Watch an UMD (PSP Movie Disc) on a Mac???

[bendermac]

i have here a umd image of a movie and i like to check out the quality. unfourtnatly i don't have a psp, nor do i know someone with one. so my question is: is there a way to watch that movie on my mac?

[AntnyMD]

Since UMD has no consumer-recordable device available, a UMD movie image would have to have been copied onto a large Memory Stick Pro DUO (which, btw, I have not yet received mine, damnit) ... so any movie image you have acquired was done so through piracy ... and Piracy Is A Bad Thing.

[bendermac]

... so any movie image you have acquired was done so through piracy ... and Piracy Is A Bad Thing.

it's a copy from a friend who has the original disc. i got a copy just for testing. i also have the movie as a legit dvd and i just see it as alternative medium. besides, i don't wanna keep that umd image. i just wanna take a closer look at it.

so please don't lecture me about piracy as i have bought many dvds will do so in the future

[AntnyMD]

Just because your piracy is pedestrian doesnt make it less so.

[thoughton]

Since UMD has no consumer-recordable device available, a UMD movie image would have to have been copied onto a large Memory Stick Pro DUO (which, btw, I have not yet received mine, damnit) ... so any movie image you have acquired was done so through piracy ... and Piracy Is A Bad Thing.

WTF are you talking about Ant? How is copying a UMD onto a memorystick any different from copying a DVD onto your harddrive?

(Leaving aside the point that BenderMac doesn't OWN this UMD, which we didn't know at the time you made this post).

[AntnyMD]

It isnt any different--except if you own the UMD. A reasonable person could infer bendermac didnt own the UMD because (a) he doesnt own a PSP, and (b) he doesnt know anyone with a PSP. Without access to a PSP, how do you think bendermac obtained the UMD image? I'd like to know.

[RottenFoxBreath]

with the right software,anyone can dump games/movies from there psp onto memory sticks,-ive done it to a few of mine-i hate using discs(personally i think sony have f*cked up using an optical media-low battery life,crappy lasers,and mechanisms)or if there really are a bad bad boy,downloading it would seem to be the only other way...

[bendermac]

... how do you think bendermac obtained the UMD image? I'd like to know.

read what i wrote a few days ago

it's a copy from a friend who has the original disc. i got a copy just for testing.

this is no pirating. it's just giving a friend a copy to watch and then delete. why would i want to keep that thing? i have the dvd, which has a higher res, more extras, ect. and i can it watch on my tv.

[AntnyMD]

"I'd like to know" was rhetorical and meant for thoughton. Giving a friend a copy of a movie is piracy.

[cnelson87]

IMO, it seems to me the intent was more of a "loan to a friend for educational purposes" rather than a "let's stick to the man and pirate this movie" kind of thing. I say let it slide. For educational purposes, I too would like to know about PSP UMD quality and whether it can be played on Mac.

[AntnyMD]

can it be played on a mac? highly likely no (see all of bendermac's posts). educational purposes? we have learned it isnt easy, and pedestrian piracy. education done. letting it slide? sure. umd quality? well, its mpeg4 h.264 video encoded at the highest resolution possible for the psp screen. the two movies i own on umd look awesome on that screen. i decided though that two movies are enough since i have found this device to be a much better streaming internet radio device .. i.e., link up a bunch of rss feeds into the latest firmware update and it streams your podcasts! sony also appears to be positioning the psp as a download device for sony connect music store .. the latest firmware enables wma playback.

[noconclusion]

Yeah, no two ways about it. Whether you are trying to learn about UMD or not it's illegal. Anyways... you are always asking for issues if you say you dont have a psp and dont know anyone with one and then you say you got it from a friend... And it doesn't matter if you own the DVD or not it's a UMD!

Why not just ask and see if you can get the answers you're looking for? if it's just info you're after...

The footage on UMD discs is full-res (720x480) NTSC H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile Level3. It'll play full screen if UMD players are ever released or PSP2 has video out! But Sony keep saying that this isn't planned. If you did somehow manage to demux the footage you'd need to transcode it before you'd be able to play it on a Duo as the supported specs are different.

The quality will be good! but unless you have an analyzer that can give you a bunch of info on it you won't learn too much...

UMD authoring is nothing like DVD authoring, it's all XML/javascript like coding and you need a render farm to get the encode times down...

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[dcsos]

So essentially what you're saying is a UMD s a smaller DVD lacking encryption of any kind?

This seems faulty..isn't some form of copy protection on the programme? Or are they merely relying on one's inability TO MOUNT the UMD volume on the PC (MAC)

[noconclusion]

Na I never said that if you're refering to what I said. I never meant to imply that and they are encrypeted for sure. It's based on AES and each disc has a unique ID so they can track things...

Not a smaller DVD. Its very different (from an authoring standpoint) to DVD even though seems similar!

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