A PS3 / 360 video/audio encode question

ikillbears · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:35

I'm encoding a couple of my DVD's for back up.

I was wandering if any one could tell me which container i can use that both the consoles will play back. An important aspect for me is to retain 5.1 in the file. It seems as tho the 360 allows 5.1 in avi but the ps3 doesn't, while the PS3 only allows 5.1 in mp4 . . . i think

Is this correct, I've tried reading a lot of stuff on the net but it gets a little confusing and would be nice to have the human touch

orderoftheflame · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:50

There's a few of formats that support 5.1 on the PS3.

Is it necessary for you to stream to both consoles? I gave up streaming to the Xbox when I got my PS3.

I'm streaming my backed up DVDs as VOBs to my PS3. Work perfectly and 5.1 sound is definitely in there.

ikillbears · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:55

I'm connecting them with my external HD. Only reason I would say both machines is incase i move my xbox to a dif room etc. But i guess reallllllllyyy thinking about it its only the ps3 that i would really use the 5.1. Does that basically mean im stuck to VOBs?

orderoftheflame · 5 Mar 2009 at 18:59

There's a few things that the PS3 supports with 5.1 I think, just VOBs that I'm familiar with.

If you're connecting an external HDD you'll have to format it to FAT32 which limits the size of each file to 4GB I think.

ikillbears · 5 Mar 2009 at 19:09

Yeah i have the HDD formatted into FAT32. Problem is with my currently ripped Vobs they are split across 4-7 files at about a gig each. So i dont know if it will play them all in one go. At the moment size isnt really an issue as its a TB HDD but obviously it cant go above 4gig as its FAT32, thats why i was going to encode them