What does “PSP ready” mean?

Videos marked with “PSP ready” are made to be played on a Sony PlayStation Portable. They have the maximum resolution that the PSP can handle (480×272 pixels). The required firmware is 3.30 or later.

They are, of course, playable on other devices as well. See the following FAQ answers below.

How do I play PSP videos on my PSP?

Note: you don’t need a PSP to play these videos. Check the FAQ answers below.

Place the MP4 file in the /VIDEO/ folder on your PSP memory stick. That’s about it. If you want a thumbnail image, place the corresponding JPG file in the same folder.

You can place the videos in a sub-folder like this: /VIDEO/Ai Otsuka/ for example.

I’ve heard some people say that you should remove your MP_ROOT folder to be able to play videos from the VIDEO folder, but that hasn’t been necessary for me.

Note that your PSP firmware version should be 3.30 or later to play full resolution PSP videos.

How to I play PSP videos on my PC?

These videos are encoded using the H.264/AVC codec. You can play them on your PC in many ways, including:

1. Windows 7 supports this video format by default. You can play it in Windows Media Player, but it will look better in Media Player Classic, which doesn’t use all the filters that the standard media player does.
2. Installing ffdshow (recommended for Windows XP).
3. Using VLC media player (recommended for Windows XP).
4. Using QuickTime 7 or later (not recommended, because QuickTime sucks).

Playing the videos in iTunes is not recommended, because iTunes sucks at video playback.

Can I play PSP videos on my PS3?

Absolutely! Just save them to your VIDEO folder or wherever you keep your video files.

Can I play PSP videos on my iPod?

These videos aren’t made for the iPod and iTunes says that they’re not supported, BUT you can play them on the 4th generation Nano if you use SharePod to transfer the videos. Some of the videos may be a little choppy at times, but most play fine. My guess is that they will work on the iPod Touch and the iPhone as well, but I haven’t tested that.

Set the option “fit to screen” to off on your iPod to get the full wide screen picture.

Note: If you’re using Sound Check on your iPod, the sound in the videos will be considerably louder than your music, so turn down the volume before starting the video. Be careful with your hearing!

What are the thm/thumbnail files for?

This is just an image that you put in the same folder as the video file on the PSP in order to get a thumbnail image next to the video when you’re browsing through them.

What software do you use to make these videos?

I use XviD4PSP.

Why can’t I download using my download manager/download accelerator?

Because I’m actively blocking them (see the answer about resuming downloads below for an explanation). Use your web browser’s built-in download function instead.

For some “unexplained reason” the download doesn’t work.

Turn off your download manager or download acceleration software and use your web browser’s built-in download function.

When I click on “download”, the video starts in QuickTime Player.

Files hosted on a different server (currently all of my downloads) will cause QuickTime to start if you have that plugin enabled in your browser. This is normal behaviour. There are two things you can do to avoid this:

1. Right-click the download link and “save target as…”. Note: if there’s an error message, you will have saved the page showing the message, see the following FAQ answer.
2. Disable the QuickTime plugin in your web browser. In FireFox you do this under Tools > Extensions > Plugins.

If you haven’t already closed the page containing the video loaded in the QuickTime plugin, you can save the video to disk by choosing File > Save page as…

I downloaded the file, but it won’t play and it’s very small.

One of two things has happened:

1. You’ve downloaded the file by right-clicking + “save target as…”, but there was an error. As a result you’ve saved the HTML-page displaying the error message instead of the file. To view the message either open the file in Notepad or rename the file to something.html and open it in your web browser.
2. The connection was interrupted when you downloaded. Try again.

If you downloaded a torrent file, open it with a BitTorrent client.

All I get is a “Please wait another x seconds…” or “Please refrain from using third party download software” message.

These are countermeasures I use because of limitations of my current file hosting service. Usually this means that you have tried to download the file using a download manager/accelerator of some kind. Try to download with your web browser’s normal download function instead.

If you click a download link several times (for example when it takes a long time before the download starts) within about 30 seconds between each click, your latest click will be denied. Wait at least the displayed amount of time before clicking the same link again.

Can I resume incomplete downloads?

Unfortunately no. Not with my current file hosting service. Check if there’s a BitTorrent link for the file you want.

The reason why I’ve had to block resuming or downloading in chunks is because the file host I’m using counts every access to the file as a whole download, so if you download a 30 MB file in 20 chunks it will count as if you downloaded 600 MB. So you can see how quickly the download limit would be exceeded.

I’ve reported this to the company running the service, but they don’t seem especially eager to fix this.

How do I download files using the PSP web browser?

Click the download link and follow the instructions. Save videos and thumbnails to VIDEO.

The file name is full of “%20″ when I save a video to my PSP.

This is because of an error in the PSP’s web browser. The %20 is supposed to be a space. For files hosted on my web server I can modify the response header to give the correct file name, but at the moment all videos are hosted on a file hosting service on a different server where I don’t have access to make such modifications.

You can either rename the files before downloading them on your PSP, or you can download them using a PC or rename them on a PC later.

How to I download files using the PS3 web browser?

Select the download link, press triangle and choose “save target”. Save videos to the VIDEO folder.

You’re currently not allowed to use background downloading for the same reasons as why you’re not allowed to resume downloads. If you try to use background downloading you will get an error and the download will fail.

It says “server problem” when I try to download.

The file hosting service I use is kind of unstable, so it’s likely that you run into a “server problem” message at some point. First, know that if you see a neat message that says “perberglund.com” at the bottom, it’s not my site that’s the problem, but the file hosting service. I have no power over their configuration. Second, read the information displayed for you. 99% of the time, the information you need is right there.

If you get “HTTP “-something as the “message” on the error page, you can try again straight away. If you get the same message again, wait for a few minutes.

If you get a “Technical difficulties” message, the service can be down for hours.

If there’s a “Maintenance” message, this usually states a time span during which the service will be down.

You don’t have to contact me. Every error of this kind is logged.

It says “bandwidth limit exceeded” when I try to download.

My current download server has a 25 GB daily bandwidth limit. It’s rarely exceeded, but when that happens you won’t be able to download via direct download until the bandwidth counter is reset. This can take up to 24 hours, but most likely it will take less time.

There’s no need to send me messages about “bandwidth problems”. Instead read the information displayed for you.

The download is slow.

What can I say? That’s too bad. Try connecting to a torrent, if one is available, and hope that someone closer to you geographically also connects.

Can you upload to MegaUpload/RapidShare/MediaFire/etc.?

You would think so, but no.

Why have I been banned from downloading?

You or someone with the same ISP has abused the download service. For example, you tried to automatically download all of, or a big portion of, my site. You’ve used some bad download manager software that’s been hammering the download server. Use your common sense.

The torrent I downloaded doesn’t have any seeders.

Click the status link that’s next to each torrent and check the history graphs. Sometimes I’m the only seeder and I turned my computer off for a few hours (oh, no!). If the torrent hasn’t been seeded in a long while, you can request a re-seed. Preferably in a comment on the post containing the torrent.

The torrent has seeders, but it doesn’t start downloading.

If you’re running PeerGuardian, check that it’s not blocking the connection. Otherwise it’s possible that the connection between you and the seeder(s) is too bad and your connection times out (check the logs in your BitTorrent client). Nothing to do in that case except hope that other seeders connect.

How does BitTorrent work? How do I download with BitTorrent?

I don’t say this often, but: google it.

What is a “web seed”?

A web seed is a web server that has all or some of the files that are in a torrent. If there are no seeders, or if you can’t connect to any seeders, your BitTorrent client (uTorrent or Azureus) will download the files from the web server instead.

May I link you your downloads?

You may link to the post containing the download, not to the actual file.

May I use your content on my site/YouTube/etc.?

Yes. I’d appreciate it if you wrote that it’s from perberglund.com and/or included a link to my site, though. Please don’t copy entire posts though. You may quote parts of them if you want to, as long as you state that it’s quoted from perberglund.com, but don’t copy the whole thing. Please.

Do you have an image to use for linking to your site?

Yes, I have this one.

Would you like to exchange links?

Contact me and we’ll discuss it.

How do I choose an avatar/image to show next to my comment?

You can connect your e-mail address to a so called globally recognized avatar at gravatar.com.

Why is there an ugly “monster” next to my comment?

It’s something called a “wavatar”. If you don’t have a gravatar associated with the e-mail address you supply when posting a comment, a “wavatar” is auto generated for you based on your e-mail address or name. If you want to choose your own avatar, get one at gravatar.com.

Why doesn’t my comment show up?

It’s possible that your comment got stuck in the spam filter. If you saw the “thank you” message, I have received the comment. If it was falsely classified as spam, I will “de-spam” the comment when I have time, and it will become visible.

I reserve the right to remove any comment for any reason. I will remove abusive comments and comments that have no other purpose but to promote another site (a.k.a. spam), for example. You are of course free to write whatever you want on your own blog and link back to my site.

Do you take requests?

To a certain extent, yes. But don’t request anything unless you’re willing to wait at least a week for it. Few things are less fulfilling than filling a request only to see that the person who requested it never checked back.

I don’t promise to fill any request, but I might do it from time to time.
And, please, if you have a request that’s unrelated to a post, leave it in the guestbook instead.

You mentioned rating the posts. I don’t see a rating feature.

The rating feature has been removed.

How do I know if someone has replied to my comment?

You can do one of the following things:

1. Check back later (obviously).
2. Subscribe to the main comments feed, where all public comments on the blog are shown.
3. Subscribe to the individual RSS feed for each post, that only shows comments to that specific post. You can find it above the comments.
4. There’s also a “recent comments” box in the sidebar on the front page.

Why haven’t you replied to my comment?

I reply to most comments. But sometimes I don’t, for various reasons. For example, if you commented on a post I made, but I feel there isn’t really a need to follow up that comment. Perhaps you posted a request - I rarely reply to those.

Or perhaps I simply haven’t had the time. I get all comments you make (except spam) to my e-mail, so I rarely miss new comments.

What can I do to support this site?

First and foremost, you can support this site by participating. That means leaving comments and rating the posts.

If you download 20-30 videos, the least you can do is leave one comment, don’t you think?

And rating a post is just one click.

You can also make a donation via PayPal. This is of course nothing you have to do. You can donate any amount, but keep in mind that PayPal charges a fee of $0.40 + a percentage for each transaction, so it’s better if you donate $10 once rather than $1 ten times. If you want to make a donation you can use the button below.

Another way of supporting the site is to click my affiliate links before making a purchase at the following places:

It won’t cost you anything extra at all to click those links before buying something.

Will you share my information (e-mail address) with anyone?

No, absolutely not.

Note, however, that if you write your e-mail address in the comment field (and not in the e-mail field) when you post a comment, your e-mail address will be visible along with the rest of your comment. If you enter your e-mail address in the designated field, it will not be published.

Will you send e-mails to my e-mail address?

I will reply to messages sent via the contact form via e-mail. I might reply to a question in your comment to a post via e-mail, but mostly I’ll just post a comment on the blog with the answer.

I will absolutely not send any unsolicited e-mails like ads, promoting contests, whining about how people don’t comment, or anything like that. I hate it when forum admins and such do that to me. If I have any announcements I’ll post them on the blog. I will absolutely not send them via e-mail.