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INSIDER SECRETS: Put video on your PSP
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Put video on your PSP
 Tip 3: Rename your files
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Rename your files
One of Sony's many brilliant moves in crippling the PSP's video functionality was to insist on an opaque and inflexible file system for movies on the Memory Stick; if a video file isn't named "M4V1000number.mp4" and located in the \MP_ROOT\100MNV01 directory, your PSP will pretend it doesn't exist. Luckily, PSP Video 9.0 allows you to customize the titles of your converted movies, so you can tell them apart without worrying about sifting through a sea of random letters and numbers.

Watch the video to see the renaming happen.

To customize and copy your movies over to your PSP, make sure your device is connected, then click the Copy button on the top menu bar. In the left field, select the file that you'd like to rename, then on the bottom of the screen, click the File Info tab. Then, edit the Title field to your specifications and click the Apply button. Once that's done, simply drag the video from the left field into the right field, wait for the transfer to finish...and you're done. Unlink your PSP and start enjoying video!


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Rob Dubbin Submitted by:
Rob Dubbin
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Rob Dubbin's experience with portable gaming stretches back to the time when he linked two first-generation Game Boys and tried to play Tetris against himself. Needless to say, the ability to rotate two L-shaped blocks at once proved incredibly useful while learning to transfer videos onto the PSP. When he's not watching past episodes of 24 on the subway or launching endless three-point barrages against online opponents in Sony's NBA, Rob covers gaming and digital imaging for CNET.com.
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