PS3 General discussion thread - Page 11

momodamonkey · November 15th, 2007, 01:10 AM

Thats it? Because it can play one freking media file everyone is so excited?

Gnu · November 15th, 2007, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by momodamonkey

Thats it? Because it can play one freking media file everyone is so excited?

Not only yes, but fuck yes.

November 15th, 2007, 01:16 AM

Yeah, it is a pretty good addition. MS had hinted about this for 360 in the Spring Update but it didnt happen... looks like Sony beat them to the punch.

Congrats Sony

PirateThom · November 15th, 2007, 01:19 AM

Basically every single downloaded video file in the world is an avi file, it's a common format and playing them directly from your hard drive is Godly.

It's also going to be used for uploading videos into Home.

Juno · November 15th, 2007, 01:23 AM

I tend to favour .mkv when I have the choice. Seems like I'll have to redownload my stuff as avi's though. Or are there plans to support .mkv?

Gnu · November 15th, 2007, 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Juno

I tend to favour .mkv when I have the choice. Seems like I'll have to redownload my stuff as avi's though. Or are there plans to support .mkv?

I believe that MKV can use Xvid/DivX, so it might just work.

Juno · November 15th, 2007, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Gnu

I believe that MKV can use Xvid/DivX, so it might just work.

Cool, I hope it does. It would be a pain to download all of about 40Gb of .mkv files I have =/

Gnu · November 15th, 2007, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Juno

Cool, I hope it does. It would be a pain to download all of about 40Gb of .mkv files I have =/

There are utilities out there that will tell you which codec a media file uses.. I dont recall one offhand, but if you do some looking around, i'm sure you can find one.

Kohi · November 15th, 2007, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by PirateThom

Basically every single downloaded video file in the world is an avi file, it's a common format and playing them directly from your hard drive is Godly.

It's also going to be used for uploading videos into Home.

That would be true two years ago. Slowly as high speed internet has made its rounds more high quality codecs have become popular, particularly H264 and MKV. While being able to play DivX is nice it is not a magic bullet. I mean, I can already stream DivX encoded files directly to my PS3 without a hitch, its the MKV files that are a problem because of the multiple streams.

Juno · November 15th, 2007, 02:17 AM

Is it true that the PS3 can do H264 files? I think I read that somewhere and I know I've got some.

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November 15th, 2007, 01:10 AM	#101
momodamonkey Bad Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New York Posts: 3,104	Thats it? Because it can play one freking media file everyone is so excited?

November 15th, 2007, 01:16 AM	#103
PhoenixKfz Guest Posts: n/a	Yeah, it is a pretty good addition. MS had hinted about this for 360 in the Spring Update but it didnt happen... looks like Sony beat them to the punch. Congrats Sony

November 15th, 2007, 01:23 AM	#105
Juno Hardcore Non Gamer Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Altrincham, UK Posts: 7,526	I tend to favour .mkv when I have the choice. Seems like I'll have to redownload my stuff as avi's though. Or are there plans to support .mkv?

November 15th, 2007, 02:17 AM	#110
Juno Hardcore Non Gamer Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Altrincham, UK Posts: 7,526	Is it true that the PS3 can do H264 files? I think I read that somewhere and I know I've got some.