PS3 owners... Able to answer some questions?

NeilF · 26 Mar 2009 at 13:46

OK, I'm wondering if a PS3 is a solution to:-
1) Bluray player
2) Being able to watch videos AVIs (tv series/films)
3) Being able to look through our large photo collection (organised into a nice tree structure of folders)

I don't believe you can copy files to a PS3 wirelessly, so I recon if I have one of those self powered passport USB drives and simply copy my videos and photos to it from my PC, and then plug this into the PS3?

Questions:-
1) Would the above scenario work?
2) How fast/responsive/good is the photo navigation?
3) Would standard AVI (Divx, XVid etc) files playback OK? (With subtitle files too?)
4) Are files shown on a USB devices sorted (eg: into filename order)? Or are they shown in creation order (as happens on some simple devices when accessing USB)
5) Out of interest, can you delete files off a USB device using the PS3?

Anyone got any general comments about this plan? I want it to be as hassle & trouble free as possible. The last thing I want to have to do for example is convert video files etc.

NeilF · 26 Mar 2009 at 14:27

Robert1986 said:
Movies with a subtitles track (.sub,.srt ect) won't work. You'll have to hard encode the subs to the movie.

Blah! Oh well... This is only a small issue!

NeilF · 26 Mar 2009 at 14:30

Streeteh said:
Also as stated above, if you point the PS3 at the external drive, press triangle and then select 'view all' it will display the contents of the USB device exactly as they are organized. So your chosen file structure will remain intact.

Sorry, regarding the order of files...

With some devices I've encounted, the files are shown in the order in which you put the files on the device, which sucks! So if you copy files A, B and C on there in the following order:-
B
C
A

...that's the order they are listed in when viewing them. When all logic dictates they should be shown in alphabetical order:-
A
B
C

Does the PS3 sort them (alphabetically) into a logical order, or just show them in creation order (which is painful)?

Thanks

NeilF · 26 Mar 2009 at 14:35

UKDTweak said:
If memory serves, you can alter the view to change the order things appear in, from date to album name etc...

So you can show things (by default) just in alphabetical order?

ps: The one thing I wouldn't be putting on there is music. I have a lovely Squeeze box to handle that