Sending HD movie to PS3

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

Hi, I've been trying multiple method for this but nothing.

I'm trying to copy a HD movie which is around 8GB in size over to my PS3, what would be the best and most efficient way to do this?

brady · Dec 30, 2010

USB stick all the way!

or

you can do this by using the media sever option, go into internet setting on your ps3 and turn this on, once this is done go on the video menu and click on media sever, you should find your computer and then copy it directly to the ps3.

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

I've tried PS3 Media Server and its great but streaming the HD movie is laggy, so when I copy it instead its pretty slow

any way to make it faster? by tweaking the media server settings at all?

Thanks

brady · Dec 30, 2010

no, transferring 8gig over any kind of home network will be horrible... I suggest using a USB flash drive (obviously over 8gig)

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

I got an external HD, formatted to FAT32 like the PS3 wants but I cant get the file on there, says its too big. :S

brady · Dec 30, 2010

you have an external hd with less than 8Gb of space

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

Its a 250GB, checked it on a Mac to

brady · Dec 30, 2010

is this external used for your mac backups?

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

Nope, its been formatted a couple of times now, checked that its FAT32 each time.

brady · Dec 30, 2010

So when you attempt to copy the HD movie to the external is says it doesn't have enough space available?
Is there 'anything' on the drive?

Can you move a smaller movie to that drive, then to the ps3?

curious to see if it's just the 1 particular movie that it doesn't like.

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

Theres nothing on it, i've tried copying smaller files to the drive, no problems, i'm thinking its because the file is to big, doesn't FAT32 have a limit to the size of file you can copy?

brady · Dec 30, 2010

it's 4Gb = you should get a flash drive

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

So thats why I cant copy it because its 8GB

any other ways of getting it on there?

brady · Dec 30, 2010

If the movie format is split'able, then you can apparently split video and send 2 files to the ps3...

I've seen about a million threads on this re: HD movies on Ps3

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

How would you go about splitting the 2?

brady · Dec 30, 2010

I thought I had read something about software splitting VOB files, but I'm no expert.

Due to the Ps3 being involved I am unable to click these links when searching for playing HD movies on ps3.
Maybe some of these could help more than I can.

Google

beagrie07 · Dec 30, 2010

Alright i'll take a look, thanks

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