PMPlayer Advance PSP

PMPlayer Advance
General
Author	cooleyes
Type	Media players
Version	3.1.5
License	GPL-2.0
Last Updated	2011/10/19
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PMPlayer Advance (PPA) is a media player for PSP.

Installation

Download contains the following files:

• ppa.eboot.en.fw3xx.3.1.5(20110421) - Main program.
• cooleyesBridge-20111019 - Fix cooleyesBridge in OFW 6.60.
• miniconv.eur.prx.20100325 - For multilingual support (see below).
• miniconv.cjk.prx.20090401 - For multilingual support (see below).

User guide

Supported file format

File format	Video	Audio
PMP Format V2 (*.pmp)	AVC, main profile, level 2.1, <=480*272	MP3
	MPEG-4 Part2, <=480*272	AAC
MP4 Format (*.mp4)	AVC, baseline profile, level 1.3, <=480*272	AAC
	AVC, main profile, level 2.1 or 3.0, <=720*480
	MPEG-4 Part2, <=480*272
MKV Format (*.mkv)	AVC, baseline profile, level 1.3, <=480*272	AAC
	AVC, main profile, level 2.1 or 3.0, <=720*480
FLV1 Format (*.flv)
	AVC, baseline profile, level 1.3, <=480*272	AAC
	AVC, main profile, level 2.1 or 3.0, <=720*480	MP3
Sorenson H.263, <=480*272

Multilingual

PPA is a Multilingual Homebrew. It uses miniconv.prx to convert between UTF-8 and your local codepage.

There are two miniconv.prx version, one is CJK, another is EUR.

• CJK miniconv.prx supports - GBK, BIG5, SHIFT-JIS, EUC-KR.
• EUR miniconv.prx supports - MS-EE, MS-CYRL, MS-ARAB, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-9.

Unzip the applicable miniconv.prx version, and replace the normal miniconv.prx in PPA3xx directory.

Subtitle

PPA support srt subtitle and microdvd subtitle. Subtitle file must be in the same directory with movie file, and have a same base filename, example "xxx.pmp, xxx.srt".

Set subtitle charset:

• In PPA browse view, open configuration view (Square).
• Select "Subtitles charset" (Circle), select codepage to suit your subtitle (Left/Right).
• Save the changes (Circle), then close configuration view (Triangle).

Set subtitle font file:

• Copy your font file to PPA font directory (PPA/fonts/).
• Open "config.xml" with a text editor.
• Set "config/subtitles/font/face" property value as your subtitle font filename, example 'face="subfont.ttf"'.
• Save config.xml.

USBHost

PPA can play your movie files in your PC, without copying them to PSP's Memory Stick.

How to setup:

• Run usbhostfs on your PC, connect PSP to PC with USB cable.
• Run PPA on PSP. In PPA browse view, open configuration view (Square).
• Select "USB Host" (Circle), change to ON (Left/Right), then save (Circle).
• Close configuration view (Triangle) and go back to the root (Start).
• Select "<usbhost0:>" and enter this dirctory (Circle).
• Browse your movie files, and play them.
• Note: To display correct filename, you shall also set "FileSystem Charset" to your local codepage.

NetHost

Use nethost, PPA can play your movie files in your PC, do not need to copy them to PSP's ms.

How to setup:

• Run nethostfs on your PC.
• Create a new "INFRASTUCTURE MOD" network entry on your PSP, PPA will use it to connect nethostfs.
• Run PPA on PSP. In PPA browse view, open configuration view (Square).
  • Select "Net Entry" (Circle), choose the network entry you created (Left/Right), then save (Circle).
  • Select "Net address" (Circle), enter your PC ip address (D-Pad), then save (Circle).
  • Select "Net port" (Circle), enter nethostfs listen port - default is "7513", then save (Circle).
  • Select "Net Host" (Circle), change to ON (Left/Right), then save (Circle).
  • Close configuration view (Triangle), go back to the root (Start).
• Select "<nethost0:>" and enter this directory (Circle).
• Browse your movie files, and play them.
• Note: To display correct filename, you shall also set "FileSystem Charset" to your local codepage.

TVOut

Requirement: PSP200X(slim) + OFW 3.71 or later.

How to setup:

• Connect PSP to TV with PSP TV adaptor cable.
• Run PPA on PSP, in PPA browse view, open configuration view (Square).
• Select "TV AspectRatio" (Circle), choose your TV aspectration, 16:9 or 4:3 (Left/Right), then save (Circle).
• Select "Video Mode"(Circle), select the video mode to suit your cable (Left/Right):
  • "PSP LCD" - Not tv out.
  • "Composite" - AV cable or S-Video cable.
  • "Component Interlace - Component Interlace cable.
  • "Component Progressive" - Component Progressive cable.
• Save the setting (Circle) and PPA will output the video on your TV set.

How to process TV overscan:

• Make PPA TVOut. In PPA browse view, open configuration view (Square).
• Select "TV AspectRatio" (Circle), select aspectration to "16:9" (Left/Right), then save (Circle).
• Select "TV OverScan(L.T.R.B)" (Circle), enter four overscan value (D-Pad), then save (Circle).
• If PPA browse view does not fill your TV set, go back to "TV OverScan(L.T.R.B)" and change the values.
• Select "TV AspectRatio" (Circle), select aspectration to suit your TV set (Left/Right), then save (Circle).

Controls

Browser:

L+Up/Down - Select top/bottom entry

L+Square - Turn on/off movie information preview

L+Select -Open skin select dialog

L+Triangle - Open version dialog

L+Start - Open quit dialog

Triangle - Open help dialog

Square - Open configuration view

Select - (if selected entry is a movie file) Open delete dialog

Start - Go to the root directory

Up/Down - Select previous/next entry

Circle - (if selected entry is a directory) Enter directory; (if selected entry is a movie file) Play file

Cross - (if selected entry is a movie file) Resume

While playing movie:

Triangle - Play stop

Square - Play pause/resume

Circle - (if playing) Turn on/off status bar, (if pause) Capture current video picture, save in ms0:/PICTURE/PPA/

Right/Left - Forward/Backward

Select - Select next audio stream

Up/Down - Amplify (+/-)

R/L - Luminosity boost (+/-)

Start - Select next aspect ratio

Cross+Right/Left - Fast forward/backward

Cross+R - Turn on/off play loop

Cross+L - Select next subtitle

Cross+Square - Select next subtitle font color

Cross+Circle - Select next subtitle font border color

Cross+Select - Select stereo, left, right

Cross+Start - Select display normal or inversion on PSP LCD

Screenshots

Known issues

https://code.google.com/archive/p/pmplayer-advance/issues.

External links

• Official website - http://cooleyes.fx-world.org/ (archived)
• Google Code - https://code.google.com/archive/p/pmplayer-advance/