Here's another homebrew shell program for the PlayStation Portable brought to us by developer mov. Entitled "Flux - Beta 1", it packs a lot of standard features found in similar applications and features a very clean cut look for an initial release. For more details regarding this neat app, check out our full article after the jump.

Download: Flux - Beta 1
Visit: QJ.NET's PSP Development forum

The last release for PSP homebrew coder lefbe's Unlimited Video for PSP featured a beefier list of CPUs detected. Well, the dev has just released version 1.5.2 and you can certainly expect more changes and additions on this release of the converter. Check out the full article for more info.

Download: Unlimited Video for PSP v1.5.2

Senior product manager for Sony's PSP John Koller announced SCEA has decided to distribute, market, and sell targeted top content from other studios and content providers. The first move in this direction if the launch of new MTV UMDs this week.

Want to know more about this? Check out the full article for all the titles, pricing, and expected launch of the UMDs.

Winnydows has released a new version of XviD4PSP, the popular video converter for the Sony PlayStation Portable handheld gaming console. XviD4PSP v5.052 beta includes additional encoding formats, more lossless profiles and AVI Hardware and AVI Hardware HD formats. It also lets users create mono and 5.1 files. XviD4PSP v5.025 beta is available in two versions: lite and full. Check out the changelog and the downloads at the full article.

PSP homebrew developer lefbe has just announced the release of a media application we imagine videophiles in the community will take a shine to.

This new app is dubbed Unlimited Video For PsP v1.3, and is a Windows-based video encoder capable of encoding the following video resolutions: 368x208 (Fm 2.0+), 480x272 fw (3.03 OE-B and above), and 720x480 (Firmware 3.30 and above). As for the application's changelog:

• Add : More information on the form.
• Add : Image 3.30 support for ImageToPsP
• Fix : Problem with "Configuration.xml".
• Fix : Encoding time for 3.30 firmware is more quicker. for Simnle Core, and Dual Core
• Addition of partners:
• PsPGen
• Ultimate
• GX-MOD
• Dapics
• Dark~AleX
  

The author further indicates that Video Unlimited will offer users several choices of bit rates, and will work on wmv, avi, mpg, MPEG, mp4, vob, 3gp, 3g2, mkv, and mov video files formats. 

Download: Video Unlimited For PsP v1.3

  

Curieux36 released Personal Media Manager v2.90 for the general public, and you'll be surprised to know of the changes he's implemented on this new version. In addition to rewriting the interface, there's now support for newer firmwares, including the 3.10 OEs by Dark_Alex.

Since the changelog is pretty extensive compared to 2.87, we'll just let you bask in the awesomeness for now. Here's the changelog:

General:

• Complete Re writing of the interface of reception
• The parameter setting of the path of homebrews is replaced by the path of the PSX ISO
• Add support of the Sony firmware 3.10 and 3.11
• Add support of the DarkAlex firmware 3.10OE

Manage PSX ISO :

• Correct the crash during the encoding of some ISO (freeze on recording EBOOT.PBP)
• Correct the crash of the copy when the direct copy is not checked
• Correct many bug
• Complete manage of PSX ISO File

Manage Homebrews :

• Correct the bug of display Homebrews when ISO PSX is present on the PSP
• Correct the bug of display of the homebrews pictures
• Optimize the time of load

Manage movies :

• Correct bug in the display of the name of videos on SONY firmware 3.x
• Support of videos YouTube in the format FLV
• Support of videos in the format MKV
• Correction bug on video encoding in the format MOV
• Optimize the time of encoding

Download: [Personal Media Manager v2.90]

Winnydows has just informed us that he has released an update to his renowned homebrew app, Xvid4PSP, that makes video conversion for your PSP a lot easier. And if you thought the changes in the 4.049 version were massive, you should take a look at this version's changelog.

Donning loads of fixes and minor tweaks in the UI, it looks like this app really has nowhere to go but up the list of hottest media apps for the PSP. For first-timers, you should know that XviD4PSP has the following minimal system requirements: Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 + Microsoft Framework 3.0, DirectX 9.0c december (only for 3D GPU).

Changelog:

• Fixed aspect calculation.
• Ffdshow now installed with selected language.
• Ffdshow icons removed from tray by default.
• Add new SBC prest - Ghost Buster. Help remove red ghosting on PSP.
• Removed format MP4 PSP (MP4 PSP 2.80 and MP4 PSP 480 full replace it).
• Removed Fix gray flicks option.
• For AVI format audio now encode in video path - doesn`t need muxing.
• For AVI format now possible create files with PCM sound.
• Added two new formats - AVI DV PAL and AVI DV NTSC. DV files created progressive (no interlacement = HQ)!
• Removed encoding VirtualDub - mencoder full replace it.
• For AVI format added two new LossLess (без потерь) codecs - FFV1 and FFVHuff.
• From framerate list removed non-standart framerates (15.000). All non-standart inut files will be converted to near framerate. This fix sync on some RM and MOV files.
• Removed Engine DropDown.
• Removed PMP 2.01 - PMP AVC much better in all cases.
• Removed Base64 encoder-decoder tool.
• Removed VirtualDubMod.
• Default aspect correction now - Black.
• Mencoder updated to r22178.
• Finished CLI for x264.
• Reorganzed tabs and fixed small bugs
  
• Now always used mencoder MT.

Download: [XviD4PSP 4.102]

Mov sure is one of the fastest-working homebrew coders that we feature here in QJ. Within three days after releasing v0.2 of his xautob - 2.71 SE-C Autoboot PRX, he was able to release v0.3 which was bumped up to include support for loading UMD games. Now, the app is on its fourth version.

If this is your first time to encounter this homebrew app, here's how mov describes his work: "xautob is a configurable plugin for autostarting 1.5/2.71 eboots & UMD games (disc/iso/cso), when starting up the PSP or exiting another game, under firmware 2.71se (tested only under Se-C)"

Got it? Good. So anyway, there's only one major change for this version and that's the added support for loading ISOs/CSOs (see example config). And mov says that he knows this is just a pretty minor update (he hasn't had much time to work on this recently) but he decided to share it with the rest of the homebrew community as well. To download, you know what to do, just click on the link below and you're good to go.

Download: [xautob - 2.71SEC Autoboot PRX v0.4]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]

Don't you just love it when things get fixed at once? Like this one right here. It's only been three days past since we posted the updated version for xautob. - 2.71 SEC Autoboot PRX and we now have its version 0.3.

Yup, mov over at our forums sure has been busy fixing whatever bugs may have been existing in v0.2. Well, you can say bye-bye to them now as he's done some general cleaning of the application.

The changes for this version include the elimination of that particular problem, which was causing the last config entry to be ignored when not newline-terminated. That is now fixed. Also, he's added support for loading UMD games. You can check out the sample config in the file, which you can download right here.

So there. Without further ado, we present to you mov's xautob - 2.71sec Autoboot PRX v0.3.

Download: [xautob - 2.71sec Autoboot PRX v0.3]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]

We'll quote fellow writer Jex H. on this one: "And so the SE-C mania continues." Over at our forums, mov just released xautob, an autoboot PRX for Dark_Alex's 2.71 SE-C. v0.2 fixes a small bug from the prior version that led to 2.71 applications being loaded under 1.50, mov explains.

Let the Readme explain this homebrew best:

This is a plugin for autostarting eboots under firmware 2.71se (tested only under se-C)

Features:

• cheesy fix allowing cpu speed changes (amongst other things?) for autostarted iR Shell 3.0 under 2.71 kernel (not sure if the problem affects apps besides iR Shell haven't checked - but the workaround is enabled for all 2.71 apps anyway).
  
• support for associating the following buttons with apps: triangle, circle, cross, square, left/right triggers, up, down, left, right, select, start, home, hold & the wlan switch state (on/off).
  
• config file support (psp/system/xautob.cfg); format: `button=ms0:/path/to/eboot'. includes basic comment support (lines prefixed with #), kernel specification, pretty loose button/kernel reading (ltrigger is the same as LtRiGgEr is the same as ltrig, 150 cross = cross_150, etc.). blank or invalid path entries in the config are interpreted as "load the XMB"; if multiple entries for the same button are found the last one is used.
  

example config:

# wlan switch on? start irshell under kernel 2.71..

wlanon=ms0:/psp/game271/irshell271/eboot.pbp

# wlan switch off? start irshell under kernel 1.5..

wlanoff_150=ms0:/psp/game150/irshell150/eboot.pbp

# load xmb

ltrig=

Instructions for installation are also at the Readme file.

Download: [xautob - 2.71 SEC Autoboot PRX v0.2]
Discuss: [Forum Release Thread]