Yeah, keeping it ventilated is probably just a good idea in general, so give it a little space.
You can go onto your PC and check what kind of video it is by looking at the properties. The PS3 can play Divx, Xvid (both .avi's), mpeg-4, mpeg-2, and quite a few others. It can't play matroska or something like a vob file unless you change it to an avi. A few other random file types I can't even remember can't be recognized too, but mostly obscure ones.
Every now and then there is just a file that was really badly encoded that it can't read even if it is supported. Some Xvid files you have to copy over to your HDD before it says you can read them. In that case, it will say unsupported if it is on your HDD or won't play, but when you copy it, it works fine.
The playback support is WAY better (and by WAY better I mean at least 10x better) than it used to be, but make sure you have updated the firmware. Otherwise, you won't be able to play just about anything.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
