After much searching I’m unable to find a simple reliable method to get video into a format that the PS3 can recognise and play. But I do have a recipe that works in the majority of cases.<\/p>\n
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The magic combination that seems to work well is an AVI format<\/a> file with DivX<\/a> for video, MP3<\/a> for audio, and a fourCC<\/a> code of DX50. I use the MEncoder<\/a> tool to convert video into this format:<\/p>\n -o sets the output file name There are many other options to tweak the encoding process but this seems to be a minimal set of options that works most of the time.<\/p>\n Of course, I still need to get the files to the PS3. Serving files over the network with UPnP<\/a> works some of the time. But I’ve had so many problems with that method that I’ve resorted to physically transferring the files on USB storage<\/a>. And even here there are problems. To get the PS3 to recognise the files you must place them in a folder on the device called named VIDEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After much searching I’m unable to find a simple reliable method to get video into a format that the PS3 can recognise and play. But I do have a recipe that works in the majority of cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powered-up-games.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmencoder input.avi -o output.avi -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -ffourcc DX50
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\n-ovc lavc sets the video encoder which defaults to producing DivX
\n-oac mp3lame sets the audio encoder to mp3
\n-ffourcc DX50 sets the 4 letter character code that the PS3 reads to identify the file<\/p>\n