How to put Videos on the PSP
Article by Richard Black
Hello Everyone!
The PSP is a great way to carry music, photos, games and movies around on a small, little, portable device. And it’s reasonably simple to put music and such onto the flash memory. But I did a search on Google recently and was shocked to find hardly any articles on how to put videos on the PSP (which is probably the trickiest thing). I wrote this article to help those struggling with putting videos onto the PSP.
There are two ways to get videos onto your PSP. A simple way, and a more complex way. The simple way is… well… simple. Head on over to pspvideo9.com and download the software. PSP Video 9 is probably the best and most effective way of converting and putting videos onto your PSP. It’s free as well, which is a great bonus.
The other way is to do it the ‘nerdy-er’ way. The steps for that are below.
When you format a new memory stick for your PSP, you get subfolders for the following: ‘game’, ‘music’, ‘photos’ and ‘savedata’. You will note that there is no folder for ‘video’! What? What’s up with that? Oh well, doesn’t matter, we can always fix it.
1. Make a new folder in the root directory (the first folder that pops up when you open the drive on your computer) called MP_ROOT.
2. Open MP_ROOT.
3. Create a new folder called (without the full-stop) 100MV01.
4. So, all your.MP4 files need to do in the 100MV01 folder, which will be in MP_ROOT. For all the people that love more complex stuff, the.MP4 files go in E:\MP_ROOT0MV01 where E:\ is the drive letter of your memory stick.
5. Next, your videos will will need to be converted to PSP format… which leads us back to pspvideo9.com. If you can be bothered NOT using their way of organizing videos, simply put the converted video to the file E:\MP_ROOT0MV01. Done!
Now, all you have to do, is on the PSP menu, navigate to ‘Video’ and press O. There is your video (or videos!)! Play it by pressing O.
To sum up: pspvideo9.com is the best way to both convert and manage your digital video on the PSP. Sony does not make it easy to put videos on the PSP, but it can be done several ways. Thank you for reading.
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Richard Black writes simple instructions for trickier stuff. Did you like this article? Go to Richard’s blog for other stuff – http://tinyurl.com/yvkuop.
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