So K&I are expecting a little one soon (yeah very soon like in 5 weeks OH MY GOD!). Anyways, as geeky as I am, I have been looking into these baby monitors that let you stream video/audio to a little device. Well I have seen them and quality sucks. And they cost something like $200 minimum if you want video. So I have decided to look around for some cheaper solutions.

The first thing that came to mind was to buy a new IP camera like this one or this one. If it works like advertised, I could put it in the baby’s room and attach to the stream from XBMC and see the little bugger on TV or on my laptop (or even from work!).

Then I looked at the capabilities. MPEG-4. Now what device plays MPEG-4 content and is small enough to be carried? THE PSP of course! So I have been poking around today and guess what, I got it working!

I pulled my little PC webcam and through a set of (complicated) steps was able to stream the live feed to the PSP.

Here are the instructions:

1/ Download logisphere here. It’s a nice freeware that can deliver a live stream of your webcam. And unlike Windows Media Encoder, it does work. Run it, it should send a stream @ http://localhost:8090/

2/ Download VLC 0.8.5 and follow these instructions. VLC will attach to logisphere, transcode it to a PSP compatible format and retransmit on port 1234.

3/ Download PMP VLC Player 0.0.8 here and follow instructions. I tried on a v1.5 PSP. Modify pmp.ini to set the server (VLC) IP & port.

4/ Attach to live stream. Voila!

Check out the video here of myself going silly.