How to Watch Video on Your PSP - PSP-FAQ

How do you watch video on your PSP? It's pretty easy! You can watch video on your PSP if you have a PC, PSP, and MSDuo with enough capacity (512+MB recommended). All you have to do is convert a video file you already have into a format that is compatible with PSP.

Choose an Encoder

Free or Paid?

Now, we have two different encoding soft wares. One is free and the other is paid.

* For Windows
- Image Converter 2 (Paid, $19.99, officially distributed by Sony)
- KEITAIDOUGAHENKANKUN (3GP_Converter) (Free, distributed by a Japanese developer)

* For Mac OS
- altShiiva (Free)

* Pros and Cons of free soft wares (3GP_Converter, altShiiva)
Pro1: Free!!
Pro2: Available on Mac OS
Con1: WMA is not supported.
Con2: Not supported by Sony.

I recommend 3GP_Converter and the following is a tutorial of it. But if you have no idea what's going on in the following, you should use Image Converter 2 that is an official software and get Sony's support.

Tutorial - How to convert your video with 3GP_Converter

Quicktime

Quicktime must be installed to your PC to operate converting. Please go to Apple.com and get it.

Create a folder (directory)

Create a folder named "100MNV01" in the folder "MP_ROOT" in your MS Duo.
You must input "100MNV01" in CAPITAL letters.

Install & Configure 3GP_Converter

Go to the official site (http://www.nurs.or.jp/~calcium/3gpp/), and download the latest version of 3GP_Converter.
The latest version is 0.34 as of Mar. 16, 2006.

After the download, you can dispatch it in any folder you like.

Double-click Setup.exe (not 3GP_Converter.exe) to get it configured.

After you see the window above, select English (,or any one convenient for you) and select "Model: MP4, for PSP (Direct, renamed)" from the upper blank.

Now, Let's Start Encoding!

Please launch 3GP_Converter.exe.
Select the quality setting which you like. (I often use "QVGA/15fps/384kbps Stereo/64kbps")

After selecting the quality, drag and drop your movie file into the upper blank. Your movie file is shown like this:

Check the message saying "Convert successfully finished" and copy the converted files (M4V*****.MP4, M4V*****.THM) to the folder "100MNV01" in your MS Duo. (* is a randomly chosen number)
M4V*****.THM is a file for thumbnail and you don't necessarily copy it.

FAQ

How can I make a PSP-compatible video file from my DVD?

DVD is encrypted with CSS and you need to decrypt it with the soft wares like DVD Decrypter.

Show me the detail and specs of 3GP_Converter.

Please go to PSPWiki (http://psp.holybell.to/index.php?mp4#content_1_9) (Japanese).