MediaImporter – Video importer for the PSVita
The PSVita has yet another similarity when it comes to absurd software lockdowns with iOS. Like iOS, importing videos (and music) into the stock music or video application is a pain and a half since it requires you to use iTunes. That means you need a computer to import a video/music file and the Vita has a similar system but it’s with QCMA. MediaImporter makes life easier.
What’s MediaImporter?
The main use of this utility is to import videos you copy over to your Vita without needing a computer. This means you can copy video files via FTP or via USB and not require QCMA to import them. While QCMA isn’t as restrictive and painful as iTunes, it’s still relatively annoying to make every pass through it in order to copy a media file… With this utility, all you need to do the following:
- Install it (duh)
- Copy the mp4 files to ux0:/video
- Run the homebrew and update the video database
- Run the Videos application and profit!
This being said, the Vita’s stock video app isn’t the best but it’s good enough to render your favourite show unless it’s in some obscure format. The developer ‘cnsldv’ of /talk forums said that more features may be implemented and I seriously hope they get implemented as the Vita will become more useful. Opening the VitaShell to listen to an mp3, unless you have a computer near, is a tad inconvenient in my opinion. Some possible new features are the ability to import photos and videos into the camera app and music into the music app.
How do I get it?
As always, you need to install it via grabbing the VPK which can be found below. As this is a homebrew, it’s recommend you get it from a trusted source as it uses other directories than ux0:/data so it’s unsafe homebrew. After getting it, it’s recommended you re-read the instructions in the forum thread below. This may make the PSTV a relatively useful video watching device with a big external HDD.
Download and release thread: https://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?p=418293
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Nice. I’ve been looking forward to something like this for awhile? Thanx.
Thank you for the article, Wololo. Looking forward to future updates.
Way to put that lovely PS Vita screen to good use, nice!
Aurora, not Wololo 😉
Fire Emblem Echoes DLC is more expensive than the game itself, that dlc better come with a condm since nintendo is going to f the customer real good these days.
What?
Do you just write random comments?
Thank you for the article, Joel16. Looking forward to future updates.
The way Sony stupidly handles multimedia with their devices is explicitly why I left their official ecosystem and after the Vita, I am 100% done with Sony because of their continued stupidity. So, I’m quite happy to see this. Shame Sony chose not to make more money by providing common sense 21st century multimedia solutions with their devices.
In the 21st century, Apple is the largest electronics company in the world and all of their devices do not have any other transfer solutions.
So the grand majority of the world population do not sure your OCD.
I know that you’re just trolling, but Apple’s mobile market share is barely something like 15% and android holds 80%+
IPhone/Pad aren’t really anything else than expensive toys and this is their main selling point, not functionality. (Well… and encryption if you are terrorist or pedophile I guess?)
On the topic:
I always get happy when I see that people are still supporting vita 🙂 However “unless it’s in some obscure format”… Vita supports pretty much support only H.264 Base/Main/High Profile 4:2:0 up to 3.1 (and even 3.1 is arguable, since it lags after 15Mbps, let aside 17.5Mbps) and only in mp4 container with audio below 256kbps (hint: music takes 300-450).
Combine it with the cancerous chroma up-scaling, lack of proper dithering and it’s pretty much useless for videos in 2017.
Market share means jack all. That Android 80% of marketshare isn’t even enough to beat the profits generated that 15% you quote. And then there’s higher revenue per device generated from apps and content. Suffice to say Android only enjoys the higher marketshare simply because they are priced cheaply enough for most people in the world to afford, but do not confuse their desire to buy Apple if given a free choice.
Wasn’t this already possible with VitaShell?
I’m a bit confused right now..
I’ve allways imported media to the database with VitaShell, so were is the use in this?
* VitaShell doesn’t import videos only music/pics (at least as far as I can see)
* importing music in VitaShell makes a copy and takes ages, MediaImporter imports >10 MP3s a second
* making stuff is fun and it’s useful to me
Don’t worry, I won’t force you to use it
Don’t worry, i didn’t attacked you..
No need to defend yourself..
The article was written like nothing from it was ever possible, so I asked.
* I’ve never tried with videos, therefore i didn’t know that
*I didn’t have any problem that it “takes ages” , only 1 hour + music needed some time, but still not too long, and far from “ages”
* I know. Like I said, I didn’t attack you, just wondered about how this article is written
Why doensn’t anyone release their application with a -hashfile code?
would immediately solve the credibility issues,
Be awesome if VLC was ported to vita! ;)p
Yeah this app not happy with it i installed it ftp a safe video which i scanned personally and updated database opened up video app and three times my vita froze and crashed.