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how can i move a 29 gb movie onto ps3 hard drive
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jaynecobb
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21. April 2009 @ 17:33 |
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hi all.
i have a 29 gb hd file of "trainspotting" that i would like to add to my ps3 hard drive.
unfortunately i cannot play the file over my network and cannot copy it either. i get about 45% of the file copied before i get an error - 800**** or something similar.
i have used the mkv2vob and made the file an mpeg at the highest quality.
the bizarre thing is that the original mkv file was only 7.9 gb, and the final transmuxed file is 29 gb. is that normal?
thanks to all that can help!!
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21. April 2009 @ 22:05 |
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Not 'normal', but not unusual - visual and audio quality is always lost in a transcode, so to keep it at a minimum the resultant file can be larger than the original... I once had a 300MB file that turned into 1.5GB, but lowering the quality slightly brought it back to 300MB again.
I can't however suggest a better way for copying the file, but have you tried playing it straight from the flash drive / hard drive or whatever you're using to copy it across?
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method545
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21. April 2009 @ 22:51 |
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Originally posted by jaynecobb:
hi all.
i have a 29 gb hd file of "trainspotting" that i would like to add to my ps3 hard drive.
unfortunately i cannot play the file over my network and cannot copy it either. i get about 45% of the file copied before i get an error - 800**** or something similar.
i have used the mkv2vob and made the file an mpeg at the highest quality.
the bizarre thing is that the original mkv file was only 7.9 gb, and the final transmuxed file is 29 gb. is that normal?
thanks to all that can help!!
Regarding the large file size...are you encoding subtitles with mkv2vob? If so, try going under the configuration tab and select "none" for preferred subtitle language.
As far as copying large files onto your PS3, there's only one way I know how, which is over network. The PS3 hard drive has a FAT32 format, which only allow up to 4 gb file transfer. To get around it, I use Tversity to set up a media server. Then I hook up the PS3 to my router with a ethernet cable (wireless is just too slow) and copy the file from media server (Tversity). Check out their website for more instructions. Good luck!
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21. April 2009 @ 23:16 |
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PS3 Harddrive is formatted in FAT32? I've read lots of other post/articles saying otherwise. Also, there is the fact that you can download/install 1GB+ demos off the PS store. Not sure about the errors that you're getting, but i highly doubt it's the hdd. The tversity method (or other media server apps that have this feature) does sound like something you could try, though.
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KajNrig
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22. April 2009 @ 00:43 |
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First off, the PS3 hard drive is NOT formatted to FAT32.
Let's see that again: the PS3 hard drive is NOT formatted to FAT32.
It uses a format that Sony developed specifically for the PS3. Most files have a 4GB size limit, for sure, but .m2ts files can exceed that limit without a problem.
So what you can do is remux your video/audio to .m2ts and stream it to your PS3's hard drive. If you've got subtitles you want to put on there and such, though, then you'll need to re-encode the video to hardsub those subs onto it.
I'd suggest you use tsMuxer to mux the .mkv to .m2ts (this only replaces the "box" that the video/audio are in, not the video/audio themselves, which means you'll keep 100% of the quality). The only drawback is that, like I said above, there is no subtitle support in the .m2ts container. You'll have to hardsub them into the video.
Hope that helps.
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jaynecobb
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22. April 2009 @ 13:33 |
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Regarding the large file size...are you encoding subtitles with mkv2vob? If so, try going under the configuration tab and select "none" for preferred subtitle language.
As far as copying large files onto your PS3, there's only one way I know how, which is over network. The PS3 hard drive has a FAT32 format, which only allow up to 4 gb file transfer. To get around it, I use Tversity to set up a media server. Then I hook up the PS3 to my router with a ethernet cable (wireless is just too slow) and copy the file from media server (Tversity). Check out their website for more instructions. Good luck!
is tversity a more reliable faster way to stream than just having the ps3 find my network and streaming/copying from there?
i have the ps3 wired into a homeplug network setup (uses the powerlines for a "wired" connection). so technically i am streaming over a wired connection, but this file konks out at aroung 45%.
i was able to copy my sin city mpeg (about 3 gb) no problem, but this 29 gb-er is giving me fits.
thanks again!
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KajNrig
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22. April 2009 @ 14:05 |
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You don't need to keep that 29GB file. (Besides, that's like... almost half a factory PS3 hard drive. Yikes.)
You can use tsMuxer to remux the original 7-8GB .mkv to .m2ts and then transfer that to the PS3 through your wired media server.
That is, of course, assuming that your video codec is h264 and your audio is something other than DTS.
What are the video/audio streams in your .mkv container? (You can check this by using MKVExtractGUI along with mkvtoolnix to open up the file.)
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jaynecobb
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22. April 2009 @ 15:35 |
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Originally posted by KajNrig:
You don't need to keep that 29GB file. (Besides, that's like... almost half a factory PS3 hard drive. Yikes.)
You can use tsMuxer to remux the original 7-8GB .mkv to .m2ts and then transfer that to the PS3 through your wired media server.
That is, of course, assuming that your video codec is h264 and your audio is something other than DTS.
What are the video/audio streams in your .mkv container? (You can check this by using MKVExtractGUI along with mkvtoolnix to open up the file.)
the original file was 7gb, after remuxing to mpeg h264 (best quality) it became 29gb.
this is a bluray rip.
i have a 320gb hard drive, so i'm not worried about the space at the moment.
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KajNrig
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22. April 2009 @ 16:01 |
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What you did was convert it. You didn't simply "remux" it; remuxing means you don't change the makeup of the video/audio. When you converted it to high-quality mpeg, you changed the makeup of the video/audio, which is why it got bigger in size. Remuxing only changes the container they're in, so you'll get, at max, a 10-20MB difference in filesize.
But anyway, you can take either file (the 7GB or the 29GB) and remux it to .m2ts and transfer it to your PS3 through your media server. (TVersity functions more or less like the media server you're currently using.)
Hope that helps.
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