| jefforange89 said: So, with respect to video playback on PS3s, since I don't own one myself, I had a few questions: - Can I play back video files off of, say, any form of USB storage, or memory card on PS3s that have card readers (wasn't that taken out in certain models? I don't remember off-hand...)? - And if so, what formats and codecs are supported? Particularly, can I play x264 .mkv files, and XviD .avis? |
complicated, but lets begin
the PS3 can read off any usb based media provided the media is formatted in FAT or FAT32.
NTFS formatted external hard drives can't be read by the PS3 as NTFS is a MS proprietry technology unfortunately so a NTFS HDD will need to be reformatted into FAT32 before use.
If your PS3 has no card readers, you can plug an external card reader into your PS3 and use the cards in that without issue.
.mkv files do not play at the moment, and nor do .flv files play from HDD
It does play divx/xvid .avi', mov, mp4 etc.
here's a list from http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/video/filetypes.html
Types of files that can be played
The following types of files can be played under 
(Video).
- Memory Stick Video Format
- - MPEG-4 SP (AAC LC)
- - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile （AAC LC）
- - MPEG-2 TS（H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, AAC LC）
- MP4 file format
- - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (AAC LC)
- MPEG-1 (MPEG Audio Layer 2)
- MPEG-2 PS (MPEG2 Audio Layer 2, AAC LC, AC3(Dolby Digital), LPCM)
- MPEG-2 TS（MPEG2 Audio Layer 2, AC3（Dolby Digital）, AAC LC）
- MPEG-2 TS（H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, AAC LC）
- AVI
- - Motion JPEG (Linear PCM)
- - Motion JPEG (μ-Law)
- AVCHD （.m2ts / .mts）
- DivX
- WMV
- - VC-1（WMA Standard V2）
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