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

[Lone_Canis_Lupus]

DOATS1 said:

Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

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.

wait, what? you're telling me i'm making stuff up when i OWN a 360, and you dont? the 360 supports divx NATIVELY. microsoft themselves stated that it does, i play divx files off my external HDD aswell as network streaming, and i don't use tversity, i use windows media center extender, which DOESN't convert. now unless my external hard drive is converting my divx files for me, im pretty certain that 360 supports divx directly. 360 DOES support divx directly.

what? proof i hear you say?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox360/digitalmedia/videoplaybackfaq.htm#avi

 Jeez, no need to get your panties in a wad. I said I didn't own a 360 and that I was sorry if I had some misinformation about it. Not like I said you were stupid or anything. Just said I was googling it out and all I found was on how to stream the damn things, not how to play them directly. As for the PS3 supporting DivX, it supports the format fully. I have yet to see my PS3 not recognize a DivX file.

I've gotten files that wouldn't play, but if you go to information, the PS3 recognizes that it's a DivX file. More often than not, DivX files that won't play on the PS3 are from unsupported audio formats (since the avi format is pretty much a container) or different lengths in the audio and video. That's pretty much the only problem I've had with DivX files on my PS3, some are encoded to where the audio length is longer than the video length so the video only plays for a short time on the PS3.

Not something VirtualDub can't fix though, just put a direct stream copy for the video and audio and change it so the frame rate matches the audio length, and the process is done in like 10 seconds. Pretty easy fix. The DivX format itself is fully supported by the PS3, just can't really handle some weirdly encoded files.