PS3 Firmware update 2.10

Got some random files from my vids library some DivX/Xvid some WMV all types played with sound fine. The new visualiser for MP3 is nice its a nasa sat picture of the earth in HD, it looks great.
 
I did try a few files earlier this morning while I was there.

It played every DivX/XviD file I chucked at it, except ones I'd made myself with AutoGK. Still a bit miffed at that.

Got some disks with favourite episodes of Top Gear and stuff on there, but it just won't play them.

If I press triangle I get

TITLE: Top Gear.avi
Updated: 23/4/2007
Size: 701MB
Length: 59'17
Resolution 720x416
Video Codec: DivX(R) 1.5mbps
Audio Codec: MP3 177kbps

so it recognises it OK, but won't play.
All other DivX from internet play fine... either from disk or network.

To the poster above, if you want to play video from a memory card or disk, you either have to put the video files in a folder called VIDEO, or press triangle on the disk to show all files.

I'm most pleased about the networks streaming. A godsend, and of course, all upscaled to 1080p. I just hope in future updates, it'll allow me to play my own files. In the meantime, I'll play around with the settings I use, and disable the MTK/sigma compatibility checkbox, and see if that fixes it.
Typical, my own XviD files play back in both of my DivX DVD players, PCs obviously, and also various friends and families DivX DVD player, no problems, or I'd not have been using these settings for all these years. Damn that was a disappointment this morning ;)

Ah well, as I said, future update hopefully. At least it plays all my other TV series files.

I'll have a go at mkv files later... maybe renaming to .mp4 helps?
I didn't try .wmv yet, but it's not a format I've ever used. I only personally use MPEG2 for DVD and XviD. I do have some of those HD .wmv showcase files here, I'll try some later

V1N.

EDIT: Is there an email address the public can write to with feedback about the PS3? Specifically to do with updates? I'd write to them if I could, but not via one of those horrible, moany forums ;) like playstation blog.
 
Some feedback would be good, would also like to tell them to sort the file structure out i.e. there is no option for 'sort by filename' when you put your music on the thing, end up with albums/artists all over the place. Unlucky on the playback of your files matey, it's defianately because of the standalone support i'm afraid.
 
Was playing on my ps3 last night, when i finished i saw that there was an update, so i tried to download it, took about 3 hrs just to get to 20% so i decided to leave it all night, just woke up and there was an error message, so it didnt dl, tried checking the playstation website but cant see the update there.
 
JBeck said:
Unlucky on the playback of your files matey, it's defianately because of the standalone support i'm afraid.
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I thought as much.

A shame, and I've continued using it, as I never had a problem on any other player in the past, quite the opposite, it fixed a jerky panning problem on one or two of them (with MTK/Sigma chipsets)

I'll disable it from now on.

It is a shame, as I have quite a collection of old favourite TV shows I kept as DivX on DVD files... but, I can still play them back though the PC connected to the TV, or, just stick the disk in my DivX DVD player, same as I ever did.
From now on I'll do a few tests and make sure my files conform to the PS3s standard, but also continue to hope that a future update may play them.

btw. I did try the HD showcase .wmv files, they played :) Looked great, but choppy here, but only as my wireless wasn't fast enough for the high bitrate HD content. Will need to get another switch, and plug an RJ45 in the back for that kind of thing.
V1N.

EDIT: and I don't mean to sound too disheartened. Althogh I can't play my own made XviD files at the moment, it's still a brilliant update. I was concerned that it would only play back from disk/memory stick, and am so delighted that we can stream them, with no transcoding. Will be great for downloaded TV series... can just chuck the whole series in a folder on the server, and watch at leisure, with no disks. The quality is very good too. Upscaled to 1080p of course, but even the lower bitrate DivX encodes look better than my DivX dvd player does them :)
 
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McManicMan said:
just burning to dvdr a HDDVD VC1.1 1080P 5.1 WMV
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disk?

Get your network set up man! Streaming for the win ;)
(unless you're using wireless)

Cool, post back if it works... and if it's good.... let me know what it is, and where you got it. I'm always up for testing fancy quality vids :)
V1N.
 
I see you can also copy Divx WMV etc files to the PS3 HD if you so wish, quite useful may need to upgrade my 160GB to 250 then lol.
 
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msmalls74 said:
See you can also copy Divx WMV etc files to the PS3 HD if you so wish, quite useful may need to upgrade my 160GB to 250 then lol.
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I think you could do that before the update! ?
I'm sure I tried that once, ages ago, in an attempt to get different file formats playing... in fact, yes, I did.

You could always copy them to the HDD, but still only get unsupported data when you tried to play it back.

V1N.

EDIT: Sorry mate, just whizzing through the posts, I thought you were posting a question. I'd understood "See IF you can also copy Divx WMV etc)
 
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McManicMan said:
i'm using wireless, it is setup for streaming,. i'll try both
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Ah, that's fair enough ;)

That'll be fine for normal DivX, and even HD DivX (as the ones off the net are generally fairly low bitrate) but the high bitrate HD files won't stream over wireless... you just get a slideshow.

V1N.
 
Hmmm, I just tried renaming some mkv files to .mp4, the PS3 doesn't even see them!

Also tried renaming some VC-1 .mov files to various file extensions, didn't work either. Shame, the elusive .mkv HD files still won't play without work being done on them.

Ah well, we have DivX, it's a start!

V1N.

EDIT: and yes, just burned those .wmv HD showcase files to disk as well, to try them without the bandwidth limitation of my wireless. The pic plays back fine, for example the Amazon_1080 file, shows as

Size 105MB
Length 1'42"
Resolution 1080x1440
Video Codec VC-1 (WMV) 8.0mbps
Audio Codec -

Yep, no sound!

EDIT: Just tried a few more HD WMV files over my network, pic fine, no sound.
Tried a normal WMV, and that did have sound, PS3 displays it as WMA 2Ch. 44.1Khz.

Just trying the WMV HD files in GSpot, and it identifies the audio as

0x0162 (Windows Media Audio 9 Professional) but, it's 5.1 sound, maybe this is part of the problem?

The WMA file that did have sound, is identified by GSpot as

0x0161 (WMA v2) Stereo
 
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One thing I notice that's new -

When you sorted video files "by album", "a-z", "by date", you only got static thumbnails. Now the 15-second video thumbnails have returned on all views!
 
mcwildcard said:
Are any of these test files you're using files over 2GB then?
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Not so far, though I've just noticed that I do have one.

It's a 2.21gb HD WMV file

It's in the same folder as the other WMV HD files I have, but is showing up as Unsupported Data. I could try burning to disk and having a go.

V1N.

EDIT: Nogo. Burned the disk using UDF format to fit the >2gb file on the disk. PS3 can see it, but gives me unsupported data.
To be honest though, to me personally, this is no real bother. Most, 99.9%, of the files I have are <2gb.. hell, less than 1gb, as they're mainly TV eps. I'm delighted to have this support at all. Tried a whole bunch, streamed off my PC, and it played every single one, with the exception of my own ones!

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Hmmm, despite being Unsupported Data, pressing triangle on it gives the correct details, including that it's "VC-1 (WMV) 8.0Mbps)
same as it does with my home made DivX files, it displays the correct codec info, length and size, but won't play.
Maybe this stuff will be updated in a future firmware again. This is the first DivX firmware, putting down basic support, maybe they'll add to it.
 
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How can I copy a DIVX AVI to the PS3 without streaming the file or converting it to MPEG2?

Can it be done with TVersity?
 
Dutch Guy said:
How can I copy a DIVX AVI to the PS3 without streaming the file or converting it to MPEG2?

Can it be done with TVersity?
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To copy a DivX file, first, disable TVersity, as that transcodes, you won't need that any more.

You can either do it the manual way, USB key/disk

or, set up Media Player (if you're using Windows) (or any other media server software - maybe TVersity can act as a media server without transcoding? I can't help, I've never used it)

For me, what I do is click on the Media Player Server icon on the PS3 XMB.
Navigate to the folder with the files I want
Press Triangle
Press Copy.

HTH

V1N.
 
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