As noted in my previous PSP post, one annoyance of the PSP was that video from Memory stick was limited to less-than-full resolution, probably to push UMD video sales. It took a while, but hackers cracked that limitation, and shortly thereafter official PSP firmware version 3.30 removed it as well. Full-res 480x272 16 by 9 glory can be yours!

I trundled off to the Visualhub forums, and put in a feature request, and commended myself to patience. (After, of course, trying to hack the advanced settings in visual hub, which produced a file soundly rejected by my PSP. Sigh.)

Anyway, today the Tao of Mac solved it for me:

Converting video to the new PSP 3.30 480x272 native resolution (16:9 ratio):

* PSP / AVC / Go Nuts
* In the advanced panel: set res to 480 x 272
* In the ffmpeg options: "-bf 1 -level 21"

I’m-a encoding now… Man, I hope this works. I have some travel coming up, and a few hours of ultra-res widescreen would really help.

Tip from last trip: Avoid JFK. Period.