Vita:UDCD Video Streaming Plugin

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Stream Vita screen over USB cable, Vita appears as a USB class camera and is accessible from VLC and OBS, additionally any device that supports the USB Video class (There are apps on Android, but at this time nothing on IOS)

GitHub Project

This is a kernel plugin that lets you stream your PSVita screen to your computer via USB.

How does it work?

The plugin uses the SceUdcd module of the PSVita OS to setup the necessary USB descriptors to simulate and behave as an USB Video Class device (like a webcam or an USB video capture card).

The hardware color space converter of the PSVita's SoC is used to perform the conversion to the destination pixel format; then the USB controller directly performs a DMA transfer from the physical address of the resulting converted framebuffer, and therefore, saving CPU usage and power consumption.

Supported formats and resolutions

  • 960x544 @ 30 FPS and (less than) 60 FPS
  • 896x504 @ 30 FPS and (almost) 60 FPS
  • 864x488 @ 30 FPS and 60 FPS
  • 480x272 @ 30 FPS and 60 FPS
  • 1280x720 @ 30 FPS

Download and installation

Download:

Compilation

  • vitasdk is needed.

Installation:

  1. Copy udcd_uvc.skprx to your PSVita
  2. Add udcd_uvc.skprx to taiHEN's config (ur0:/tai/config.txt or ux0:/tai/config.txt):
*KERNEL
ur0:tai/udcd_uvc.skprx
  1. Reboot your PSVita.

Troubleshooting

If the video looks glitched, try to change the video player configuration to use the NV12 format or switch to another player (like PotPlayer or OBS). If the colors look wrong, set color range to full and color space to BT.601 (Rec. 601).

If you use Windows 10 you might have to change the Camera access permissions on the Privacy Settings.

On Linux I recommend using mplayer (mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/videoX:width=960:height=544).

Audio noise fix:

  • Disable USB power supply (Settings > System)

Note: Remember that if anything goes wrong (like PSVita not booting) you can always press L at boot to skip plugin loading.

Note 2: No, it doesn't stream audio. For that use a 3.5mm jack to jack adapter (a ferrite bead might help reduce the electromagnetic noise).

Turning the screen off during streaming

These 2 projects are not on GitHub and are actually quite hard to find. They are included in AutoPlugin 2

udcd_uvc OLED - Turns the screen black, turning it off

udcd_uvc LCD - Turns the screen off while streaming

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