{"id":1592,"date":"2006-08-07T10:16:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T10:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/bbc_vodcasts_on\/"},"modified":"2006-08-07T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T10:16:29","slug":"bbc_vodcasts_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/bbc_vodcasts_on\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Vodcasts on the PSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001712.html\">I noted<\/a> the other day that the BBC had launched &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/4977678.stm\">vodcasts<\/a>&#8221; of some of its news programming including a weekly Newsnight summary. I also mentioned that it was disappointing that the BBC hadn&#8217;t made the format available as anything other than an iPod friendly mp4.<br \/>\nWell of course mp4 files play on plenty of hardware. But trying to play it on my PSP was a struggle.<br \/>\nHowever, Sony has now released another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourpsp.com\">update<\/a> to its software &#8211; version 2.80 &#8211; which gets around this problem. You can now drop mp4 files into a VIDEO folder in the root of your Memory Stick Duo, and they&#8217;ll play. You don&#8217;t even have to rename them something strange, or drop them into some bizarrely named folder depending on the encoder used as you used to.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s worth noting that you do need to use the <em>root<\/em> of your PSP, not a PSP\/VIDEO folder as I first thought. But the Newsnight video works and plenty of other videos formatted for iPod should too &#8211; as long as they&#8217;re not encoded as .mov files I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted the other day that the BBC had launched &#8220;vodcasts&#8221; of some of its news programming including a weekly Newsnight summary. I also mentioned that it was disappointing that the BBC hadn&#8217;t made the format available as anything other than an iPod friendly mp4. Well of course mp4 files play on plenty of hardware. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}