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Perl RSS server for the Sony PSP

I created this little perl program that creates an RSS feed from a set of video files (.mp4). This is useful to wirelessly transfer files to the PSP. The files will be saved in the VIDEO folder of the PSP.
You’ll need to install MP4::Info and HTTP::Daemon from CPAN first.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
# this small program starts [...]

MP4::Info fixed

Jonathan Harris has just released a new version of MP4::Info adding support for Sony PSP title and encoder.
Movie title and the encoder used are now accessible under $tag->{NAM} and $tag->{TOO}

use MP4::Info;
my $file = ‘MAQ12331.MP4′;
 
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Support for Sony PSP format in MP4::Info

Today I opened a new feature request (http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25178) on MP4::Info perl module to include my patch to read the title in a Sony PSP files. Read this post to know more about the way title is encoded in PSP Mp4 files. With the following patch mp4infopatch.txt (applied to Info.pm) you can read the [...]

Example of title encoded in a Sony PSP MP4 file

Here I included an example of a custom uuid USMT->MTDT block in a Sony PSP MP4 file

06A55450 75 75 69 64 55 53 4D 54 21 D2 4F CE BB 88 69 5C uuidUSMT!.O…i\
06A55460 FA C9 C7 40 00 00 00 90 4D 54 44 [...]

Sony PSP MP4 filenames

If you’re new to the PSP you must remember when copying files video files (created with 3GP converter or PSP Video 9) to your PSP that M4Vxxxxx.MP4 files go to the MP_ROOT/100MNV01 dir of the Memory Stick and the MAQxxxxx.MP4 files go to MP_ROOT/101ANV01 dir.
M4Vxxxxx files are conventional MPEG-4 files and MAQxxxxx are MPEG-4 [...]