Which files will play on the 360 and ps3

Psycho Sonny · 23 Aug 2007 at 19:47

right guys i have bought a brand spanking new seagate external hard drive 500GB now i have loads of movies on my pc all of them in different formats, what is the best way to get them converted? and onto to the hard drive so they play on my ps3 and xbox 360 or if they wont play on both then just for ps3 because its much quieter than my 360, so basically i need these movies to play on my ps3 in very good quality i own a HDTV and everything else i need to enjoy the goodness, what is the best file format to use? MPEG2? what is the best settings to use with regard to sound etc? my sammy HDTV only has stereo so i could maybe get away with low quality sound but what types of sound are supported when playing movies on my ps3? AC3, mp2 or mp3? which is the best to use? how many fps should i use? 24, 25, 29 or 30? what audio sampling rate should i use? any and all help is much appreciated

Psycho Sonny · 23 Aug 2007 at 23:43

how do you do it in nero-recode? what section do you go into? ive used recode to make dvd's before but not to recode a filei dont understand what options you need to choose

Psycho Sonny · 24 Aug 2007 at 00:29

thanks a lot, its a bit slow though aint it? 2 hours to recode a movie? and im using an e6600 at stock, i could up it to 3.6ghz if needed. ill see after i do this one movie and see if it works

Psycho Sonny · 24 Aug 2007 at 01:10

Kreeeee said:
Watercooled? Apparently I'm incredibly lucky to get my e6600 to 3.6GHz on air at decent temps.

Air Cooling using a titan amanda

e6600 at stock with speedstep enabled (1.6 ghz) idles at 40C
same as abova but at load 45C
e6600 at 3.6 ghz full orthos load maxes at 55C
same as above but at idle 50C

the titan amanda is useless if you are running at stock but when you put it under a lot of pressure it pulls through

Psycho Sonny · 24 Aug 2007 at 11:40

its taking far too long to convert files, say 500 movies at this rate would take 1000 hours thats like 50 days i dont think even upping to 3.6ghz will effect speed so much that it makes me convert them all in a day

Psycho Sonny · 24 Aug 2007 at 14:09

Kreeeee said:
Saying that I have a tuniq tower on minimum speed with case fans on minimum speed and I'm getting 48C full orthos load at 3.45GHz. I just don't like noise or breaking the 50C psychological barrier

Mine idles at 31C though in a 25C room without speedstep enabled =/

i reckon you could do 3.6Ghz then but if your not comfortable with temps over 50 thats fine, but these chips are rated to do up to 80C or something after 80C they start to throttle and when they hit 100C they start to shutdown, its near impossible to kill one of them unless you do something really stupid

Psycho Sonny · 24 Aug 2007 at 14:12

1337z0r said:
You could use TVersity and it encodes them on the fly. It works great, just install the Klite codec pack and set it so the codecs play through FDDshow. And then install Tveristy. You can play AVI's then and MPEGS ect.

but then i would need my pc and my ps3 on at the same time, why dont i just watch them on my pc then? i have my HDTV connected to my ps3, 360 and pc, and i have my nec 20wxgx2 pro connected to my pc, i simply wanted to be able to take my ps3 , xbox 360 and hdtv into another room and use both for playing games and watching movies, because if im playing counterstrike, my dad or my bro cant watch any of the movies ive downloaded, same thing happens if im watching a movie, my bro cant play the 360, etc. i guess i could try encoding a movie on the fly whilst playing counterstrike, but i think thats a big no-no

Psycho Sonny · 25 Aug 2007 at 00:38

UEX said:
Why anyone wouldnt just use media center is beyond me, transcode360 and MCE for the win, big time.

Or just buy and chip an xbox1

because then the pc needs to be on for this to work, thats the whole point of the external hard drive, i dont need to have my pc switched on constantly decoding videos and sending them to my consoles, i suppose the good thing is i will only need to encode them once and then i can play them whenever

Psycho Sonny · 25 Aug 2007 at 00:40

Phil99 said:
I tried to convert a movie from h264 to wmv and it wanted 16hrs using tmpg express (A64 @ 2.7GHz)

16 hours now that would be a complete waste of time, im seriously thinking about quad core, get a go q6600 , should hit 3ghz with ease then i have (4x3ghz=12ghz) opposed to (2x3.6ghz=7.2ghz) should take roughly half an hour to decode a movie