp video converter to be a better program overall

heres a link to a later version my one is 2.4 while the link is 2.6 http://www.download3k.com/MP3-Audio...odecs/Download-PSPVC-PSP-Video-Converter.html