
Originally Posted by
Psyberjock
I'm afraid I agree with you both on this one. In dOOmy's argument, I agree that we already have the built in MP4 player in the PSP's firmware that allows us to have a second copy of our movies and play them on the PSP. This software was originally made to prevent our having to take that extra step to reencode our video just to watch it on the PSP. And to an extent, it worked. Some avi's and mpegs worked right out of the box. (so to speak) This new version of PMP goes in the opposite direction for all practical purposes.
Now on the other hand I agree with Voltron that coding is not easy, especially for a system that has no open official docs available to homebrew coders. I also see that this is a step in the right direction on the groundwork level. A custom container requires a repackaging but not a reencode. We are actually using divx/xvid + mp3 now. However as to the exact reasons for using a custom container, I can only speculate that it is somehow more efficient than the avi container and thereby easier for the PSP to process.
So all in all I must say congrats to Johnny for hard work in the right direction but I must also encourage him to not stop there. The dream has not yet been realized and I do hope that he can accomplish that which we are all waiting for. I appreciate his software but until it plays what's on my harddrive already, I won't be using it.
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