Suggestions/recommendations for media playback device?

[therock003]

Since i'm watching a lot of video files lately i would like an exclusive solution on a device in order to watch media regularly. Wjhat i require is.

A)Portabillity
B)Full HD support (Smooth playback)
C)Rich AV codec support. Undoubtedly mpeg-4 ASP (xvid/divx) & AVC (mkv container).
D)Subtitle support (SUB/SMI/SRT/VobSUB).
E)Full Outputs (Composite/Component/DVI).
F)USB support

-Since i need to carry this around to the place i go on weekends i need it to be portable.So i guess building achepa HTPC would require me to carry both the case and the monitor whci would be inconvient.
-Laptops would be a good solution but an expensive one.I've already got two so getting one solely for media playback would be incovenient. + i'd have to carry an external monitor for hd files.
-PS3 only plays files i'm interested in from media servers as far as i know so i would have to create a network with my PC and organize files and blah blah inconvenient as hell.
-I guess that lives Desktop Media players which would do the job if they do all of the above + read files from external usb hard drives.

This is how i see it so far.Please offer my you expertise so i can narrow it down and proceed to a purchase.

[Bjs]

Go crazy with > http://www.cyclopsav.com/Products/Markus-800.htm ... Think it has it all and that's asking a lot

[guns1inger]

PS3 will do most of that from external USB HDDs. The only real issue is subtitle support, which appears to be piss poor. MKVs will have yo be repackaged, but that is a simple process now.

[therock003]

What formats does it support?Cause i tried to load some avis from a kingston usb stick and it found no media.

Does it only support mp4?

[guns1inger]

If you have the latest updates it plays Xvid and Divx files, mp4, and several others. It won't play mkvs while they are in the mkv container, but tsmuxer can repackage these into a format it will play, usually without having to re-encode.

When you browse for media you may have to browse for all, as the PS3 has a set of default folder locations it looks at when you first browse.

[therock003]

If you have the latest updates it plays Xvid and Divx files, mp4, and several others. It won't play mkvs while they are in the mkv container, but tsmuxer can repackage these into a format it will play, usually without having to re-encode.

When you browse for media you may have to browse for all, as the PS3 has a set of default folder locations it looks at when you first browse.

Does it support the avi container though?Because i even had an avi file on the root of the SB stick and it didnt find it.The PS# i tried it on had the latest updates as well...

[guns1inger]

Yes, it supports the avi container

[therock003]

Well i dont see the reason then that it didnt show any from inside my stick.

Does the file structure need to be in a certain way?I just had a stick full of data and amongst them data there were some avi files and there was one one the roo as well,but it showed no videos whatsoever eventually.

Any ideas as to why?

[guns1inger]

You need to tell the PS3 to display all.

By default it expects the following folders

video
music
photos

and will see the appropriate media inside those folders. However if you tell it to display all it will see anything playable (or that it thinks is playable) outside these folders.

[therock003]

I see,so since i had not created thsi folders tha playstation must not had thios option enabled. Ok i'll try it next time.

As for the mkvs being repackaged, how much time does it take per file,and does the filesize change?

The time it takes is important as there are a lot of them that need to prepared so it would be inconvenient for this to take more than 5-10 mins per file.