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What Is It?
A specialized set of MPEG-4 settings that will play on the PSP.
What Plays It?
PSP, or PlayStation Portable, released in spring 2005.
More Information
The PlayStation Portable is Sony's grand entrance into the portable gaming market. It's a "jack of all trades", competing
with both the GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS, and iPod. Its crazy-bright and glossy 480x272 widescreen display
makes for great video playback. Sony has placed a lot of restrictions on video formats though, crippling its higher-quality
video capabilities.
Easy Settings One-by-One
Standard/Anamorphic 16:9
“Standard” is the best choice for most video types and most situations. Anamorphic allows the absolute best-possible
resolution for widescreen movies.
The PSP has a widescreen display, capable of stretching video to fit. Video in the
4:3 aspect (most traditional video) can be viewed either with black bars on the
sides of the image, or stretched to fill the entire display. Either way has its
advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I prefer black bars on the sides so the
video doesn't look "squished".
Widescreen aspects such as 16:9 (high-definition TV shows, nearly all movies) can be
displayed on the PSP with no black bars. Due to limitations in the PSP’s firmware,
widescreen video can't be played at the highest-possible resolution. “Anamorphic”
treats widescreen source video as 4:3. Playback on a computer will result in everything
looking "squished"...but the PSP will stretch the video back to its native aspect, giving
you a crisper, higher quality widescreen video. Depending on the source, you may find that Standard provides better
picture quality. Use whichever setting suits your tastes.
Quality
If visual quality isn't as important as just getting the message across, you can set the quality slider to "Low" or "Tiny". If
the video demands the absolute best quality possible, choose "High" or "Go Nuts". "Go Nuts" Pushes Your PSP To The
Max. This setting may take over 2 times as much space as "Standard", but will look nominally better.
This is a personal preference. "Standard" is good for the majority of users and video types. The rest is up to you.
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