Ripped DVD's Not Playable on a PS3

jlacroix · 2010-05-11 02:49:45

Hello again everyone. I posted earlier about ripping all of my DVD collection into AVI files. I have ran the following script and it works very well:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dvd2Avi

However, for some reason I cannot play the ripped AVI on my PS3. It just says "unsupported data". Are there any edits I can make to that script to encode the files properly for PS3?

.:B:. · 2010-05-11 10:02:59

You should check the requirements Sony has for media to play back on the PS3. The requirements are very stringent; only few formats are allowed. AVI is just a container, what matters most is what you put in it (video and audio codec).

jlacroix · 2010-05-11 11:01:55

.:B:. wrote:

You should check the requirements Sony has for media to play back on the PS3. The requirements are very stringent; only few formats are allowed. AVI is just a container, what matters most is what you put in it (video and audio codec).

The thing is I've never had any trouble with any AVI file I threw on there, so I'm not sure why it is a problem. I'm hoping someone else with experience can give some pointers. Sony claims they support both DIVX and XVID, among others.

.:B:. · 2010-05-11 11:03:44

Yes, but not all versions. I have had older DivX AVIs that did not play, for example. Isn't using PS3mediaserver an option? I think that can transcode on the fly if your server is powerful enough, and it saves you the compatibility headaches.

jlacroix · 2010-05-11 12:08:07

.:B:. wrote:

Yes, but not all versions. I have had older DivX AVIs that did not play, for example. Isn't using PS3mediaserver an option? I think that can transcode on the fly if your server is powerful enough, and it saves you the compatibility headaches.

Thanks, but I'd prefer to have all the media on the PS3 hard drive.

zenlord · 2010-05-12 17:24:11

You'll have to figure out what codecs the ps3 natively supports. As said before: 'avi' is merely a container that can contain almost anything: divx 3/4/5/6... xvid... h.264(?) etc. and these are only the video codecs I can come up with. You also need to worry about audio codecs (mp3, ac3, mp2 etc.) and then worry about all the different settings those audio and video codecs have.

If you want to rip for your ps3, than you'll have to document some specific options you might need to use or avoid. But by using google, I think you'll find a whole lot of documentation. It is enough for your rip to be completely/partially unreadable by your ps3 if 1 setting is wrong...

I find it a whole lot easier to set up a server that is able to transcode everything on the fly.

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#1 2010-05-11 02:49:45

Ripped DVD's Not Playable on a PS3

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