Compatible Media Formats for the PS3 - UPDATE: Google Media Server w/YouTube in XMB

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Current Compatible Media Formats for the PS3

  • Images
    • BMP
    • GIF
    • JPEG
    • PNG
    • TIFF

  • Audio
    • AAC
    • AAC Low Complexity (unprotected)
    • ATRAC
    • Audio CD
    • MP3
    • MP4 Audio
    • MPEG-4 Part 3
    • SACD
    • WAV
    • WMA

  • Video
    • AVCHD (mts)
    • AVI
    • BD Video format on Blu-ray disc (Region Locked)
    • BD Video format on DVD-ROM
    • DVD Video (Region Locked)
    • DivX
    • Motion JPEG (w/Linear PCM)
    • MP4
    • MP4 AVI
    • MP4 DivX
    • MP4 Part 2
    • MP4 Part 10 (AVC/H.2648)
    • MPEG-1 (w/MPEG Audio Layer 2)
    • MPEG-2 (w/MPEG2 Audio Layer 2, AAC LC, AC3(Dolby Digital), LPCM)
    • VC-1 (wmv)
    • XviD
 
You sure that the PS3 supports WAV? Im sure it doesn't, because when I bounce tracks from Logic I do so as WAV, but when I try and play them on my PS3 it states unsupported format and gives me the broken file icon, unless they have changed this since the last few updates, or the WAV's I'm bouncing are at a higher bit-rate than the PS3 can support.
 
The main problem with audio and video files is that so often the file extensions are just a container for a different codec.

For example, not all WMV files are VC-1 codecs. I have actually had to convert a WMV file to WMV VC-1 to use on my PS3. Many times audio files are the same.

Fortunately, the PS3 does show the actual codec used in the Information screen for the files.

Until I got a transcode-on-the-fly media server I was having to convert a number of AVI, WMV, and MPG files.
 
YouTube on your XMB
Friday, 27 June 2008 17:46
With the release of the Google Media Server for Google Desktop you can now have quick and easy access to various YouTube videos straight from your XMB.

Once configured you get one-click access to the most viewed, featured, top rated, etc videos from YouTube which load directly as an AVC file without the need to open the browser. Not just that but you can also copy the clips straight to your PS3 HDD. I'm sure there's possibly a way of doing this already (maybe with TVersity?) but this couldn't be simpler.

If my explanation left you puzzled here's a YouTube video that should clear things up.
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Stream YouTube videos directly to your XMB
Posted Jul 10th 2008 4:30PM by Andrew Yoon
If you have Google Desktop, you may want to download the Google Media Server application. With it, you'll have an easy way of sending YouTube videos to your PS3. Once a computer on the same network as your PS3 is configured with Google Media Server, you'll be able to easily access the most viewed, top rated, and other featured YouTube videos instantly from the XMB. In fact, you'll not only see thumbnails, but you'll also be able to copy the videos directly to your PS3 hard drive, for easy replayability.
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Setup Google Media Server

 
I've just found this and installed Google Desktop and Google Media Server... it looks fantastic!
 
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Neat, though I was hoping for something else when I saw the title.

Is there a Media Server or some such that will let me stream .mkv and .ogm files to my PS3 and actually be able to watch them?
 
tversity can transcode mkv and ogm to mpeg2 on demand, but im having alot of troubles with it staying up or getting it to do what it says in the settings.
Googles interface is horrible and feels very privacy intrusive.
 
Youtube in XMB!! woot! cant wait to try it!
By the way, can I save the Youtube videos to PS3 HDD?
I hope that you can in the future have you're own FAV videos. That way I can find every all my fav videos, save it/DL it. And re watch it! :)
 
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AH, I get everything to work fine except I cant view the YouTube videos. Everytime I ENABLE the UPnP on the PS3 it automatically DISABLES it.
Can anyone help?
 
NoxNoctis Umbra
Youtube in XMB!! woot! cant wait to try it!
By the way, can I save the Youtube videos to PS3 HDD?
I hope that you can in the future have you're own FAV videos. That way I can find every all my fav videos, save it/DL it. And re watch it! :)
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Well, besides Google Media Server, and viewing YouTubes from the PS3's browser which it is actually quite good at, especially when you use the manual zoom feature (R3 to toggle it on/off and L2 & R2 to zoom). If all you want is to save videos off the internet, like from YouTube and play them through your PS3, then you'll have to copy them using a PC, and either use the PS3's DNLA media sharing with that PC, or copy the files to an external memory device or hard drive, and connect it to your PS3. From there you can either play them from those external devices, or copy the files to the PS3.

This is what we do, and are quite pleased with the results. We have several collections of videos from the internet, like the complete collection of Top Gear and Fifth Gear episodes as well as all the hilarious reviews from Zero Punctuation.

Now in some cases you may have to convert the video files to a format that the PS3 supports, but that's very easy to do and plenty of freeware programs you can use to do it.
 
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wbrinkman
tversity can transcode mkv and ogm to mpeg2 on demand, but im having alot of troubles with it staying up or getting it to do what it says in the settings.
Googles interface is horrible and feels very privacy intrusive.
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Odd. The PS3 sees the files on the TVersity server setup I have, but when I go to play a dual audio or such .mkv, it doesn't seem very happy...
 
No on the fly transcoding solution that I can just stream? I really want to avoid having to double up on files and the likes just to accommodate the PS3.
 
How do you get the PS3 to recognize these files? I loaded some pictures onto a 256mb thumb drive, and inserted it into the USB drive on the PS3. The system recognizes the hardware, but it doesn't show any of the pictures.
 
GT3man2001
How do you get the PS3 to recognize these files? I loaded some pictures onto a 256mb thumb drive, and inserted it into the USB drive on the PS3. The system recognizes the hardware, but it doesn't show any of the pictures.
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Hit triangle and then select display all. Unless you organize your files like the native PS3 folder system it doesn't look for them unless you tell it to.
 
Azuremen
No on the fly transcoding solution that I can just stream? I really want to avoid having to double up on files and the likes just to accommodate the PS3.
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I am not sure. I dont think you can stream .mkv files to ps3. I did try a while ago but like you I dident found it to be working. So now I just convert them, and copy them to my Internal drive. That way i can also watch them when I want without having to turn the PC on. ( I have a 320 GB drive in my PS3 so plenty of space )
 
GT3man2001
How do you get the PS3 to recognize these files? I loaded some pictures onto a 256mb thumb drive, and inserted it into the USB drive on the PS3. The system recognizes the hardware, but it doesn't show any of the pictures.
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It sounds like the issue is that you do not have the files in the appropriate folders, or possibly you have the files in folders that are also in more folders, which again the default file system on the PS3 won't recognize.

As FK said, if you highlight the drive or memory card in question, and press triangle, you can select "Display All" and now you will be able to see all folders and files.

You can get more info here, but basically you have to keep in mind that the PS3 has it's own file system, so when you are using external memory devices, like thumb drives, SD cards, and external hard drives, the files have to be in the appropriately labeled folders.

I believe they are as follows:
  • PICTURE
  • MUSIC
  • VIDEO
  • PS3
    • EXPORT
    • SAVEDATA
    • THEME
Now keep in mind you can still organize your files in folders so long as you do not have those folders in additional folders... as the PS3's file system only supports two levels of folder heirarchy.

For instance, say you had you photos organized on your drive the following way:

Directory
  • Photo #1 (not in any folder)
  • My Pictures (folder)
    • Photo #2
  • PICTURE (folder) - make sure it is "picture" and not "pictures"
    • Photo #3
    • 2008 Thanksgiving Vacation (folder)
      • Photo #4
    • 2007 Thanksgiving Vacation (folder)
      • Photo #5
      • Carving the Bird (folder)
        • Photo #6

In this scenario, here are the results:

Photo #1
  • Can only be seen by the PS3 by highlighting that drive and using the Display All option.
Photo #2
  • Can only be seen by the PS3 by highlighting that drive and using the Display All option and then selecting the folder My Pictures.
Photo #3
  • Can be seen by the PS3 by simply selecting that drive without having to use the Display All option.
Photo #4
  • Can be seen by the PS3 by simply selecting that drive and the folder 2008 Thanksgiving Vacation without having to use the Display All option.
Photo #5
  • Can only be seen by the PS3 by highlighting that drive and using the Display All option. Then select the folder PICTURE, then select the folder 2007 Thanksgiving Vacation. Then the PS3 will see that file.
Photo #6
  • Can only be seen by the PS3 by highlighting that drive and using the Display All option. Then select the folder PICTURE, then select the folder 2007 Thanksgiving Vacation. Then select the folder Carving the bird Then the PS3 will see that file.

So if you do not want to have to use the Display All option, then be sure your files are organized like the examples of Photos #3 & #4. 👍

I hope that helps.
 
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Thanks for the help guys. I'll try the triangle button thing tonight. I don't have the photos in any folders, just copied and pasted them onto the thumb drive.
 
GT3man2001
Thanks for the help guys. I'll try the triangle button thing tonight. I don't have the photos in any folders, just copied and pasted them onto the thumb drive.
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Then you definitely need to use Display All.


For some reason no one thinks to use the triangle button, even though every time you go in and out of the XMB it has a pop-up in the bottom that says to push it for options. One of my friends constantly asks me how to do things and it almost always comes down to triangle, and every time he goes, "I keep forgetting to use that button."

So, it isn't just you. It seems to be an odd issue for a lot of people.
 
TB
Looks like I went into a lot more detail with my instructions that I probably could have skipped...

:lol:
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I know the feeling... but you should post your excellent guide... 👍


Personally, I am holding off ripping my DVD collection until I settle on a specific interface to keep them organized and easy to find the movie we want to play on a bank of hard drives... as I currently have over 2,500 DVDs, which if I ripped them, would not only take an unbelievable amount of time, but it would also require several terabytes of data storage, which means I'll need to have them on multiple hard drives.
 
I would like to point something out that I discovered completely by accident in the processing of converting DVDs. I put the VOB files on my external drive because my old desktop was getting memory errors, so I was moving them to the new laptop to try it there.

When I plugged the drive into my PS3 I had left the VOB files on the drive. The PS3 will play raw VOB files ripped from a DVD, complete with the surround sound audio. Sure, a conversion saves space, but if you are lazy or don't have a lot of time this is an option.
 
I could have sworn that I tried to play vob's on the PS3 and it didn't work. Regardless, compressing 5 movies down to the size of one saves a hell of a lot of drive space.
 
TB
I could have sworn that I tried to play vob's on the PS3 and it didn't work. Regardless, compressing 5 movies down to the size of one saves a hell of a lot of drive space.
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It even played the vts files, but the menu wasn't interactive, just the 30 second video.
 

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