PS3 and External Hard Drive Question...

nash said:

Searched google but the only news i found on my question is a year old.

Does anyone know if the PS3 can support External HDs in NTSF format? I want to get some downloaded HighDef movie files onto my PS3's hard drive and they are well over 4gb in size. Anyone know how?

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Chimera 1 said:

You can always swap the PS3 HD to an larger one. Maybe 250 gigs. The instructions are online. I would go with that. And use the current HD as an external one.

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mfoga said:

I tried and found no way unless you can do by booting to linux instead but nothing through the PS3 interface.

Can you share it via a media server? It would still reside on PC but could be played on tv via PS3

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nash said:

Ive read that you can do that using TVersity or something...havent researched that yet.

Im assuming that I'd need a wireless router to set up a media server like that?

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mfoga said:

I run TwonkyMedia, on my PC and then the PS3 could see that running on the PC. You tell the software what to share. You just need the PC and the PS3 on the same network, wired or wireless.

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Natrix said:

To connect an external hard drive, it has to be formatted as a FAT32.

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nash said:

ah. How do I get the PS3 on the same network as my laptop? Im wired right now but should be getting a router to go wireless relatively soon.

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Slingblade said:

I have to say, I just put a 320 gig HD in my PS3 last week, and I also figured out how to stream media to it wirelessly with the TVersity free software, and I couldnt be happier. As for an external drive, yes, it has to be FAT32 which means 4gig file size limit.
I have found that streaming wireless has absolutely no problems, no hiccups, no buffering, no stuttering, it runs perfect for me.

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nash said:

I think TVersity is my only option at this point. Are you able to copy the files from TVersity to your PS3's hard drive?

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mfoga said:

No you stream files from your PC to the PS3.

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nash said:

I think TVersity is my only option at this point. Are you able to copy the files from TVersity to your PS3's hard drive?

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nash said:

damn that sucks, i was hoping to free up space on my PC and just leave them on the ps3.

What about a 16GB jump drive, I take it that it is the same situation as the external drives? Wont recognize unless it is formatted as FAT32 and therefore only 4gb files?

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Natrix said:

I can copy anything I can stream to the PS3 hard drive but I don't use TVersity.

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nash said:

ok, not sure what i'm doing wrong. hopefully someone can help...

I got TVersity to work (finally got a wireless router), and my PS3 recognized it. However when I tried to stream my movie it was scaled down from a 4.7GB file to 1.1GB on my PS3. The quality was terrible and the audio sounded like it was recorded underwater. Why is my file being scaled down on my PS3 and how do I play the regular 720P quality file? By the way, it is a .mkv file.

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ADVANCED SETTINGS FOR USERS WHO KNOW WHAT THEYRE DOING

If you get pass the hard part and have the video transcoding working. With enough CPU power, we can get much better picture quality instead of the default MPEG1 transcoding.

Bring up TVersity and goto the Transcoder tab. Set Optimization for Quality, Connection Speed: Wired or Wireless, Connection Quality: Excellent, Compression: Minimum. Set Max Video resolution to 1280x720 or upto 1920x1080 depends on your video clips native max resolution. And check the Decoding Speed option.

Stop the TVersity sharing. Goto the TVersity program file folder Media Server and find the profile.xml Open it and search for mpeg16 (should be under PS3 section). Change mpeg16 to mpeg2 to use MPEG2 transcoding instead of MPEG1. After modify save the change.

Optional (some say this will further improve the video quality): find the config.xml under TVersity program file folder Media Server. Open it and find the videoCompressionRatio="12", change 12 to a lower value (less compression) such as 5. You may also try to slightly increase the transcoding bitrate by adjust the bitrate="8000000" (default 8Mbps) value. After modify save the change.

Bring up TVersity and start the sharing. Clean all cached file in the General tab Temporary Media Files.

Play the transcoding video file from the PS3 and the video quality should be much improved if your original clip is in high quality.

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