Thread: WHS, Win 7, and a PS3

Does anyone know what a compatible format for both a PS3 and Win 7? I'm trying to setup my WHS to stream to my other systems so I can rip all of the DVDs I own for storge on the server.

If I straight rip the DVD (Without converting it to a different format), the PS3 won't see it but I can stream to Win 7, although each movie takes up ~4Gb (Would like to get this down to 1Gb per movie if possible). If I rip it to a format the PS3 can see, it won't work in Win 7.

I'm trying to do this without having to download codecs from sites I don't trust and they look questionable.

Originally Posted by Cybs

Does anyone know what a compatible format for both a PS3 and Win 7? I'm trying to setup my WHS to stream to my other systems so I can rip all of the DVDs I own for storge on the server.

If I straight rip the DVD (Without converting it to a different format), the PS3 won't see it but I can stream to Win 7, although each movie takes up ~4Gb (Would like to get this down to 1Gb per movie if possible). If I rip it to a format the PS3 can see, it won't work in Win 7.

I'm trying to do this without having to download codecs from sites I don't trust and they look questionable.

I get a lot of x264 endcoded .mkv HD video files. There is a program called mkv2vob which will convert them to a .mpg that the PS3 can read. Streaming is a bitch to work with though, if you want to pause or rewind the video it is just so slow. I have a bunch of 8GB CF and SDHC cards, so I just use them as transport devices to carry video from my PC to PS3, I find it much easier to watch them that way... or you could copy them from your PC to PS3 over the network, but that takes even longer.

One thing is that when I open a folder with the .mpg's in it, the PS3 will say no video files found... but if you hit triangle on the folder and "view all" you will see them, and they will open fine.

PS3 can also read H.264/MPEG-4 with a .mp4 extension... which is a pretty common way that people rip movies to media file.

There are some issues with my method though, I think PS3 can't read NTFS file system, IIRC... so I had to format my 8GB cards with FAT, and if something needs more than 2GB or 4GB (whichever the FAT limit is, I forget) I had to create set of media files for the one long movie. I'm a little hazy on all the details in this last paragraph..