I was just thinking about this today and was wondering what some of you may think. WIth all these rips and stuff coming out for games where you can make them smaller size, etc. I was wondering if it were possible to replace movies with ones that we encode?

The idea would be to find the smallest WORKING game that has a movie introduction and simply replacing that video file with one that we encode. Once the psp is running the game, its already tricked into thinking its a UMD disc thus not having the restrictions we have with playing vids off the memory stick.

- the smaller the game, the better (since we need all the space we can get for the movie).

if the game crashes (after the movie) who cares since its not being used a game but a video player. I have heard of some games that don't care about the filesize for the music files in them (Puzzle BObble) but i dont know if movie files are a different story. Movies on the games are probably not in mp4 format either so who knows.

Well we can't encode PMF files. Once we are able to do that we can just play them like a normal MPEG4 video through the Video menu on the PSP. We can't make our own PMF files yet, and once we can there isn't a reason to use your idea because it would be sort of redundant.

Unless I'm mistaken PMF files just show up as corrupt data when you try to play them from the video menu..

We can't but the PMF files are just the basis. Most UMD movies are using a similar format with just a different encoding algorith and extension.

If PMF files cant be played on video menu then perhaps my idea is not redundant? The firmware is still set to not allow a high-res output when playing videos via the video folder/memory stick.

Running a video via a game UMD would still be the way to go until they figure out how to trick the psp into running a video file off the stick by making it think the video is a UMD Video disc (much like were running game backups now).

After I posted this, i found that all the video files were indeed .pmf and that there is yet an encoder to create such a file.