JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 So, I've had a PS3 for some time now and have solely used it for gaming(no multiplayer either) and the occasional bluray. The other night I decided that I should dig a little bit deeper into what the PS3 can do. Readin up on it, I'm not interested in port forwarding my wireless router to stream content from my HD. So i do the next best thing since I have a little portable 500gb HD that I barely use. I wipe it, partition it with a 32gb section of fat32 and the rest NTS-whatever the hell. Drop a 350mb tv show on it and away we go. Hey, it works, and quite well. Load up a couple 700mb-1.4gb movies to see if the ps3 recognizes all of them. Yep, still good to go. What's next? Obviously I should try this 11.5gb bluray I "found" to try since I don't own it yet. Yeah. No. Fat32 can only deal with 4gb chunks at a time. What the crap kind of antiquated set up is this? First you limit me to a total of 32gb and then have the stones to further limit that to only being able to deal with 4gb's at a time? Choke on a fat donkey sausage you little bastage, you should be able to deal with anything I feed you. Screw that noise, I'm going to build a HTPC and be done with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metric-man Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 So, I've had a PS3 for some time now and have solely used it for gaming(no multiplayer either) and the occasional bluray. The other night I decided that I should dig a little bit deeper into what the PS3 can do. Readin up on it, I'm not interested in port forwarding my wireless router to stream content from my HD. So i do the next best thing since I have a little portable 500gb HD that I barely use. I wipe it, partition it with a 32gb section of fat32 and the rest NTS-whatever the hell. Drop a 350mb tv show on it and away we go. Hey, it works, and quite well. Load up a couple 700mb-1.4gb movies to see if the ps3 recognizes all of them. Yep, still good to go. What's next? Obviously I should try this 11.5gb bluray I "found" to try since I don't own it yet. Yeah. No. Fat32 can only deal with 4gb chunks at a time. What the crap kind of antiquated set up is this? First you limit me to a total of 32gb and then have the stones to further limit that to only being able to deal with 4gb's at a time? Choke on a fat donkey sausage you little bastage, you should be able to deal with anything I feed you. Screw that noise, I'm going to build a HTPC and be done with it. HA HA I'm sorry for your misfortune, I hate partition hard drives w/ fat32 seemed like a tweek Johnny Mnemonic would use . Blue-ray is sort of anti climatic, I've never be able to distinguish it from a regular DVD quality, maybe it's better audio ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psu_Crash Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Thanks for saving me the trouble. My cousin has been wanting to do the same thing with his PS3 and a portable HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 It really depends on your set up. For my 65" 1080p tv, there's quite a difference. http://www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/t2-sarah-connor-blu-ray-disc-dvd-comp-x1920.jpg As for audio, it again depends on your setup. My audio set up shames movie theaters, so things like lossless trueHD, DTS-HD HR, or PCM audio from bluray sources are vastly different in content than that of Dolby or DTS equipped DVD's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Thanks for saving me the trouble. My cousin has been wanting to do the same thing with his PS3 and a portable HDD. It can still be done, but you have to chop the bluray file into 4gb sections and do some other crap with some other program. Screw that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniSRT4 Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Strictly gaming on mine. So all of this is a foreign language to me. Anyone play COD? My username is Iwrestledyourmom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 The aspect ratio looks off in the blu-ray... I'm still mixed on how I feel about it. I hate seeing anything CGI'd on Blu-ray simply because it just sticks out to the point it looks like it doesn't belong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jisleyjr Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Screw the portable drive nonsense. Look up TVersity and PlayOn. You can just stream your files over the network. I have a Core 2 Duo set up with a 2TB drive that has all my stuff on it. The 2 PS3's in my house can watch what ever is downloaded or stream what ever is on hulu. I tried the HTPC route and it is a pain to find what you wanna watch and navigate around, it does rock though for playing COD or other LAN games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazarin Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Should have bought a 360 - Been watching subbed Bleach eps thru it for months in HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
007 Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Blue ray is awsome, totally changes your movie experience at home. i cant even watch regular dvds anymore. If you can't tell a difference then there setup is wrong. Also my wife and i are hopefully getting a 3d HDTV, seems like all the 3d players are only sold in blue ray, just something i noticed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metric-man Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 Blue ray is awsome, totally changes your movie experience at home. i cant even watch regular dvds anymore. If you can't tell a difference then there setup is wrong. Also my wife and i are hopefully getting a 3d HDTV, seems like all the 3d players are only sold in blue ray, just something i noticed.Yeah, setups not wrong I just don't have mega resolution screen. lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minagera Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 I have two things to offer. One use PS3 Media Server, it is free and I use it daily. http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/ Second, I find that 720p is most accurate for the PS3 media server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0nus Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 You know you can just link your PS3 to another Windows PC on your network and see all of it's media right? I did it with Windows Vista (ewwww) and 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UlrichWolf Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 http://www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/t2-sarah-connor-blu-ray-disc-dvd-comp-x1920.jpg Mmmmmm. Look at that trigger discipline, will you? Good trigger discipline is such a rarity. Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ucw458 Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 (edited) Mmmmmm. Look at that trigger discipline, will you? Good trigger discipline is such a rarity. Tim I know exactly what you mean and I completely agree. Edited September 23, 2010 by ucw458 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiplee Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 You know you can just link your PS3 to another Windows PC on your network and see all of it's media right? I did it with Windows Vista (ewwww) and 7. Yeah that's how I do it. Never thought of forwarding ports and such except for BT files. Playon media server is like $25 for a lifetime and logs me in automatically to hulu, youtube, netflix and several others if I want. It will probably eventually replace our cable tv service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yokomo Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 Sarah Conner will eat your face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 Initially I wanted to shy away from port forwarding to access my media. It was a huge PITA when I tried it for uTorrent, and I never got it set up right(it just sort of fixed itself). I've read that streaming(via any current method) can leave a choppy playback condition. I'm looking into a WDTV at the moment, as it will access the 1TB and 2TB WD mybooks I have with a physical connection, it will also keep my PS3 from being used as much. We'll see though, I might try the TVersity dealie-o if I can set it up easily with my wireless(linksys) router. Port forwarding just makes me go GRRRRR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taquito Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 d00d you dont have to port forward anything do yourself a solid and download PS3 media center or XBMC and use that instead you will love it and as long as your pc is wired in through a switch preferably gigabit you will play blueray files with no problems. Also I want to note that you can actually copy blueray movies to the ps3 hdd through the network takes a while but its possible. Anyone want to add me and get pwned in mw2 my PS3 name is " educatedpapi " pe@ce yall im out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komeuppance Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Haha, I have a modded Xbox (Xbox1 in case you were wondering). I watch all my content from my "server" over my network. Pretty easy to setup, and the remote is great. ... an HTPC would be sweet though. -Robert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Hmmm, I got the port forwarding thing from looking it up online. Is it as simple as running the Internet/wireless setup function through the ps3's settings, and just typing in the wep key? Also, I don't plan to game online or browse the Internet, so do I still have to create a PSN account? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jszucs Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 that was made knowingly as a choice by the PS3 team to cut down on the ablity to rip things to the ps3 like whole games blue ray movies etc. But just grab yourself a modded xbox1 and put it on your network and stream way to the device of your choice as hit on above Way cheaker then the PC you want and works great. can get them for 30 40 bux max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jisleyjr Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Hmmm, I got the port forwarding thing from looking it up online. Is it as simple as running the Internet/wireless setup function through the ps3's settings, and just typing in the wep key? Also, I don't plan to game online or browse the Internet, so do I still have to create a PSN account?Yes, just go through the wireless setup area. I don't think you need a PSN account. Basically with your computer running a media server program, which ever you choose, on the network the PS3 should see it in the Video area. You have to make sure that your computer doesn't have the firewall up, or if you do you have to open ports up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted September 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Yep, just got done with it right now. Basically just needed to keep the network WPA key for security/firewall purposes. I'm using ps3 media server as a program link on my computer to access my files. Holy crap, why did i wait this long to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanta Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Holy crap, why did i wait this long to do this? That's what we want to know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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