Actually, you'd be suprised at the amount of stuff on torrent that is actually legal. Of course, a large proportion is illegal, but it's definately more than just 1% of torrents that are legal. More like 30%. And he could have made/burnt the vids himself

Yea I put a lot of acquired movies and TV shows on my PS3 for easy viewing. So I run into these format issues every so often.

I use Java ps3 media server to stream video to my ps3.

Though I have to disconnect from the internet otherwise the video lag will make it unwatchable.

Disconnect your computer? Or the PS3? I only get lag when trying to watch 1080p material with subtitles.

Actually theres a lot of video that are illegal but do not cause any prejudice to the publisher. Example can be a movie that was filmed back in 1990 that you are no longer able to find and purchase new. Another example would be a japanese movie that was never release in the west. So there is a lot of things that are politically correct to download even if its illegal.

I have two routers, internet comes in to the other one and it has only 1 ethernet port. the ethernet cable goes to the other lan-router which has 4 ethernet ports.

My ps3 and pc are both linked to the lan-router via ethernet cables. Everytime I want to watch something I just shut down the internet-router. So it won't suck the network speed.

And I can stream 1080p videos with subs too with no lag now.

Gigabit LAN router? Or you just set a limit on the Mbit/s?

I have some files that try to play back at about 200 Mbit/s...

the router is speedstream 5450, with four 10/100 Mbps ethernet ports.

I use Best Quality settings for the video playback and I have not limited the speeds.

Guess I'll just play with the setup to see what I can do.

In this case he would've also been able to choose the encoding...