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tricky69

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1,696 posts

249 months

Tuesday 19th April 2005
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How do you change the colour of the background on the main screen ?? Looked in the manual but can't find how to do it !

Any Help most appreciated !

Fer

7,734 posts

287 months

Tuesday 19th April 2005
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The background colour depends on the date. Each month it is a different colour. If you are desparate to chance it, you will have to update the date.

January = Grey
February = Dull-Yellow
March = Lime-Green
April = Pink
May = Dark-Green
June = Light-Purple
July = Tealish-Blue
August = Blue
September = Purple
October = Gold
November = Brown
December = Red

>> Edited by Fer on Tuesday 19th April 14:39

tricky69

Original Poster:

1,696 posts

249 months

Tuesday 19th April 2005
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thats a bit annoying, not that bothered though....
can you set pictures as backgrounds ?

m-five

11,446 posts

291 months

Tuesday 19th April 2005
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tricky69 said:
thats a bit annoying, not that bothered though....
can you set pictures as backgrounds ?


You can by selecting the picture from your images and choosing 'set as background'. However it only lasts as long as the PSP is switched on, and reverts to default on restart.

Pierscoe1

2,458 posts

268 months

Tuesday 19th April 2005
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hmm. annoying that.. got to be fixable with a "special" firmware update though..

tricky69

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1,696 posts

249 months

Thursday 21st April 2005
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Pierscoe1 said:
hmm. annoying that.. got to be fixable with a "special" firmware update though..


what does that mean ? How do you do a firmware update ?

m-five

11,446 posts

291 months

Thursday 21st April 2005
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He means that he is sure that someone will come along with a cracked firmware update to remove Sony's limitations and/or add other features (such as persistent custom backgrounds and UMD movire region free).

Pierscoe1

2,458 posts

268 months

Thursday 21st April 2005
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there was a leak of some firmware update a while ago, that had suggestions of the wordpad/spreadsheet/calendar functionality in it... apparently could screw up your PSP, but sony offered to replace any PSP's compromised by the update, as it was a sony leak...

hence the possibility of firmware updates.. there are already some around, that you download to your PC, copy to a memory stick, and bung in your PSP.. can't remember what the current ones do, but a couple of the guys at work have done it..

if it's on your PC, some clever buggers will fiddle with it to everyone's delight!

maranellouk

2,066 posts

270 months

Thursday 21st April 2005
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Ok, I need help now. That infernal GP3 software that changes files straight to the PSP keeps giving me error reports when I try to convert an AVI file. That includes all the Brunters Runs!

I have downloaded about 30 Simpsons episodes and have managed to compress the 60-70gb files to 5-7mb. So I can fit a ton of episodes on the 1gb stick.

What program can I use to convert the AVI files? I tried VLC software from VLAN but didn't know how to do it. Any suggestions?

MARA

m-five

11,446 posts

291 months

Thursday 21st April 2005
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I use Quicktime, Cleaner, ffmpeg on the Mac - Quicktime is the easiest, if you have the right codec installed!

tricky69

Original Poster:

1,696 posts

249 months

Monday 25th April 2005
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maranellouk said:
Ok, I need help now. That infernal GP3 software that changes files straight to the PSP keeps giving me error reports when I try to convert an AVI file. That includes all the Brunters Runs!

I have downloaded about 30 Simpsons episodes and have managed to compress the 60-70gb files to 5-7mb. So I can fit a ton of episodes on the 1gb stick.

What program can I use to convert the AVI files? I tried VLC software from VLAN but didn't know how to do it. Any suggestions?

MARA


Where did you download the episodes from and how did you compress the file to sucha small size ??

murph7355

38,936 posts

263 months

Monday 25th April 2005
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On the former, there's a torrent site on the web. Do a Google for simpsons torrent and you're likely to find it.

On the latter, I have no idea! I managed about 55Mb.

Animation can be compressed a bit more than normal video with lower bit rates, but to get a 10th of the size, I'd expect bit rates of less than 50, which I would have thought would look cack.

Having said that, when I first started trying to convert stuff before Christmas, I had a few trials where a small AVI file would balloon in size when done for the PSP. Never did figure it out...works reliably now though.

maranellouk

2,066 posts

270 months

Wednesday 27th April 2005
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I have no idea. I just put the file in the 3GP converter and it came out tiny. Unlike the Paris Hilton Video

Quality is not perfect but is is very decent.

I got the Simpsons episodes from Limewire.

tricky69

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1,696 posts

249 months

Tuesday 3rd May 2005
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What about making a PSP multi region so it can read all UMD movie disks.... Is this possible ?

murph7355

38,936 posts

263 months

Tuesday 3rd May 2005
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Don't think so yet, but can't imagine why anyone would want to buy UMD movie discs...