Putting movies on PS3

[Odium69]

I have a couple movies ripped to my laptop, how would i go about putting them onto my ps3 so i can view them from the video option.any input would help thanks

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Odium69

I have a couple movies ripped to my laptop, how would i go about putting them onto my ps3 so i can view them from the video option.any input would help thanks

Get a USB flash drive, or any other solid state media, and copy the video onto it. Insert the drive into the PS3's USB port, go to the X-Cross media bar, go to video, select the drive, hit trangle and you will see the videos. Then hit triangle again and selct "Copy Multiple" and check the ones you want.
What format are your ripped videos? If the screen says unsupported data, then download this to convert the vidoes to .MP4 format.

[Smc77]

I use an external USB drive and dump all my movies onto that. I dont bother encoding them to mp4 or AVC, takes too long. I use DVD Shrink and dump the files directly to the external HDD

[Aaron]

Welcome Smc77. What format do you convert them to?

[The Don]

Originally Posted by Smc77

I use an external USB drive and dump all my movies onto that. I dont bother encoding them to mp4 or AVC, takes too long. I use DVD Shrink and dump the files directly to the external HDD

unless you stream the movies to your PS3, it won't read anything but AVC/mp4

[takezo]

MP4 is just a container file much like AVI. AVC is the name of the h.264 MPEG codec used by Sony to Encode BLu-ray and PSP UMD video.

AVC will give you the best quality, but encoding into AVC can be quite a daughnting task using tools used by video encoding gurus. There are programs that can encode to PS3 format such as PS3 video 9. There is a nice wizard to follow, however size will be huge, and quaity average. To fully use AVC is a very steep learning curve, and encoding it using either noob wizards or guru tools takes lots of processing power from your PC.

MPEG2 is another option, Mpeg 2 is also supported by PS3, MPEG 2 is much faster to encode as there is less compression, thus quailty MPEG 2 files will be monsterous in size. There are tons of MPEG 2 encoding apps that are drag n drop, PS3 video 9 sould also do MPEG 2 for those quick and dirty encodes.

Steaming video via Windows Media Player share, all files MUST be either AVC encoded MP4 or MPEG 2. Any ipod video or video bought from itunes will play on PS. Any other file will be seen as corrupt data.

Streaming video via Nero Home share will transcode any video file to play on PS3. Draw back is that it's not very good at it. Infact it sucks. Playback will skip like crazy unless it's a low quaity file akin to likes you get off youtube.
has nothing to do with bandwith because much higher quaity files in Windows media play just fine.

And even with Wireless G, Streaming is not perfect. Directly conected PS3 via ethernet, should help, though it sucks form me since my whole house is based off WIFI.

[shido]

Originally Posted by The Don

unless you stream the movies to your PS3, it won't read anything but AVC/mp4

The PS3 can read Mpeg2 directly as well. Not sure if DVD vob files count, but there are programs that can quickly convert vob to an Mpeg stream without reencoding.

[The Don]

Originally Posted by shido

The PS3 can read Mpeg2 directly as well. Not sure if DVD vob files count, but there are programs that can quickly convert vob to an Mpeg stream without reencoding.

I put a mpeg-2 file on my computer and it didn't work....but that probably means nothing since there are mp4 types that it won't read...

also ps3 video 9 isn't as good as the umm PS3 Video Converter 3

http://www.mp4converter.net/PS3-vide...erter-win.html

I'm pretty sure this will work as I use this...and it worked better for me than Video 9 did...

edit: vob will not work...I can't even convert those into mp4

[flo7002]

it sucks you have to go through so much trouble to play video files... I wish it could play iso, divx files...

[The Don]

Originally Posted by flo7002

it sucks you have to go through so much trouble to play video files... I wish it could play iso, divx files...

they'll allow more with future firmware upgrades I think..

even at this point, watching a movie via stream isn't worth it...it's only good for pictures and music...

the movies skip every minute...but I expect this to be tightened up within a year...and that's giving them a wide open window, they'll likely wrap it up by christmas...but thats JMO...

[supersix4]

if you want ill send you an ipod converter that will change everything to the right aspect ratio/ format so it will rip right on to the ps3 /via flash drive or ipod just pm me

[flo7002]

I'm debating weather to install Linux. I hear you can do alot of things with that. I wonder if it's really worth the trouble...

[supersix4]

if you get the high quality movies from your computer they will be high quality on your tv if there crappy which alot are they will stay crappy

[supersix4]

its easy just get a converter (which i have) takes about 15 min depending on ur comp a quality movie is about 700,000+ mb that will look dvd / tv quality on your tv... convert divx,avi, all that then find it on the ps3 and it just puts it on the ps3 easy as cake whole thing if you have the movie on your hard drive takes about 24 minutes

[supersix4]

for the vob you just need something to read the protection

[flo7002]

I have a lot of high quality files on my comp, it's just a pain to move it to my living room just to watch stuff, that's why I wish there was a easy way to stream them through the PS.

[supersix4]

meh 20 minutes isnt bad

[flo7002]

Originally Posted by supersix14

its easy just get a converter (which i have) takes about 15 min depending on ur comp a quality movie is about 700,000+ mb that will look dvd / tv quality on your tv... convert divx,avi, all that then find it on the ps3 and it just puts it on the ps3 easy as cake whole thing if you have the movie on your hard drive takes about 24 minutes

so what converter/program is this? I got a pretty good comp, so it shouldn't take too long to convert stuff

[Aaron]

I use PS3 Video 9. It's really good, and free. It took 45 minutes to convert a whole movie to .mp4 Link

[The Don]

Originally Posted by AaronDavies

I use PS3 Video 9. It's really good, and free. It took 45 minutes to convert a whole movie to .mp4 Link

I have noticed it's a bit more picky than the one I use...

and yes, I forgot that I had to pay 30 bucks for mine...but you can probably get it off demonoid.com....

I am considering uploading it to demonoid.com, but is there any harm to giving out my serial etc., as opposed to having a keygen?...