PS3 / XBOX360 v HTPC

[shadowmaster]

Not really, FAT32 inherently limit file size to 4GB.

You can transfer files to the PS3 that are bigger then 4gb but you cant do it over an external hard disk afaik it can only recognise fat32 external hard drives.

So if you want to transfer a 4gb+ movie you would have to stream it over, or transfer it via wifi.

[Blastuk]

i wouldn't recommend tversity or any other on the fly transcoders from first hand experience, it is much much better just to have a htpc and stream the files over that way and let it decode the files itself.

some annoying things about tversity>
no soft subs, there is a very convoluted work around to this and even then it will only work on external sub files, not embedded.

you can't fast forward, well you can but not if that part of the file hasn't been transcoded yet
for me it freezes the playback on the xbox360 when i try to rewind/ffw

on my current system it puts both cores up to 100% to watch anything so if you usually use your computer for something else then that might be a bad point.

it is still a bit buggy and can crash in some circumstances.

if you don't want to spend money and you already have a pc and ps3/xbox360 hooked up to a network then it's free to try.

if you're gonna spend money anyway then you might aswell build a decent htpc and hook that up to the tv and stream over your network.

[TooNice]

You can transfer files to the PS3 that are bigger then 4gb but you cant do it over an external hard disk afaik it can only recognise fat32 external hard drives.

So if you want to transfer a 4gb+ movie you would have to stream it over, or transfer it via wifi.

Doesn't the internal drive also use FAT32? Whenever I see guides regarding swapping the internal drive with a larger one, it usually states that the new drive would need to be formatted in FAT32.

[Golden Dragoon]

Doesn't the internal drive also use FAT32? Whenever I see guides regarding swapping the internal drive with a larger one, it usually states that the new drive would need to be formatted in FAT32.

I think the ps3 reformat the drive using some sort of linux\unix file system, but am not 100% on that.

[Teamsreth]

I have both a PS3, which I did use for streaming, (And a few games ) and my old desktop hooked up to the TV in the lounge.

The PS3 is fine with streaming, using Tversity, and obviously plays games fine. But the web browser is , erm, I am not allowed to swear right? Suffice it to say, the ps3 is only used for games.

To stream to the PS3, means having my pc on, the ps3 on, and the TV. This is very power hungry.

To use the old pc/media centre, I have that and the TV on, I can play older games, surf the net, use the iplayer/itvplayer/youtube and so on, watch films off of the HDD, straight from DVD, get emails, and fold. All at the same time.

And the other drawbacks that blastuk mentions are very annoying.

[shadowmaster]

Doesn't the internal drive also use FAT32? Whenever I see guides regarding swapping the internal drive with a larger one, it usually states that the new drive would need to be formatted in FAT32.

The PS3 doesn't use a fat32 system for its internal hard drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sNOMp1K2NA

i wouldn't recommend tversity or any other on the fly transcoders from first hand experience, it is much much better just to have a htpc and stream the files over that way and let it decode the files itself.

I dont know about tversity, but PS3MediaServer works extremely well. I dont have any trouble streaming over hd content.