Release: VITA2PC – Stream from your PSVITA to your PC
Remember 5 days ago when we complained the PS Vita had no “video out” functionality? Well, that was 5 days ago, so it’s old. Vita developer Rinnegatamante released VITA2PC yesterday, a tool that lets you do just that, and better than the existing Rincheat solution.
This first release is a bit experimental, and in particular sounds streaming seems to be a bit hit and miss. The developer says he will improve things with next releases.
What Vita2PC lets you do, and what it does not
Vita2PC is a plugin that will let you stream specific PS Vita games from your PS Vita to your PC Screen, through your local Wifi network. The plugin offers two modes, synchronous and asynchronous, which let you choose between accuracy (no frame drops) and speed (frame drops).
Vita2PC currently does not let you stream a full vita session (e.g. including the live area), but only once inside a game. Also, not all games are compatible at the moment, and in some cases the streaming quality might be choppy. The developer provides a compatibility list here.
What’s the difference between Vita2PC and the Rincheat stream option?
The main difference with the screen streaming option from Rincheat (also by Rinnegatamante) is that you also get audio, while Rincheat was only streaming the video content to your PC. But the Developer also shared the following details:
This plugin can be considered as a standalone improved version of rinCheat stream (infact the first prototype name was SA_ScreenStream (Standalone ScreenStream).
It has several improvements if compared to rinCheat:
- A huge improvement in terms of how many games are supported. Basically rinCheat supported only a few portion of Vita games (45-50% probably). This plugin supports near the 95% of Vita games in theory.
- Added Downscaler for games running at 960×544. Output will be at 480×272 (PSP resolution). This will drastically improve framerate, allowing even games without hardware acceleration to work fine.
- Better hardware acceleration encoder code: now less VRAM is required to start an hw accelerated encoder. That means game that on rinCheat didn’t have hw acceleration could have this feature now. (Eg. Digimon CyberSleuth)
- Added audio streaming support
- Possibility to start synchronous video streaming with/without frameskip
- Clocks are set at their maximum speed and won’t be lowerable from the app or other plugins. rinCheat didn’t have this feature.
- Minor bugfixes and improvements (Eg. Now if you change the encoder quality during streaming, it will be really changed differently to rinCheat were you had to restart the game and the stream).
Download and run Vita2PC
You can Download Vita2PC from vitadb here.
How to use (from the dev)
Source: rinnegatamante on /talk
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Amazing to see how homebrew devs are making the Vita a better device.
Proof that Sony were being total c*nts.
Great news. Hopefully it has continued support. Having a mountain of software means a mountain of maintenence. Many of us have mentioned issues regarding this developers other wonderful contributions without reply.
Whoever asked if this was possible a couple of days ago, this is your answer. 😛
that was me, i guess.
heck yeah, the successor to remote joy lite!
Work fine, tnks
Caption of the photo says “pc2vita” instead of “vita2pc”
Great news, can´t wait to stream that Puyo Puyo Tetris (plus a bunch of games obviously) and record gameplays.
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Now we’re serious… The Vita starts to be what it should’ve been from the very beginning. And not thanks to that crappy brand owner (Screw U Sunny! -SUS!-). 😛
Thanks to everyone developing plugins, homebrew and apps for the Vita/3DS, they are the ones responsible for our happiness playing with our handhelds.
Now, I would like to ask if this could be possible using a USB connection by transferring data directly to a program on our PC’s… Maybe some day.
Perfect. Pc-link + Vita2Pc sounds awesome
make it possible to stream via lan cable for pstv and usb for vita 🙂
Wololo ive got a peculiar problem with my vita with henkaka enso..my settings do not show the enso settings anymore..and system information shows version 3.65..i can open vitashell and run homebrew as well as visit ps store without activation.
Reboot using L and then reinstall Enso. Had the same problem as you
Which game is shown on the picture with the guy and girl? Want to check out other games i can get for the vita now that homebrew is improving it :p
Tokyo Xanadu
Will some one give me a little tutorial of where to put that code and where to get title I’d it asks for in development comments I not really installed any plugs before so I guide here would be great if anyone willing to help me thank you 🙂
i have put it under *ALL and now after rboot i have black screen ! I start my vita and hold L but this not help me
This is great, this could also technically speaking be used for the extended functionality of to out via either a strong pc, or laptop, using a hdmi cable for video out on the computer end…
That’d be awesome, 🙂
*tv
Great (did not read all comments) Please let us use USB cable for even better stability in the future. 😀
That door looks like a Vag LoL 😀
Does there come a psvitatv2pc?
Doesn’t work with games that turn of the network features!!
This was what I was dreaming of before I bought the Tv model. Now I just don’t really need it anymore. It’s still righteous though, maybe I’ll break my original vita out of storage and do some multiplayer madness.
Why would somebody make this? Its kinda pointless sense you can do the same thing with ps vita tv? Vita tv is cheap.
Can I use it with homebrew? Example: Retroarch