Comments on: Firmware 1.82 Coming

By: ehandlr

ehandlr — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:18:43 +0000

I’m gonna see if the ps3 will read my upconverted files now. I’m going to make a high quality 480p format and see what happens.

By: yodaddy

yodaddy — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:38:54 +0000

oh yea… I got a 11g mpeg file

By: ehandlr

ehandlr — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:52:59 +0000

The files that PS3 9 did not convert for me.. xvid4psp did. So I use both now depending on what I want.

By: DiRTDOG

DiRTDOG — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:59:07 +0000

This is the one thing I am really disapointed with the PS3. I should be able to use any encoding software to re encode my DVD collection in AVC H.264 format I tied to use nero which comes with a re encode app that will re encode .VOB files instead of having to buy all these other third party apps convert them to .avi just to get a movie file to work. I tried PS3 9 and it did not work all the time either but since it is freeware it will do. I have not herd of xvid4psp so I guess I will give it a shot.

By: Henning

Henning — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:56:20 +0000

Ooops. by mp4 files I meant MPEG4 encoded video files. My bad.

But just so you know, there ARE other sources of multichannel music. You already mentioned SACD. Some DVD’s have multichannel music, both in the form of videos/concerts and also just straight-up music. (Like Weird Al’s latest album.) Then there’s DVD-Audio of course. But and even earlier source of multichannel music is CD’s encoded with DTS. Yup, they exist, but are rare.

By: Darrin

Darrin — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:43:39 +0000

I would *love* to be able to get 5.1 music. How would you be able to do this?

Regular CDs and digital music stores are stereo-only. SACD’s support 5.1 mixes, but they are heavily DRM oriented and are designed to prohibit ripping tracks.

By: mcloki

mcloki — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:15:32 +0000

could this be in preperation for their movie store. This codec is used a lot in downloads. What I’d really like to see is the iTunes music store come to Playstation. That would make the PS3 a real great media center.

By: bobeotm

bobeotm — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:19:07 +0000

I dont know why they just dont go ahead and support some of the other common none license file types, like AVI’s. Heck they even support microsofts WMA format in music, so why not the common WMV format in video? It doesnt seem like it would be such a coding hassle to do, since friggen media player classic with a tiny codec pack seems to play everything under the sun (even quicktime and realplayer formats) and clocks in at only a few megabytes.

I love the PS3 and PSP as video players, but if they ever want me to truly adopt them as my end all be all for personal media, support more file types. I understand the reasoning for not supporting divx, since lets be honest, its the codec of choice for torrent sites. But that is not the rationale that can be applied to a common filetype like avi.