Sony state that the PS3 is a media center.  So why is it that when I take a usb full of AVI's they always seem to run in my Xbox 360, but not on my PS3?

I have two HD TV's.  The one that has pride of place in the household gets the PS3 on the basis of it's supposed media abilities.

I currently have a couple of AVI's painstakingly running through an encoding program I downloaded in the hope that it will fix the issue, but I shouldn't have to do that.

What's up?

360 does that too. Many AVI's don't work from usb/dvd. With tversity, most of those files work but they need to be transcoded.

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I'll make a new thread for my whine..

lol

lol?

Try tversity. :)

Ok I will.

Tversity.

I thought you were having a go at me for having a whine.

Often my AVIs don't show, so I just click Triangle and choose "Display All" or whatever the option is called, and suddenly all the AVIs appear and are playable.

Don't know if that's applicable to your situation, but it's just a common solution.

I haven't tried that, I'll give it a go.

Maybe it will sort this out.

PS3 doesn't support all of the codecs out there. I usually have Vuze on my PC and have it open when I want to watch something on PS3. If it isn't compatable, Vuze will convert the file to a format the PS3 can read. The added bonus of this is you don't have to mess around with USB sticks.

Now I feel awfully silly.

My AVI movies work..