Firmware 3.30 now available on Network Update

by Andrew Yoon { Mar 28th 2007 at 12:25AM }

What big Microsoft news? Sony sneakily snuck out a new firmware upgrade for PSP: the first in almost two months. Here's the list of the improvements for this firmware revision:

Support for displaying thumbnails for items has been added under [RSS Channel].
Support for PLAYSTATION Network titles has been expanded.
The size of videos that can be played under [Video] has been increased.
Support for displaying thumbnails for content saved in the "VIDEO" folder of a Memory Stick has been added under [Video].

Update 2: For those without wi-fi access, the update can be downloaded here. Save it on your PSP under this directory: PSP/GAME/UPDATE. IGN is reporting that the video profiles have expanded to include 720x480 (DVD), 352x480, and 480x272 (native PSP) resolutions. However, it does not appear as though they've been successful in converting video files either. Stay tuned for more updates.

[Thanks, Reuben!]

Tags: 3.3, 3.30, firmware, network update, NetworkUpdate, psp, video

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

brgers @ Mar 28th 2007 12:30AM

Kwel, thnkx for the refernce, also i hope that those 2 games come out soon, wipeout/suduko. Also hopefully that ol socom demo

Stef Geiger @ Mar 28th 2007 12:50AM

....WHAT? This is HUGE news if it's true. I'm testing right now. I bet it's not as good as it seems...

Colin @ Mar 28th 2007 12:52AM

Stef...get back to us...this is another good news story for the PSP.

NINTEN @ Mar 28th 2007 12:53AM

Where do I find this Update at???

Stef Geiger @ Mar 28th 2007 1:09AM

Nope, can't get it to work for the life of me. Maybe there are some other weird things I need to do. I'm using mpegStremclip, which is a great OS X program to make 480x272 videos, and no matter how I name them and where I put them, they just show up as corrupt.

Stef Geiger @ Mar 28th 2007 1:24AM

No... it doesn't work. I think all they've done is allow larger files, as in, "longer movies"... Possibly because they're about to launch a huge online movie store like XBL/iTunes?

SirPasta117 @ Mar 28th 2007 2:00AM

lol Where did the FW 3.11-3.29 go?

Hashbrown_Hunter @ Mar 28th 2007 2:03AM

Kind of a useless firmware update huh? Well the thumbnail support for items under an RSS feed would be kind of nice. Besides that I see no reason why Sony launched this.

luke97 @ Mar 28th 2007 5:39AM

If it's longer videos, why do they need to put it? Normally, the max length is around 6 hours 30 min.

RoDrAs @ Mar 28th 2007 6:08AM

Now let's wait for a decrypter and a new OE...

Apostolov @ Mar 28th 2007 6:49AM

Lol... on the official web site is still 3.11 the lastest update... there is no 3.30 from where did you get this? i will wait untill the official web site allows the download for the new one..

Jason @ Mar 28th 2007 6:58AM

@ Apostolov

Sony usually doesn't put up information about their updates on their site until a few hours or a day has gone by. It seems their software engineers are faster than their HTML guys. I can tell you though that the update is real as I have connected via my Wifi and I am installing it right now.

Tom @ Mar 28th 2007 7:18AM

Oh yes, av-Watch says it can: "In addition, it expands also the animated picture specification which can be played back. With Main Profile of MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, it reached the point where it can play back also the animated picture of the 720×480/352×480/480×272 dot."

( http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20070328/sce.htm / translated via babelfish )

ollie @ Mar 28th 2007 7:28AM

Finnly, another update, haven't had any downloads for ages, and they have listened and expaned the video size YAY! and anyone know why the yourpsp store doesn't work, its says on my PC that there is a server error or something? anyone help?

spir @ Mar 28th 2007 7:57AM

It takes some time before the official site has it (a week or two like the other updates).
But again, nothing much in this update.

Shawn Ricci @ Mar 28th 2007 9:17AM

If you are looking for a good program to do videos for your PSP/PS3, you can't beat MediaFork. With more options than you can shake a stick at and a price that cannot be beaten (free), it should be on every PSP/PS3 owners HDD, both OSX and Windows. Cheers! Oops, need to give a link hee hee...

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

Bored @ Mar 28th 2007 9:20AM

The added resolutions hint at a Remote Play upgrade. Maybe the PSP will finally be able to playback DVDs inserted in the PS3. As for native resolution, expect only videos you'll purchase in the PSN to play (such is life in the days of DRM)...

Ryan @ Mar 28th 2007 11:30AM

For video conversion: xvid4psp by winnydows. Do yourself a favour and check out this free program. Also has good PS3 presets and custom settings such as "ghostbuster" which helps deal with ghosting on PSP. Good program, I use it all the time with XP, no problems.

farfisa @ Mar 28th 2007 11:39AM

@Stef: I use OS X and didn't have any luck with Streamclip either (though it's a great program for converting video files otherwise). I found this one that was made to create 480 x 272 files for use with for the open firmware hack (and it works for me on OE3.03C), but it could work with the new official firmware too:
http://dl.qj.net/PSP-Video-Converter-for-Mac-OS-X-General-Apps-PSP-Homebrew-Applications/pg/12/fid/12465/catid/151
It's an ffmpeg front-end that only converts to 480 x 272.
Once I got it working on my PSP, I actually had to tell it to go full screen, but that was the only hitch.

Stef Geiger @ Mar 28th 2007 12:01PM

Yeah, looks like the official word is that the videos have to be encoded in with AVC main profile, which, to the best of my knowledge, requires some VERY expensive licensing.

James @ Mar 28th 2007 12:49PM

Hah! I had totally forgotten that full-res video playback was a hack. I've been running OE for so long now, I thought that was one of the 3.0X features that got rolled in. Man, yet again the hackers are ahead of the manufacturer on this one...

Sam K @ Mar 28th 2007 1:04PM

Playing videos at full resolution does work. Someone posted a couple of sample videos on another forum (here's one of them: http://klemen.verdnik.googlepages.com/Me_in_Vienna.mp4 ), and they work great.

Stef Geiger @ Mar 28th 2007 1:16PM

...Yeah.... and that's an AVC encoded with the "main" profile. Either that's a commercial video, or the person who made it shelled out some serious cash.

Johnny Lasley @ Mar 28th 2007 6:40PM

Still not much of an update. I want my Playstation Store now.

navsimpson @ Mar 28th 2007 7:43PM

It'd be nice to get some official confirmation of *why* these video upgrades were made. I can't help but feel it's to get things ready for a movie download service.

Still, I gotta' wonder - wouldn't a full-length AVC at 720x480 be like a gig and a half? Or is it bitrate that will affect size more?