PSPcasting on Your Mac and How to Make your Own PSPcasts

Barb over at Engadget has posted a detailed HOW TO on tapping into the PSPcasting phenomenon via a Mac, using ANT, PSPware, and a Sony PSP with a decent sized Memory Stick Duo card (I have a 256MB card in mine).  Of course, you can substitute iPSP or ffmpegX (and a little manual dragging of files) to do the work of PSPware. In my experience, iPSP handles the conversion of difficult files a bit better than PSPware.

You may also want to grab iPSP Movie Loader from the makers of iPSP.  This free little program works so that if you click a PSPMovie Link on a website while your PSP is connected, the file will download and automatically be transferred to your PSP.  Better yet, if you want to start your own PSPcasts, you can use the PSP Movie Loader File Maker to create a PSP Movie Loader File for linking to any PSP-capable MPEG4 movie on a webpage.

As far as methods for recording the video for your PSPcasts direct to MPEG4, I recommend grabbing either an iSight / similar webcam and use BTV / BTV Pro to capture directly to MPEG4, or recording with your DV camcorder, splice and dice the video in iMovie, and export to Quicktime and let iPSP / PSPware / ffmpegX do the compression to the necessary format. If you’d rather not spend the money on BTV / BTV Pro, you could always use Quicktime Broadcaster, which is free, albeit a bit on the buggy side.