PS3 and 360 multimedia capabilities - What files can they play?

[Lone_Canis_Lupus]

DOATS1 said:

akuma587 said:
PS3 is Divx certified and the 360 is not. People who have both say that the PS3 can play back more Divx/Xvid files than the 360 can. I don't think either one can play Quicktime files. The PS3 can use Windows Media Player 11 or Nero to stream just about any file to your TV screen.

The biggest advantage the PS3 has is that it can play more files and you can connect an external HDD to it. I share my internet with four people, and cable has crap for upload, so streaming is out of the question for me. The 360 CANNOT connect to an external HDD.

Once you plug in the external HDD to the PS3, you just hit triangle and click display all on the drive and you can play files directly off it or copy them to your hard drive.

Both should be able to play burned DVD's.

The PS3 can copy stuff right off of a burned DVD/CD directly to the HDD.

Overall the PS3 has better options because it doesn't lock out as many third-party peripherals. Older Ipods work fine with the PS3 (the only ones that don't are the Classic models and the 3G Nanos and maybe the Touch).

akuma, you are making stuff up.

360 CAN connect to an external hdd, i do it to play videos all the time. they only things is that the external hdd MUST be formatted in fat32 at most, it won't work with ntfs, but that is exactly the same with ps3 because ntfs is only recognisable by windows xp and vista. like i said, i own both consoles and i use the external hdd for both of them.

ps3 plays more file formats, BUT, divx is better supported by 360, only 2/3 of my divx collection work on ps3, but they ALL work on my 360. yes, ps3 is divx certified, but that only means they can use divx technology in games. 360 does divx better through my experience.

my girlfriends 2g ipod nano doesn't work well in both mine and her ps3. they work flawlessly on my 360.

you are correct about ps3 being able to rip/transfer music/videos/pictures from any media source to and from it's hdd, whilst the 360 can't, which i find strange and annoying.

You are making stuff up as well. I've kind of skimmed over, but I'm willing to bet you stream your DivX files to your 360 from your PC. If that's the case, it's something like TVersity. It doesn't support the actual DivX format itself, but the Windows Media Player 11 or TVersity converts the file in real time to a format supported by the 360. Same with the PS3 using TVersity. TVersity converts my DivX files into MPEG-1 in real-time when using it with my PS3.

I don't have a 360, but doesn't it only support WMV directly? That's what I've read, that you can only play WMV without streaming. I've looked around online to see if I can get DivX to work on the 360 without streaming because my friend doesn't have the wireless adapter for his 360 to connect to his router and doesn't want to waste his time converting files, but I haven't found anything that doesn't have to deal with streaming the files to the 360.

You can put DivX files directly on the PS3s HDD or external media and play it from the PS3. As well as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. I don't have a 360, so I'm sorry if I have misinformation on it.