Guide: Encoding Videos for the Sony Mylo

Tired of choppy video playback on your new Sony Mylo? We were too, learn how to encode videos for the Sony Mylo using free software, PSP Video9.

• Get PSPvideo9
• Create Mylo Profile, in Setup, left side navigation menu, under Profiles Tab.

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1. Click “New Profile” in the top right.
2. In the Profile Name blank, type your preferred profile name, in my example I used Mylo-High, which indicates these are the high quality settings.
3. Now change your Video and Audio settings to match exactly what you see on the example picture.
4. Hit apply to save the new profile.

Note: If you wish to make a Mylo-Low quality settings, set bitrate to 384 kbps under Video Settings. I would recommending making 2 profile settings one for High and Low, you can do this later.

Adjust Settings Tab

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1. Change “One-Click Profile:” to the new profile you just made, in my example it was Mylo-High.
2. “Out-put Videos to:” This blank can be changed to anything you wish, choose a folder that is easy for you to find, for example, you could assign this to a desktop folder for easy access.
3. “PSP Drive” You need to set the folder to X:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01 Where X stands for the Drive letter of your Sony Mylo’s internal memory or memory stick pro duo. To find the Sony Mylo’s internal memory drive, connect your Sony Mylo to your PC, go to Start—->My Computer—->Removable Disk. The folder setup should look similar to the picture below, in the top left you can find the drive name and type that into your “PSP Drive” blank, so in my example mine would read F:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01.
4. Make sure the rest of the settings match up to the example picture. (don’t change Video Number leave this at default)
5. It’s very important that “Default Copy Folder:” is set to SP and not AVC.
6. Hit Save.

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Convert the Video (press Convert very left side in the Navigation menu)

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1. Press “One-Click Transcode”, this button will automatically use the profile you set to default which in my example was Mylo-High. You can also use Transcode New Video and search for your profile in “Quality Profile” blank.
2. Wait and get a drink, run around the block, to avoid computer geek booty (which is the result of hours upon hours of sitting in the same chair, the result? Pancake booty.)
3. Come back after a nice run to find your video has completed encoding.

Note: Try not to have too many other applications running during the video conversion, CPU intensive applications could cause errors in the video encoding.

Transfer Videos to Sony Mylo (Copy left side Navigation menu)

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1. It’ll ask you to please connect your PSP, just hit ok and move on.
2. At the top where it shows the folder type, make sure it does not say AVC, both folders should be set to SP.
3. Connect your Sony Mylo to your PC, if it isn’t already.
4. The video you encoded should show up in the left box, select it, then click “Copy Video to PSP”.
5. You will be prompted with a question, hit “Yes” to create the folder, as seen below in the image.
6. The file will transfer over, once complete, unplug your Sony Mylo and try playing the video.

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If there is any questions or problems, leave me a comment and I’ll do my best to help. If you have any tips you’d like to share I’d love to hear them as well.

Additional information regarding the mylo can be found at MyloForums.net

Update: I found an excellent guide for encoding Wide-Screen videos, so now you can enjoy movies like they were meant to be viewed with no stretching, Wide-Screen Encoding Guide. Thanks Gjuny!