Ok, I have a lot of large .m2ts files that I want to play on my PS3. They reside on my external hard drive on my PC which is formatted NTFS because the files are larger than 4GB.
How can I get these files onto a medium that the PS3 will play?
Obviously I can't plug the NTFS formatted external drive to the PS3 because it won't recoganize NTFS partitions.
I can't stream them because it just gets choppy instantly.
Some of these files are smaller than 8GB, so could I put them on a UDF DL-DVD ?? I'm not sure if the PS3 would read an 8GB file on a UDF format dual layer.
And for the .m2ts files that are larger than 8GB, I guess I'm just going to have to wait for BluRay burners (and their blank media) to come down in price? Other options??
1.) Plenty of ways - dual-layer DVDs, split files, streaming to the PS3 hard drive (among others).
2.) Yes, a UDF dual-layer DVD will work just fine.
3.) No, you don't have to wait. If you've got tsMuxer (yes, you hate it, but it's been good to me), you can split the files into 4GB chunks and copy them onto the PS3's HDD that way (or throw them onto a fat32 partition of your external drive). Or, if you're willing, you can also stream the content to your PS3's hard drive, which can store files larger than 4GB. The only issue is that you'd probably run out of room pretty fast. 20, 40, 60, 80 Gigs run out pretty fast when you're sticking 10... or 20GB chunks of data onto them.
Originally posted by KajNrig: 1.) Plenty of ways - dual-layer DVDs, split files, streaming to the PS3 hard drive (among others).
2.) Yes, a UDF dual-layer DVD will work just fine.
3.) No, you don't have to wait. If you've got tsMuxer (yes, you hate it, but it's been good to me), you can split the files into 4GB chunks and copy them onto the PS3's HDD that way (or throw them onto a fat32 partition of your external drive). Or, if you're willing, you can also stream the content to your PS3's hard drive, which can store files larger than 4GB. The only issue is that you'd probably run out of room pretty fast. 20, 40, 60, 80 Gigs run out pretty fast when you're sticking 10... or 20GB chunks of data onto them.
THanks for the reply! Yah I wouldn't want to store big 20GB m2ts files on the PS3's drive. I like all my movies on mobile media like DVDs anyway. I never knew tsMuxer could split files, so I'll go that route, and put them onto DL_DVDs for the time being until the cost of Bluray burners (and their blank discs) come down. Heck when I bought my first DVD writer blank discs were $20 a piece, so it's only a matter of time.
