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Well it remains to be seen if they'll at least make it as smooth as Xbox Live's messaging, but if they can match it, or even surpass it, then that might be a good reason to debate Xbox Live's subscription fees. Even so, there's still more XBL players than PS3 Online players, so unless there's a massive shift from one console to the other, MS isn't likely to remove, much less remove the subscription rates.
I'll say one thing though, messaging should be a much easier practice on PS3, as long as they allow the use of USB-plugged keyboards (I happen to have a wireless one).
I'm still hoping they'll use one of my wishes for custom soundtracks. It's still cumbersome on the 360, since I have to bring up the slider and stop whatever game I'm playing to change the track in a shuffling list of music. Being able to switch tracks without stopping the game would make a big difference, but I especially hope they'll allow you to change the music for PS2 games. I've already thought up a whole playlist for Kingdom Hearts II, for instance, including these two tracks I ripped from Shinomura's Drammatica album. I used Audacity to split the tracks, then create a loop to make them longer. It's not perfect, but they make for kickass RPG boss themes.
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I realize this is old, but what is halkun talking about? What higher quality format? I encode using h264 what higher quality is there? Here is the script I use to encode movies for my psp.
#!/bin/bash function useage { echo "psp.sh framrate input output" exit } if [ "$1" = "" ]; then useage; fi if [ "$2" = "" ]; then useage; fi if [ "$3" = "" ]; then useage; fi echo "work" ffmpeg -y -i $2 -f mp4 -pass 1 -vcodec h264 -level 21 -s 480x272 -r $1 -b 762k -bt 768k -bufsize 4000k -maxrate 4000k -g 250 -coder 1 /dev/null && ffmpeg -y -i $2 -f mp4 -pass 2 -vcodec h264 -level 21 -s 480x272 -r $1 -b 762k -bt 768k -bufsize 4000k -maxrate 4000k -g 250 -coder 1 -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 96k $3Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
I just wish that konami had taken advantage of PSN. On one hand it's awsome that sony lets devs do they're own thing. On the other MGObeta with out a doubt was the biggest mess on the ps3 online I've seen. Actualy 2nd worst lego starwars online coop still dosn't work at all.
When PSN gets built-in matchmaking stuff like TrueSkill, the feedback system, and the zones I'll worry about my <$1 per week.
Really? You're still willing to pay £40 a year for a matchmaking system? A matchmaking system? Oh, and a comments box.
Bah, c'mon DW. Did you read the OP, don't turn this into a flamewar. Please.
But really custom soundtracks are the best thing ever, glad to see the PS3 finally getting them. In game messaging is pretty cool, but the custom soundtracks is where its at.
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I'm not flaming. I'm actually stunned that he said he was still willing to pay hard earned cash for a system that by all accounts should have been free long ago, even before the PSN. I just don't consider a matchmaking node system worth 40 regardless of how it is spread out over the course of the year. You can say its 17p a day, its still money.
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Not like it'll change anything for you Mista... You WoWhead.
I wanted the same thing. And I remembered back in August seeing adapters to use PS2 controllers on a PS3, with buttons specificlly for GH 1 and 2. But they are nowhere to be seen these days so I did some digging. Apparently it is in fact a firmware issue, at least for GH2. The adapter worked fine with GH1, but has issues with GH2, issues which the adapter makers could not fix and claimed were firmware issues.
So I don't see it happening unless Harmonix releases a PS3 guitar that will work with GH 1 and 2 (or Red Octane for that matter0, or Sony fixes the firmware (which probably won't happen, they probably aren't aware of or concerned with this issue).
Makes me wish I'd just bought a 40g and a PS2 sometimes. Sometimes.
I still play my PS3... just not as much. This will change when MGS4 comes out... at least for awhile.
One thing that also keeps me on the service that Sony can't offer in any way is reliability as far as server availability. With the exception of stupid EA and their stupid exceptions, and a couple MMOish type games, every Live game from the launch of the service still has servers up and available. It may be hard to find players on most of them, but I can still get a game on somewhere and know that I can pop the game in, jump into a game with PA friends or Arcadians, and I will be able to play it. I can't think of any PS2 games, even huge releases like the original MG:O that I can say that about. It's reliable for damned near everything I still want to play, and that alone makes it more worthwhile than PSN, and worth the money. I'll definitely admit it's a bit over priced, especially when this update is released, and if the update is reliable/usable across all games, but again, I do still think it's worth the cash.
Fair enough. I couldn't justify it on that basis, the part I love so much about PSN is that I don't really do online but I don't mind dipping in every now and again. 40 for that just wouldn't be worth it. The thing with the servers though, aren't you and everyone you're playing with doing most of the work? From my understanding its the ISP you pay for and the console you own that are doing all the hard stuff and all the servers are doing is acting as a node to find other people to play hte game with you.
also this is old but
i use tversity media server and it converts just about anything on the fly. havent come across anything it hasnt been able to handle yet.
my own personal firmware wish is headset volume controls. seems simple enough, heres hoping its lumped in with the xmb/friendlist stuff.
The headset that comes with warhawk has volume controls.
Can't wait for the update either way.
Anyone else wish we would get a firmware update that would allow us to play PSone and PStwo Imports? If a firmware update could even do that and of course Backwards compatablity would have to be re-instated.
Still that would be sweet :winky:.
I've explained this before. The way the current PS3 OS works is that it unloads itself whenever you begin an application. That is, when you start a game, the OS ceases to run. This update will instead load the OS into the 8th core and keep it running at all times.
Games like SSHD have custom soundtrack options built into the game. This update will instead let you play your music from the XMB while you're playing a game.
In short, yes, all games will have custom soundtracks.
Mediatomb is *ok* .. but I could use some conversion on the fly
How about an easy way to convert mkv files? will ffmpeg work?
and can anyone PLEASE tell me how to sort the list by alphabet.. with upper and lower mixed in.. or do i need to rename everything ?
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fuppes supposedly does transcoding but I've never gotten it to work. As a bare bones media server is great, though.
This is guide about specifically enabling transcoding with fuppes for a PS3. I'm gonna give it a go.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
I have fuppes now, but it doesn't seem to want to compile..at least the version from the latest SVN, which i seem to want considering large file support.
mediatomb supports on the fly encoding.. but it seems to be broken by the latest FW
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don't we need large file support for the > 1gb files ?
EDIT: nevermind... the stable version is fine for large file support. They just haven't updated the front page to reflect the latest build vs stable.
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Sorry TSR but you're pretty wrong there. The eighth core has been disabled to improve chip yields, in case a Cell chip is produced with a defective core, and it will never be used (otherwise all the PS3's with one defective core will be useless). And why would they do that anyway? The seventh core has already been dedicated to the XMB, as has some RAM (it was initially around 64MB at launch but they've reduced it since then). SSHD actually does use the XMB to access custom soundtracks, as you can see when you scroll through the music.
The problem with the XMB, was that it wasn't really designed to do anything while games were actually running, which is why they've had so much trouble getting it to work.
Sort of like how you could save replays in Halo 3 and upload them to bungees servers then share them with people, except with every PS3 game and youtube.
Again, it's only a rumor, but if this is true then that is AWESOME.
If it basically allows any sort of footage to be uploaded without any of the hassle of capture cards or whatnot, consider me very excited.
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Until Sony confirms it, I'm calling it a rumor to avoid rabble rabble.
But yes, I know it's basically confirmed. and damn am I excited.
reportedly, the firmware update captures and records video at 640x480, so it wouldn't be too ambitious. Considering the amount of video sharing you're going to be able to do with Home, I don't think it's too much of a stretch.
If this update delivers on everything it's been hyped up to be (rumor is accomplishments are also dropping, with a patch that'll add support for about 70% of the current PS3 library) then it could be the best update the PS3 has received thus far.
EDIT: And to some extent it IS coming. PixelJunk confirmed that Eden will have it, and they claim that they didn't code it, but rather that it's "a standard playstation function from an update." hence the reason people speculate that 2.40 will allow you to record video.
youtube is suddenly going to have a lot more videos of nathan drake running around in circles
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