Although PS3 can handle a large number of codecs, however, there are still some particular file formats with the codecs that PS3 fail to decode or recogize. Don't worry, this codec incompatible issue can be easily addressed with a powerful media conversion program.
Free Trial Free Trial. Connect your usb flash drive or external hard drive to one of the two usb ports at the front of your Playstation 3. Turn on your Ps3. Go in the main menu to "Video" to play a video or movie stored on your USB flash drive.
Press with the X button of your controller on the video, movie to play or view. Turn on your playstation 3. Press with the X button of your controller on the video, movie, song or picture to play or view.
Free Trial Buy now. File types can be played on PS3 Before going any further, make sure that the files moved to your USB flash drive should be included in PS4 supported file types listed as below. Now that you're all learn-ed on the ways of video encoding thanks to Matt's Giz Explains from this week , the issue of codecs will make a lot more sense. Thankfully, it's not something you have to worry too much about here, because all three consoles can handle a large number of the codecs you will find commonly: AVI, MPEG 1, 2 and 4 , H.
Not all formats are supported with every streaming method though, especially in the 's case, which we'll get to in a second. Now, for getting all those files on the TV. Note: if you need to re-encode a video in a different format because it won't play, nothing beats VLC's transcoding wizard.
Here's a guide. In typical Microsoft fashion, there are tons of different ways to pull of streaming your video to the Xbox —and the only one that's truly comprehensive, in our opinion, comes from a third party.
TVersity is a free UPnP media server that can manage your video and music files anywhere on your PC and stream them out to your over the network. It will also kindly transcode just about any video you can throw at it into a codec your console can definitely read. You might have to install some additional codec packs here and there for Windows but for the most part, you can forget about worrying about codecs with TVersity.
Grab TVersity here and install it. Click the giant plus sign in the top left corner to "Add Your Media Source" - namely, the folder on your PC with all of your videos. Under advanced options, set your transcoding preferences: "When Needed" will make sure most all of your files play. In the main TVersity menu, select "Start Sharing" 5. The other three options via Microsoft's own various software solutions all have their own drawbacks, which we'll cover here briefly. Our advice? Here is an in-depth guide.
Somewhat clunky format support. In our tests we could not stream Quicktime video at all, and had inconsistent experiences with MP4 files. MPEG-4 and H. This worked occasionally, but not for every file and was generally inconsistent.
Zune Software 3. No DivX or Xvid support, which means a huge chunk of your Torrented video probably won't work. Windows Media Center Extender : If you already have a Media Center setup honking on your network, there's a good chance you won't need this guide, but the Xbox can of course stream your MCE content to your TV seamlessly a complete guide is here.
The interface is really fantastic. So unless you're converting everything you have into those formats, you'll still need something like TVersity to play most files you'll find up for download. So, in the end, TVersity wins hands down as the easiest and most elegant streaming setup for the But do keep in mind—if you're playing a format that your Xbox can't handle MKV being the most common of these you'll find , TVersity will have to transcode, which means you will lose a bit of quality.
Xbox Streaming Mac : UPnP support—the networking standard used by both the Xbox and the PS3 in various flavors to play network-streamed video, music and photos—is not natively supported by OS X yet.
And unfortunately, there isn't a stellar all-in-one free package like Windows' TVersity. Nullriver, however, makes an incredibly slick piece of software called Connect , which easily streams all of your iLife libraries or any folder full of video on your Mac to the There is a free trial version that supposedly shuts off after 30 minutes of sharing, but sometimes it seems to forget and lets you play longer.
No transcoding, but it will handle every codec the console itself can play back. Download and install the Connect preference pane.
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