PS3 won't play some MP4 and AVI files

[jiggy]

Hi guys! I have some anime files that are mp4 or avi but for some reason they show as unsupported files. I tried using ps3 media player and that didn't work, also I don't want to stream movies from my pc. I simply want to copy then to my ps3 hdd so I can play them without the need of having my pc on. Anyway my questions is how can I fix these files and how do I go about it?


Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Bjs]

Grab mediainfo or gspot and use these to determine the internal information about the no playing clips ... then compare with "supported" file types here

Should anything show as unsupported you will need to either remux or re-encode the problematic file

[jiggy]

Thanks for the info. The problem is that I'm a complete noob when it comes to this... and I really have no idea what is wrong. I tried to remux to .m2ts and I got the file to play but it gives me no sound. Here is what I got from a file that won't work from mediainfo"

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 223 MiB
Duration : 23mn 5s
Overall bit rate : 1 352 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2007-03-21 02:29:10
Tagged date : UTC 2007-03-21 02:29:10

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 23mn 5s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 220 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 5 055 Kbps
Width : 704 pixels
Height : 400 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.181
Stream size : 201 MiB (90%)
Writing library : x264 core 54 svn-634
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=hex / subme=5 / brdo=0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=1 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=2 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=1 / direct=2 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=1220 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30
Encoded date : UTC 2007-03-20 23:09:00
Tagged date : UTC 2007-03-21 02:29:49

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 23mn 5s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 179 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 21.1 MiB (9%)
Language : English
Encoded date : UTC 2007-03-21 02:29:45
Tagged date : UTC 2007-03-21 02:29:49



This is a file that does work or play on my PS3:

Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 228 MiB
Duration : 23mn 5s
Overall bit rate : 1 381 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2008-07-10 08:51:56
Tagged date : UTC 2008-07-10 08:51:56

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 23mn 5s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 1 250 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 5 786 Kbps
Width : 704 pixels
Height : 400 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.185
Stream size : 207 MiB (91%)
Writing library : x264 core 60 r906 ceb2df9
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=1 / deblock=0:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=dia / subme=4 / brdo=0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=1 / nr=100 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / bframes=0 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=1250 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=0
Encoded date : UTC 2008-07-10 07:25:59
Tagged date : UTC 2008-07-10 08:52:48

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format version : Version 4
Format profile : LC
Format settings, SBR : No
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 23mn 5s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 236 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 21.1 MiB (9%)
Encoded date : UTC 2008-07-10 08:52:41
Tagged date : UTC 2008-07-10 08:52:48


Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[yoda313]

edit - sorry I was posting about m2ts - didn't realize you were converting to that and having issues.

Try converters that have a ps3 output setting. Something like super or xvid4psp.

[jiggy]

Thanks a lot guys! I'm using xvid4psp to convert the files and they're working now. Again thanks for all of your help.