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I'd like to suggest a conversion application, for those customers with existing videos that they wish to continue viewing on their updated PSP (like teac, above).  Hopefully, such an application wouldn't require anything as time-consuming and quality-degrading as re-encoding the video files  (since other mp4 files apparently still work, I would hope re-encoding is not necessary).



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/Mortal_Elf/

Looks like these folks are trying to do much the same thing:

http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board;=MSNCompanion&Post;=80&Idle;=0&Sort;=0&Order;=Descend&Page;=0&Session;=

The device they're hacking is different, but what they're trying to do (or, rather, are doing) is more or less the same.  So, this is turning out to be quite feasible.  Now, to wait for a decent-sized paycheck. . .   *sighs*



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/Mortal_Elf/

Wow, looks like we might not need to do any hacking, after all.  Advantech appears to sell exactly what we need:

http://www.advantech.com/epc/newsletter/v28-07-15_00/4IDEsup.htm

This looks pretty promising.



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/Mortal_Elf/

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Ex-Navy!

The adaptor to which you linked is very much in the same class as the ones I mentioned (and linked to), so that reinforces the feasibility for me.  As I said, power should probably come from a PC power supply, or from an external Hard Drive enclosure (I already have one, so I'd probably use it for any testing I had).

I had an idea about this; putting the Recorder, a hard drive, the aforementioned adaptor, and a power supply into a slimline PC case (such as this, which comes with power supply - http://www.ditcorp.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=CSEAPXDM317) and having a nice, stand-alone PVR.  Extend the IR receiver from the Recorder to the front of the PC case, and you're set.  As the Recorder runs off of 5V DC, you might even be able to pull its power from the PC power supply (though, as I'm not very practiced at hardware hacking, I'd be leary of trying it).  All in on nice, warrenty-voiding package.



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/Mortal_Elf/

*bump*

I know I've seen something hacked together like this (on a PSP hacks page).  The PSP only recognises 4 GB of any drive connected to it, however.  Of course, now that I try to find it. . .

I think the gist of it was to take a CF-to-IDE adaptor (like http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=16#p2607), then tear apart an old CF card, and hard-wire it to the CF/IDE adaptor, as an extension to reach the CF slot on the target device.  The CF card itself would be gutted, see, just using its pin connector wired to the adaptor.  Plus, of course, you need to provide power to the hard drive, via either PC power supply, or an external enclosure.

Well, I'd be quite interested if anyone can find a commercial version, or if anyone creates such a device.



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/Mortal_Elf/