PSPCasting

ChipGuy writes "Om Malik points out the launch of Sony PSP in US could actually turn Sony's fortunes around and thinks that new unqiue applications like Sajeeth Cherian's latest software, PSP Video 9, might be the real reason. Cherian created Videora bit torrent client's new hack, PSP Video 9. It takes any video and turns it into a format that PSP can read. So now you can download videos using Videora, and then convert them to PSP friendly format within a few seconds.He calls this PSP casting."

Re:After conversion....How do you get it on the PS

[The Eagle Maint]

Sony's UMD format discs which they're using for the PSP can't be burned yet as far as I know. For now at least, music, movies and pictures can only be put on the memory stick via a card reader or by hooking your PSP up to your PC via USB and transferring it that way.

Re:cool ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Its better in that a mini tv set that has neither media card slot, not video decoder (e.g. for films)

Its less good in that it has no TV tuner...

It would let you record from TV, through to media PC, through to PSP. So record that late night show while you sleep, then watch while you commute...

The real answer

[Anonymous Coward]

As a programmer I can give you the reason we don't add support for any of this stuff and instead developed (well... bought) a proprietary video playback codec. (Actimagine makes a great codec, easy to program with, but a bit expensive)

We hate our users, it is really that simple, we hate them and want them all to die.

Ok, all joking aside, we used Actimagine for one simple reason. To cut down compatibility issues. DO you realize that both Xvid and Divx are based on other codecs and are constantly evolving. What happens in a year or two when the codecs has become obsolete. We can't upgrade so we are stuck with either claiming support for obsolete codecs or never including them in the first place. From a PR standpoint it is better to be proprietary then to be outdated.

Re:PSP video format

[sh00z]

I'm not sure what you mean by "proprietary" in this case, as the PSP uses MPEG-4, which is No more proprietary than MPEG-2 [m4if.org], your counter-example.

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Re:After conversion....How do you get it on the PS

[SirDrinksAlot]

You put everything on a Memory Stick Duo. Theres no way to write disks for it (yet?)

It uses a MPEG4 format for the videos too, its not some crazy proprietary format just a slightly modified version of mpeg4 IIRC. Makes it easy to transcode. This is why theres already so many converters to toss video onto PSPs