best bet is to drag your file into gspot and see what codec it was encoded with (filename is largely irrelevant in this case). I am fairly sure xviid does stream (as long as WMP11 Library can see it)
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best bet is to drag your file into gspot and see what codec it was encoded with (filename is largely irrelevant in this case). I am fairly sure xviid does stream (as long as WMP11 Library can see it)
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Yeah will do it later, just out of curiosity now. Like I said, no big deal, was just trying to test a file quick before legging it out the front door.
Edit: But my point stands, the 360 could play it fine, the PS3 couldn't.
I agree, it works much better as a George Foreman Grill
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I tell you I'm actually finding it very stressful streaming stuff to the PS3 after owning a 360, everything on the PS3 atm seems very hit and miss as to what it will play, the 360 I just load up media connect on my PC click allow device, choose shared folder, done, I can't even get media player 11 sharing videos with my PS3 
, shares music and pictures ok, do you need speciel codecs or something, If it for wasn't home coming out I'd trade it back tbh, I'm not happy, everything seems more work on it .
, shares music and pictures ok, do you need speciel codecs or something, If it for wasn't home coming out I'd trade it back tbh, I'm not happy, everything seems more work on it .Thanks rp great help I knew you didn't want to do it but it helped answer my questions. Kudos to you.
Perhaps you should link your answer to the FAQ.
I'm going over to see a mates PS3 tonight who has the problems hopefully armed with this information i'll be able to sort it out for him. At least to see what he's doing wrong perhaps it's the way he's encoding his DVDs.
What's the best method of encoding for good streaming playback?
Perhaps you should link your answer to the FAQ.
I'm going over to see a mates PS3 tonight who has the problems hopefully armed with this information i'll be able to sort it out for him. At least to see what he's doing wrong perhaps it's the way he's encoding his DVDs.
What's the best method of encoding for good streaming playback?
If I were you I wouldnt try steaming anything with your ps3 - it wont do anything any good
Sorry - I know its a lousy joke over the missing "r" in the title
LMAO I didn't notice hehe... you are right of course and a steamiron is really best for steaming although I think it would invalidate the PS3 warranty.
I tell you I'm actually finding it very stressfull streaming stuff to the PS3 after owning a 360, everthing on the PS3 atm seems very hit and miss as to what it will play, the 360 I just load up media connect on my PC click allow device, choose shared folder, done, I can't even get media player 11 sharing videos with my PS3
tbh media connect was great. Dunno why MS pulled it and replaced it with WMP11.
Obviously it is hard to help specifically in this case as we all have different files and most of which may not well be legal to discuss on this forum.
I can only assume you are doing something wrong (based on my own experience), but it could just be that you have files that are not compatible. Do you have any publicly accessible files that are not "dodgy" that someone can try to compare?
The easiest test i found (to make sure Windows side of things is OK) was just to dwonlaod a trailer from Playstation store, transfer to my PC and then stream that. The rest is just a case of putting different files into the folder (once your ps3 can see the WMP11 extender)
There is so many tools out there now it is hard to keep up!!! ps3video9 (google it) is a good one, but I find the interface a bit crappy tbh. Nearly all video convertors will convert from your file format to mp4 which the ps3 will play and stream (But there are loads of tolls that do the same thing, so just find the one whose interface you like most). I would say this is the best method for any divx/xvid that won't playback on ps3. For mkv files (matroska media files), the h264 ones that are 720p, you can use a tool called mkv2vob (google it) that will convert your files for you. It only converts *** audio to make it compatible so is quite quick (quicker then re-encoding the whole video and audio streams). A lot is down to *** spec of your PC/Mac too.
At some point I will write a brief guide to setting up WMP11 streaming and have some screenshots etc, but just not had time. But I barely use the streaming tbh (I have spent more time testing it for curiosity rather than viewing files!!), so am by no means an expert.
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Well that's what I read on a few websites. Maybe it's not all XViD then, but if you are having problems with any it could be worth a try
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I use tversity to stream to my ps3 and it works very well. There are just a few files that it struggles with.
Nero also works but I prefer the interface of tversity.
Nero also works but I prefer the interface of tversity.
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I've installed 'Twonkymedia' and have it working allot better now, I've downloaded gpot to find out what codecs I'm having problems with and it seems it's my XVID files that the PS3 doesn't like, I just copied a bunch of different video files to a usb key and tried playing them on the PS3 natively and I have the same problem, plays my DIVX'x fine but not my XVIDS, so I guess the PS3 just doesn't support them, a bit of a bummer really as my 360 supported them and half my video's are encoded this way
, looks like 360 is coming back lol, thanks for all your help mate.For anyone that wants to use the ps3 as a media extender I definitely recommend 'Twonkymedia', I've tried loads of different apps over the last few days and 'Twonkymedia' was by far the easiest of the bunch, bare in mind though it costs $30 but it's worth it.
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I've installed 'Twonkymedia' and have it working allot better now, I've downloaded gpot to find out what codecs I'm having problems with and it seems it's my XVID files that the PS3 doesn't like, I just copied a bunch of different video files to a usb key and tried playing them on the PS3 natively and I have the same problem, plays my DIVX'x fine but not my XVIDS, so I guess the PS3 just doesn't support them, a bit of a bummer really as my 360 supported them and half my video's are encoded this way
For anyone that wants to use the ps3 as a media extender I definitely recommend 'Twonkymedia', I've tried loads of different apps over the last few days and 'Twonkymedia' was by far the easiest of the bunch, bare in mind though it costs $30 but it's worth it.
Weird. I just set up the media shaing on a "clean" windows vista ultimate machine (never used wmp11 on it before and fully windows updated yesterday). Added the sharing found my ps3. Connected USB drive to pc and added a top level folder of my tv shows. It indexed them all and I can play them on Vista and on ps3. Vista identifies 80% of them as xvid codec. ps3 shows "-" in codec(but shows divx correctly in the divx files).
I added 522 files in total (ain't checked them all though). That is a fraction of the content on my NAS but the ps3 can't see that natively. I have read that if I install Twonky Media onto the NAS (there is a non windows version that you install direct onto the NAS unit) the ps3 will see it. At the moment I can add my network drive that windows can see into WMP11 BUT the ps3 won;t see the files (I guess cos its from a network share to a network share?) So I am getting Twonky Media, but for different reasons to you. At the moment I am frantically trying to find space to copy of all my files from the NAS before committing and buying Twonky to install on it. I think it will turn my NAS into a DNLA device that the ps3 will see, hopefully.
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