View Full Version : Sony PS3 now supports AVCHD


Ray Bell
July 24th, 2007, 08:06 PM
Sony has released verson 1.90 for the Playstation...

supports playback of AVCHD, up conversion of Audio playback and supports Blu-ray output of 1080 24P

among other updates included.........

Kalunga Lima
August 10th, 2007, 11:35 AM
Has anyone been able to output 1080 (i or 24p) material from their computer via ethernet to a PS3's HDMI output and onto a HD ready LC TV?

Kevin Shaw
August 10th, 2007, 12:32 PM
I can render HDV 1080/60i files from my editing timeline to a USB2 hard drive and use that to stream video from the PS3 to a 1080p LCD display. This looks great and is much easier than trying to burn a DVD (either SD or HD).

Kalunga Lima
August 10th, 2007, 01:03 PM
Kevin, what settings are you using for rendering to 1080/601?

Kevin Shaw
August 10th, 2007, 01:10 PM
I'm using the "Speed Encoder" option in Edius which lists the following defaults for 1080i output:

Video: 1440x1080, 29.97 fps, Video Aspect 16x9, MP@H14, 25.0 Mbps VBV, Buffer Size 896 KB

Audio: 48.0 Khz, 16bits, 2ch, 384kbps

Hope that helps...

Kalunga Lima
August 12th, 2007, 03:44 AM
Thanks Kevin for your input. I quoted you in another thread "Non-Linear Editing on the Mac"

Kalunga Lima
August 12th, 2007, 06:58 AM
I can render HDV 1080/60i files from my editing timeline to a USB2 hard drive and use that to stream video from the PS3 to a 1080p LCD display. This looks great and is much easier than trying to burn a DVD (either SD or HD).

Kevin, one more question:

How do you get past the file size limitation in your USB2 Hard drive, or are your files smaller than 4 GB?

thanks

Kevin Shaw
August 12th, 2007, 03:20 PM
As far as I know that's correct: the PS3 only recognizes FAT32 partitions and hence file sizes under 4GB. That's still about 20 minutes of HDV material at 1080i or a little more at 720p.

Craig Irving
August 13th, 2007, 10:42 AM
I tried a myriad of different settings recently exporting an H.264 file from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 for playback on a PS3 and everything came up as corrupted data.

I tried a bunch of 1280x720p settings, and a bunch of 1440x1080p settings (i.e. main profile, high profile, different levels, etc.)

I tried copying from a memory stick, and also by streaming with Red Kawa's server, but it always came up as corrupted data.

The one thing I didn't try was changing the frame rate. I wanted to keep it at 23.976p but I figure I'll try 29.976p tonight and see if that fixes things.

Otherwise.... back to MPEG-2.

Kalunga Lima
August 13th, 2007, 12:17 PM
Apparently people have been able to burn 1920x1080 clips on a regular DVD on a MAC that will play back in a PS3.

Piotr,

there is no directory. You compress your whole media into one single .m2t file. The audio is included.
I use Mac and there is no blu ray support in DVD SP yet. So if I want to watch my finished project on a big screen from my PS3, I have to compress the FCP sequence with Compressor to a .m2t file. Here I can select stream audio in the options tab. This will change the .m2v project to .m2t, dont ask me how...
Then I burn this file on a normal DVD, thats all. 18 minutes 1920x1080 clip was 3.2Gb. Works very well.

Unfortunately there is no authoring software for Mac yet. But I think for PC you have a couple of them, you may give it a try. Roxio has something like Easy Media Creator...if I remember well. But I have to admit, I am not much into PC stuff.

Logically with a Blu-Ray burner and Sonic solutions Toast 8 software, one should be able to “author” a 2 hour PS3 compatible 1920x1080 file on a blu-ray disc using a Mac???

Having said ths, I still don't understand why it's taking so long to a FCP compatible Blu-ray authoring solution...

Paulo Teixeira
September 4th, 2007, 04:55 PM
1.92 released today
http://www.us.playstation.com/ps3/network/updates?DCMP=ILC-PS3_1304&LINK=PS3SU


The [Image Quality Adjustment] option in the control panel has been changed to [AV Settings].
You can now play AVCHD-format video files that are saved on Memory Stick™ media or on the hard disk of a video camera.
You can now operate the (Slow (Back)) and (Frame Reverse) functions when playing video files saved on storage media or on the hard disk.

I hope Sony will add compatibilities with High Definitions H.264 camcorders other than AVCHD such as the ones from Hitachi, Sanyo and Samsung.

Paulo Teixeira
November 7th, 2007, 09:47 PM
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/11/07/firmware-update-v200/

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/11/07/firmware-200-video-demonstration/

-EDIT-
They finally got the 2.0 firmware page up.
http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Network/Updates/default.html

Paulo Teixeira
November 19th, 2007, 10:07 PM
Firmware Update 2.01 released.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/11/19/firmware-update-v201/

Maksim Yankovskiy
November 30th, 2007, 03:31 AM
I can't get my PS3 to play back anything rendered out of PPro CS3 - neigher MPE2, nor AVC (H.264). The HDV MPEG2 was playing before; I will try older HDV clips captured and rendered out with PPro CS2. I am wondering if I should blame PS3 firmware 2.01 instead of CS3...

I tried a myriad of different settings recently exporting an H.264 file from Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 for playback on a PS3 and everything came up as corrupted data.

I tried a bunch of 1280x720p settings, and a bunch of 1440x1080p settings (i.e. main profile, high profile, different levels, etc.)

I tried copying from a memory stick, and also by streaming with Red Kawa's server, but it always came up as corrupted data.

The one thing I didn't try was changing the frame rate. I wanted to keep it at 23.976p but I figure I'll try 29.976p tonight and see if that fixes things.

Otherwise.... back to MPEG-2.

Craig Irving
November 30th, 2007, 08:17 AM
Hmmm. I haven't had any issues w/ firmware 2.01

All the HDV and MPEG-2 exports I've stored on the PS3 hard drive are still playing back fine. It's only H.264 that I couldn't get to work properly, but I haven't tried it lately.

Paulo Teixeira
December 2nd, 2007, 10:39 PM
I can't get my PS3 to play back anything rendered out of PPro CS3 - neigher MPE2, nor AVC (H.264). The HDV MPEG2 was playing before; I will try older HDV clips captured and rendered out with PPro CS2. I am wondering if I should blame PS3 firmware 2.01 instead of CS3...
All of the AVCHD and HDV files I’ve tried worked. What I would do in your situation is experiment with different extension like .mpeg .mpeg2 and .m2t. You should also try playing back native HDV files before they were rendered.

Andy Wilkinson
December 3rd, 2007, 09:14 AM
Putting a link in this thread to another with similar information that might help someone below.

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=108564