Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) can play movies, music and photos as well as games. The console is already supported by a fine selection of commercially available movie and TV titles available in its own UMD (Universal Media Disc) format. But, at £20 a pop, it's not a cost-effective method of getting video content onto your PSP.
It is possible to transfer media from your PC directly to the PSP by using a Memory Stick memory card and playing it back from there. However, while it's relatively simple to dump MP3s and JPEGs onto the PSP's memory, it's notoriously difficult to transfer movies. X-oom's Movies on PSP is a cracking little program that makes the whole process an absolute breeze.
Simply pop a DVD into the PC, or browse for a movie file on your hard disk, and Movies on PSP handles the rest. Effectively, it encodes movies into a file format (MP4) that the PSP can understand, taking into account all the PSP's strict file-name and folder rules.




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