Well, it took forever but...

Jen bought me a psp for my birthday back in June. Mostly I got it for Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7, as I am seriously addicted to the Final Fantasy series.

But, as far as hand held games go the psp is top shelf. Not only does it play games, but it does pictures, mp3s and video, and can surf the web. At least in theory. I've had mine for 3 months now and haven't been able to get it to play a video at all. It even has problems handling the mp3s when I port them over.

This I attribute mostly to my mac. I don't think they communicate right, at least for the mp3s.

I've spent a good portion of the last 3 months trying to make the videos work right to no avail. Even Google was no help.

In the last 3 months I have found out that it only plays mp4 video. Not only that but it only plays them with specific size a quality. In an attempt to make it work, I found a video converter that was supposed to covert anything to a psp file...

It didn't work.

On the psp card there is a directory name psp. On it you have sub directory for things, the music goes in the music directory, the photos in the photo directory. You would figure that videos would go in a video or movie directory. But no, it does work that way. It took me 2 months to find a webpage that told me this. It has to go in a specific directory, under the root director, in a sub directory, that has nothing to do with the psp directory...

I tried that, and it didn't work...

Today I was messing around with it again, and this time Google found a better page. This one explained that not only do you need to be in that specific directory, but they have to had specific file names too. You can't just drop any old file on there.

So, I renamed one of my mp4 files and dumped it on there, and bingo the psp could see it, after 3 months of no luck. But it still couldn't play it, it wasn't the right file format.

At the bottom of this page I found a link for psp software for the mac. I downloaded the free trial. Basically it works like palm desktop. You can tell it what to put on the psp and it will sync and added/remove things for you. What's more, it will convert any video file into one that the psp will play. I tested it, it works. For the first time in 3 months I got to watch a video on my psp.

Not only will this program convert video to watch it, it syncs up with Iphoto, Itunes and my address book. So I can check the songs/photos/videos I want on my psp and it will add/remove them as needed. The down side? To convert a video it take about an hour per 100 meg. So a normal movie (700 meg) will take about 7 hours to convert. But that's okay I can make it do it while I sleep.

The software is called PSPWare, and it rocks. Now I just need $15.00 to but it before the trial runs out.