Convert YouTube Videos for the PSP

TechCrunch has a great article up today, with an included tool, that discusses downloading video from YouTube and playback on an iPod. As a non-iPod guy I thought I'd tweak their guide a tad to help you get your dl'd videos running on a PSP.

To get started you really only need two things: a downloaded YouTube Video and conversion software. For downloading the video I'll yield to the TechCrunch article, as stated earlier they include a tool for downloading the video and also list a few other options. Personally I use the VideoDownloader extension for Firefox.

For conversion I recommend SUPER the Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer. It's free, small, and very easy to use. To get videos ready for the PSP simply start up SUPER and select the appropriate format.

For the PSP you can select either the pre-defined "Sony PSP" setting or the "MP4" one. Just make sure that if you go with "MP4" you change the "Output Video Codec" to "MPEG-4."

Give SUPER a few minutes (or longer depending on the video size) and you're good to go.