PSP avi player

[luck]

Hello,

I've recently bought a PSP for my little brother, it was love at first sight, and I ended up boughting one for me, too. In my oppinion it's (one of) the most powerful handhelds, hardware wise.

I was a little intrigued, though, that there is no avi player (I'm talking divx/xvid video with mp3/ac3 sound) out there for the PSP. Is this correct, or I just didn't look good enough? Or maybe there are some ongoing projects, with nothing yet released (I've read that the 4.0 firmware will most likely have divx support)?

If it's correct, my question is if it's really that technically impossible (porting parts of ffmpeg, for example), and if the answer is yes, what are the reasons?

Also, the same question could be applied to mpeg1/2, wmv, and all the other formats supported by ffmpeg.

If the answer is no (meaning it's technically possible), on the other hand, I'd be very interested in starting such a project.

Thanks!

[cyberfish]

I believe the official firmware includes a mp4 player. AVI I'm not so sure.

From what I recall, you need to encode your video specifically for the psp (dimensions and such), so I imagine it would be too heavy to do (resizing every frame) on the fly on the PSP. Either that or Sony is too lazy.

I might be wrong on that though.

As for porting ffmpeg, I have no idea :).

[luck]

Yes, I know that it includes an mpeg4 video/mpeg4 aac lc audio - packed in mp4 container - decoder (and also a player, in the XMB), but it's kind of frustrating to wait 30 minutes to transcode a 15 minutes video from avi to mp4, not to talk about subtitles, cropping, setting aspect ratio and other goodies.

I was expecting somebody already tried to take a shot at this and failed miserably, hitting some kind of bottleneck. :-)

[J.F.]

People used to use PSPlayerMT for generic AVIs, but these days they use PSPTube for that. You should go to someplace like MaxConsole for that. This is a developer board.