Transferring from PC to PS3

I thought the idea of the PS3 was it was "more than a games console", at least thats the jist I got from the £425 price tag. If you can't even transfer files that sucks.
 
weringo said:
I thought the idea of the PS3 was it was "more than a games console", at least thats the jist I got from the £425 price tag. If you can't even transfer files that sucks.
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you can just not straight over a network connection. that may or may not be fixed in a later firmware but there are plenty of ways around that. an external drive being one of them. with streaming being possible i dont really see why its a big problem?
 
Surely theres a way of transfering over the network if you are in Linux on the PS3 and have Linux installed on your PC as well?
 
you can then, yes. but i dont know if they've managed to gain access to the ps3 partition on the drive through linux. if not then anythign you transfer wouldnt be seen in the xmb anyway.
 
You can stream DIVX/XVID/etc. files from a computer, you can also convert and transfer them to the PS3's harddive, a 314MB DIVX is converted to a 900MB mpg

You can copy MP3's and Photos as well.

What other files do you want to transfer to the PS3
 
All you need is a (free) program called TVersity, it transcodes your media files and streams them to your PS3 from your PC.
I can watch pretty much any format through it, even 720p mkv files work well (although I do have quite a decent PC).
My boss has a rubbish PC, but it still streams all non-HD content just fine.
720p might be okay too, but he's not tried it as yet.
 
You should be grateful people are even responding. Your original post was misleading, you never mentioned anything about streaming over a network.

You don't even sound like you want a games console, just buy a mac mini or something if you that is your main purpose for the console. I just burn my stuff to DVDs in minutes or just transfer them to a memory stick and it's good enough for me.
 
If you don't want to stream and want to transfer the files themselves, this can be done using the Redkawa file server

http://www.redkawa.com/fileserver/

It uses the PS3's web browser to connect to your PC. I use it to transfer photo's, video and music wirelessly. Note however, that the PS3 is fussy about video formats and doing it this way may require the video to be transcoded first. Redkawa also provide a utility for doing this.

Don't mess about, just buy one. You know you want to :D

*EDIT* Really should remove my xbox avatar since trading it for the PS3 :cool:
 
If you really are that bothered about transferring stuff it sounds like you want a media center more than a games console?

If so get a cheap barebone system, 175 quid odd now for a micro PC, not even one with crap specs either. That'll kick the crap out of a PS3/360 as a media hub.
 
Jagi said:
Thanks but you didn't really answer my question. :P

I watch many series and with my old Xbox I was able to transfer them across the network to the console and watch them on my big TV.

Why should I buy an external hard drive when they're asking £400 for something that's lacking basic functionality?
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Is that the basic functionality that you added by modding your original console? ;)

A bit unfair to judge an out of the box console against one that has been modified to provide non-manufacturer intended features.
 
I thought the PS3 hard drive was just a notebook drive? So surely you can just hook it up to your pc and transfer files across?
 
Just keep your modded xbox1 and use that, I know for sure hardly any of the content I download is HD so why spend more £ on something that isn't really needed and that will play a smaller range of video formats? :confused:

If you really must have something as a media player/streamer theres a gooden thats not long out for around £200-300 depending on hard drive size.

*edit* Here it is on OcUK:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-027-FC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=707
 
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