What is the deal with NTSF!?!?!

[ThePhantomOak]

I am trying to put a Movie on my External HDD. (In fact, I am putting all my DVD's onto HDD so I can put them in storage to save up some space for BD's)

Because FAT32 will only allow me to write files at about a 4GB limit, I reformatted my external HDD to NTSF so I could write my 4+GB movie on it.

That worked fine for making the movie one file, but now I plug it into the PS3 and wammo -- it only will read FAT32?!?

WTF is the deal with that? I know Sony has no problem with massive file sizes (game installs have been bigger than 4GB)...

so what can I do to unfock the situation? Is there going to be a fix? Is there a way to write a 5GB file to FAT32 (every time I have tried to, it shows an error at 4GB)?



Oh, Also, I have no way to reformat back to FAT32 on my Windows XP computer... double ****ing great.

[CAB]

NTFS requires licensing and isn't so opensource. Thought about streaming the movie from your PC?

[ThePhantomOak]

Originally Posted by CAB

NTFS requires licensing and isn't so opensource. Thought about streaming the movie from your PC?

I want my PS3 to play movies from my HDD. My computer does not have the space, and my PS3 does not have the space (yet).

In other words, if I understand the question correctly, it does me no good to stream

I just want a way to rip my movies to my something my PS3 can read without dropping a couple hundo on a new internal HDD when I need at least 1TB for what I am looking to do... Nuts.

[red_5ive]

Try a video file splitter like VirtualDubMod.

[ThePhantomOak]

Originally Posted by red_5ive

Try a video file splitter like VirtualDubMod.

How does PS3 read the files from that? Like chapters? Just as if it were one file?

Thanks!

[CAB]

I think you're stuck with the 4GB limit of FAT32. Only other option I could think of was streaming from a PC or NAS.

[ThePhantomOak]

Oh, And how do I get my HDD back to FAT32? That was really a screw up on my part... Now my HDD is next to worthless (If I cant run it on my PS3).

[red_5ive]

Originally Posted by ThePhantomOak

How does PS3 read the files from that? Like chapters? Just as if it were one file?

Thanks!

If you have a single .avi file, you can split it to say 2 .avi files. You pick the split point as long as it's below 4GB (i.e., split into 1gb files, 2gb files, 3gb files, etc.). The PS3 will then just treat each file like separate .avi files, so when you're finished watching one you just start the other.

[CAB]

Originally Posted by ThePhantomOak

Oh, And how do I get my HDD back to FAT32? That was really a screw up on my part... Now my HDD is next to worthless (If I cant run it on my PS3).

You can plug it back into your Windows XP machine and reformat the existing partition to FAT32.

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[foots]

Originally Posted by ThePhantomOak

I want my PS3 to play movies from my HDD. My computer does not have the space, and my PS3 does not have the space (yet).

In other words, if I understand the question correctly, it does me no good to stream

I just want a way to rip my movies to my something my PS3 can read without dropping a couple hundo on a new internal HDD when I need at least 1TB for what I am looking to do... Nuts.

It does do you good to stream. You can hook up your external hard drive to your PC and stream from the external hard drive using WMP.

EDIT: Read my post from this thread: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=57804

[ThePhantomOak]

Originally Posted by foots

It does do you good to stream. You can hook up your external hard drive to your PC and stream from the external hard drive using WMP.

EDIT: Read my post from this thread: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=57804

Outstanding, thanks for everyones help...

I will try to do that ^^there^^.


BTW, Thanks for not flaming when I should have found that in a search... did not even think about it. GEEEZE. (See sig for other example of retardation)

[foots]

Originally Posted by ThePhantomOak

Outstanding, thanks for everyones help...

I will try to do that ^^there^^.


BTW, Thanks for not flaming when I should have found that in a search... did not even think about it. GEEEZE. (See sig for other example of retardation)

No problem. I hope you get it working.

[andrec54]

Just use TVersity as a media server and when it shows up on the PS3 you can select copy same as you would from a USB device and copy larger files over. THe only problem is getting them off the PS3 again, I don't know how to do that so I'd save a backup on some other format also just in case. I have copied 8gb files using this method without problems.