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does the ps3 do THIS?! (thinking of getting one)
vegas-steven
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Hey...
So the wife and I were on the fence. We either hunt down an apple tv or we get a ps3.
she loves stuff like heavenly sword and god of war, i wanna play uncharted etc etc...
anyhow, we were going towards an apple tv for its netflix capability. now i see that the ps3 has a non disc netflix option.
now i am wondering:
1. does the ps3 play mkv files that are 720p. (the type you get from the internet, you know... educational public domain stuff, certainly not hollywood films and the like) or does it SUCK like my 360 at that and require long and painful conversions... finding ready to play HD WMV files is bull.
2. does it go online in a web browser? does the ps3 have one ready go to like opera on the wii? does this cost extra (like buying a browser or service?)
i know google has videos of the browser, and there are of course people who chat about the mkv capabilities, but honestly sometimes the best place to go is a place like here where i can just ask these two questions and hope to get a good answer.
i dont want to hack this thing, just get a good all in one box... cant be bothered to hack this thing. i just want it to work.
thanks!
*and yes i am the guy who complains a lot, as someone here always points out lol.
So the wife and I were on the fence. We either hunt down an apple tv or we get a ps3.
she loves stuff like heavenly sword and god of war, i wanna play uncharted etc etc...
anyhow, we were going towards an apple tv for its netflix capability. now i see that the ps3 has a non disc netflix option.
now i am wondering:
1. does the ps3 play mkv files that are 720p. (the type you get from the internet, you know... educational public domain stuff, certainly not hollywood films and the like) or does it SUCK like my 360 at that and require long and painful conversions... finding ready to play HD WMV files is bull.
2. does it go online in a web browser? does the ps3 have one ready go to like opera on the wii? does this cost extra (like buying a browser or service?)
i know google has videos of the browser, and there are of course people who chat about the mkv capabilities, but honestly sometimes the best place to go is a place like here where i can just ask these two questions and hope to get a good answer.
i dont want to hack this thing, just get a good all in one box... cant be bothered to hack this thing. i just want it to work.
thanks!
*and yes i am the guy who complains a lot, as someone here always points out lol.
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1) no, you have to convert it
2) yes, it's free, it's opera based
i dont want to pay microsoft anymore for xbox live. if i can do netflix for the $9 a month i pay for it already i will do that on the ps3.
read an article here for how to convert them
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Play-MKV-Files-On-Playstation-3
hope it isnt a long process but if it is, cest la vie.
thanks, good to know there is an opera based browser.
i look at it as $99 for the appletv vs $299 for an entire game console. if money werent tight everywhere, it would be an impulse buy heh.
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Now, what's extra-awesome about it is the PS3 won't natively play .mkv files, but for some reason if I stream them from my PC through the PS3, they'll play just fine on my big TV.
No need for converting, no need for copying files to the console. Very handy.
Edit: also, I'm quite fond of the PS3's web browser-particularly the zoom feature - but it doesn't handle all video players off webpages. It handles most, and YouTube is no problem, but it won't play GTTV vids, or vids embedded on Kotaku.
You should check out a bit of software called PS3 media server (not the most inventive title I realise). It allows you to play video and music files located on your pc on your ps3, providing they're both on the same network.
It worked an absolute charm for me. Simply run it on your pc, choose the folders with your "educational clips" in, boot the ps3, go to videos and you'll find them all under the ps3 media server icon.
The only issue with it can be bandwidth, if you're running both pc and ps3 on g level wireless then with high def you may get some stuttering, especially with lots of action on the screen. On LAN or n level wireless mine runs flawlessly at 720, haven't tried any 1080 yet though. If you are getting some lag, there are settings to mess around with which aren't complicated at all.
I can't really recommend this software enough. Oh did I mention it's multi platform (Java based) and completely free?
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
i think i read you also need that mkv2vob installed but it sounds straight forward.
does it require your pc to transcode the videos? i have two (three, not including my mac) computers but the more powerful one is the laptop (quad core i5) and the one that is wired is a dual core 2ghz core2 duo.
i have no problem using the wired to the network core2 if it will work but it only has 2 gigs of ram in it so windows 7 doesnt even like using stuff like photoshop as it is.
so again after i meander all over the place to ask this question:
is the video transcoded on the pc and sent over the network, or are these mkv files just playing on the ps3 via some trick.
http://www.youtube.com/vegassteven
Also, diskless netflix is coming Oct 18.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/pablocampy
MP4 files behave oddly in the WMP library, so you may need to delete them from Other Media and add them back manually (drag the files into your WMP library.) I don't mind it because I don't care to install additional media sharing software.
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Just so you know, 360s pick up the ps3 media server too. Everyone in our house with a 360 or a ps3 streams movies from my ps3 media server with almost no set-up or upkeep required on my part besides turning it on. The only thing I've noticed is the ps3s seem (anecdotal) to be better streaming 1080p than the 360s do
microsoft is very closed to foriegn formats.
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So generally I just use the 360, since it doesn't take 15 minutes to open folders. And when you're navigating down a long tree it's annoying.
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Same. If I ever have the TV on, it's because I'm doing something else in the room and I can't be bothered to put on some music.
Think it'll do the same for PS3 too
m2ts files seem to work as well for me (though I can't remember off the top of my head whether that's due to the divx codecs or some kind of fiddling with tversity I did).
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Seems like a good thread to ask, does anyone else use a NAS with their console? Generally it works great but of course I can't stream mkv files since it's a direct stream (as opposed to converting on the fly.) One day I should look into a "ps3 media server variant" that can be installed on the NAS but I don't have enough mkv files to bother :P
Eh...not so much, from a practical, real-life standpoint. Both consoles require dedicated streaming programs to be remotely useful.
PS3Mediaserver will handle most of your streaming needs after you configure the correct audio and subtitle channels (if you have that sort of thing).
Interestingly, it also works on Xbox 360! In fact, the Xbox 360 is superior in the area of streaming options (you have more, and they tend to work better, such as TVersity). If you're getting a PS3 just for that reason, which I can't imagine you are, you're taking a rather expensive route.
Mine won't play anything other than AVI and WMV.
If you use TVersity it will convert any video format on the fly and play it on the 360.
Though it may take some time and effort to get subtitles in an MKV to show up. Unless they fixed that recently.
My MAJOR complaint about TVersity is that it uses a TON of CPU resources. If my friend is watching a tv show I can't use my computer at all to play a game. It takes ~90%.
Given that my TV was in another room, I never had the issue of wanting to play a game whilst streaming. Not that I can remember.
The best solution is to have Netflix get every TV show known to man and allow it to stream. Fixes my problem immediately.
have you ever tried to use your computer that way? you cant really max out the video on the monitor if you do it that way, its a fullscreen issue, so if i want to do work on my pc (which means photoshop most of the time) it is impractical.
plus this set up is for her (my wife), not me. trying to make it easy for her to watch movies.
http://www.youtube.com/vegassteven
My friend is planning to buy a PS3. She is in no rush, and wonders if there is any likelihood of a sale or discount or anything for the system. Does this happen? When/what/how to plan for?
She could take or leave the Move, if that matters.
Thanks.
Generally though $300 is as cheap as it's going to get for a new PS3.