Copying a movie to my PS3


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Hey,

Trying to copy a movie to my PS3 yet it's fighting me at every step.

Put it on my 16GB USB pen and it simply refuses to see the pen at all and when I try to copy it via PS3 Media Server it'll just keep copying even beyond the actual size of the movie ...

Any suggestions here?

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The USB drive is tricky because it has to be formatted as FAT. I just generally select the file under my windows share and copy it from there. Never had an issue that way.

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Ah good point.

Formatted it to Fat32, copied the movie over and chose "Display All" yet it sees nothing :/

It can be tricky if you don't know the rules to play by :p

First, the movie can not be bigger than 4.1gb. If it is bigger, the copy will just mess up really. Also, if there is trancoded information, it will copy all of that, which is multiple upon multiple copies of the video, so if you have a 4gb subtitled movie, it can copy up to almost 16gb depending on what transcoding settings are on it, basically 1 copy of each transcoding. What you want to do, is not copy the folder, but click the actual .avi .mk2 or whatever file it is, and copy that directly. But again, it must not be bigger than 4.1gb.

PM me and I can let you know some *cough* things :p

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It's a 3.7GB file and of course I chose the file directly - It does contain quite a few subtitle tracks ( Over 8 ) and even 3 different audio tracks. ( 1 English and 2 Commentator )

Guess I won't be watching movies tonight.

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It's a 3.7GB file and of course I chose the file directly - It does contain quite a few subtitle tracks ( Over 8 ) and even 3 different audio tracks. ( 1 English and 2 Commentator )

Guess I won't be watching movies tonight.

Try going into the transcoding folder, and copy the transcoding sub settings you want. That should do only that 1 version, and leave out the others..... I believe. Had to do that with Ip Man 2.

If it does it right, should only take roughly 20 mins at most....

I remember trying it the first time with transformers 2, let it go for like 2 hours and it said it had copied over 50gbs on a 18gb file lol. I ended up canceling it , and having multiple versions on the hdd to delete.

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this is how i do it for a friends PS3 we take my 8gb flash drive format it to Fat then on the drive created a folder called Video and put the movies in ther and Done the PS3 sees them everytime

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On your pen, make sure the video file resides within the following Folder Structure along with it being FAT32

PS3/VIDEO/place files here

There's also:

PS3/PICTURE/place files here

PS3/MUSIC/place files here

If the files won't show, remember to press Triangle and select Display All.

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this is how i do it for a friends PS3 we take my 8gb flash drive format it to Fat then on the drive created a folder called Video and put the movies in ther and Done the PS3 sees them everytime

As far as using a flash drive, I have only done that for Themes, and I believe you have to create a folder called PS3, then in that folder create another one called THEME, and it will see the themes, but , the folders must be in all caps, or it will not work... is it the same with videos? I just use my computer and PS3 Media Server to copy everything really.

?On your pen, make sure the video file resides within the following Folder Structure along with it being FAT32

PS3/VIDEO/place files here

There's also:

PS3/PICTURES/place files here

PS3/MUSIC/place files here

If the files won't show, remember to press Triangle and select Display All.

K, so it is the same

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Check "turn off subtitles indefinitely" in PS3MS before trying to copy over else it will transcode and harcode the subs into the video (hence the larger size).

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Did with shakey suggested, went into the "Transcode" folder and downloaded the exact copy I needed - Didn't know you had to do that ( Got the commentary version once though :p )

Appreciate it man, you saved my evening (Y)

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Did with shakey suggested, went into the "Transcode" folder and downloaded the exact copy I needed - Didn't know you had to do that ( Got the commentary version once though :p )

Appreciate it man, you saved my evening (Y)

Awesome man. Ya, i wasted a good evening figuring that out myself.

Normally, the subtitles you are looking for will have the letters SSA or is it ASS to the right of it, and all other transcoded versions are just messed up languages and text, at least for me lol.

Audio, I thought the disable subtitles option was only for streaming. I have had subtitles disabled indefinitely always ( as my pc is not strong enough to stream 1080p and handle subtitles at the same time) , and it still has always copies over with subtitles, if the movie has them. You just have to select the right transcoded file, or else it will just choose all and give multiple copies for each. Though I could be off, as I am still new to all of this.

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Did with shakey suggested, went into the "Transcode" folder and downloaded the exact copy I needed - Didn't know you had to do that ( Got the commentary version once though :p )

Appreciate it man, you saved my evening (Y)

Doh! Yeah thats the way to do it :)

If you turn off subtitles like I said it should work as well, however shakeys method is better.

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