Media streaming vs HDD playback

[michaelbarry]

I have purchased at 2TB HDD and I run it through my PS3 to play movies, but it seems that it is more of a hassle when I try to play newer ones with encryption. I have tried using VUZE as a media streaming server and the video keeps stuttering. Is there a better service to use? Is my HDD a waste of money?

 

[sholling]

Are you stripping the encryption or are you just copying to the hard drive? I don't know what formats the PS3 reads but you need to pick ripper that decrypts as well as rips to a format that the PS3 likes.

 

[michaelbarry]

I am just downloading and dumping file to HDD. I am not too tech savy when figuring out what kind of format it is. Usually they are MP4 or Avi files. Any idea on how to strip the encryption?

 

[its phillip]

I'm assuming you're talking about cinavia or whatever it's called. If you use a WDTV live (or whatever it's called) instead of your ps3 you won't have that issue.

 

[sholling]

I'm assuming you're talking about cinavia or whatever it's called. If you use a WDTV live (or whatever it's called) instead of your ps3 you won't have that issue.

That's probably the best solution. A WDTV Live will play darn near anything and it accepts up to 2 external drives. You can see one at Best Buy or watch this youtube video, it's a bit dated but you'll get an idea of how it works. The only thing I know of that it will not play is 24bit flacs (16bit only) and DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD.

From the WD website:

File Formats Supported

Video
AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG1/2/4), MPG/MPEG, VOB, MKV (h.264, x.264, AVC, MPEG1/2/4, VC-1), TS/TP/M2T (MPEG1/2/4, AVC, VC-1), MP4/MOV (MPEG4, h.264), M2TS, WMV9

Photo
JPEG, GIF, TIF/TIFF, BMP, PNG

Audio
MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, AIF/AIFF, OGG, Dolby Digital, DTS

Playlist
PLS, M3U, WPL

Subtitle
SRT, ***, SSA, SUB, SMI