what can a PS3 do?

[m3evo]

i mean apart from games, online etc.

i was wondering if i can connect my phone via bluetooth to transfer photos?

what else can PS3's do thats cool?

[On The Edge of Insanity]

What Nintendon't

[funkydan]

i mean apart from games, online etc.

i was wondering if i can connect my phone via bluetooth to transfer photos?

what else can PS3's do thats cool?

You should be able to do that with your phone as the controllers/remote/headsets connect wirelessly via Bluetooth, so as long as you registered your phone with the PS3 first.

It can play Blurays, upscales your DVD playback, plays DivX, you can stream music, vids and photos from your PC, use your own images as wallpaper, folding@home, RSS feeds, surf t'interweb, PSN store.

[NecronomiconUK]

Re: streaming videos to the ps3.... it's really picky over it's file formats. MP4 is about the only reliable one of the lot. Most films and tv eps downloaded off the intatoobs are in Xvid format and not DivX which doesn't work at all on the puss3

[kernow]

run linux? and then do pretty much everything a normal computer does?

the last few days I've had my PS3 on I haven't had the XMB loaded at alll, I've been in gentoo linux coding stuff over SSH.

[On The Edge of Insanity]

Re: streaming videos to the ps3.... it's really picky over it's file formats. MP4 is about the only reliable one of the lot. Most films and tv eps downloaded off the intatoobs are in Xvid format and not DivX which doesn't work at all on the puss3

If you stick it on a memory stick I've found that all that Xvid files I've tried so far work perfectly on the PS3.

[NecronomiconUK]

If you stick it on a memory stick I've found that all that Xvid files I've tried so far work perfectly on the PS3.

Really? I'll try that when i get home.... not that I can be arsed when I can stream to the 360 without running around with a memory stick. Useful to know though, fanks.

[JP]

I don't think you'll be able to link a phone to the PS3 yet as you have the option on the PS3 to register a remote control, headset or keyboard & mouse.

There is nothing to stop them adding that in the future though but I'm not really sure why they would add it.

[charlesr]

Re: streaming videos to the ps3.... it's really picky over it's file formats. MP4 is about the only reliable one of the lot. Most films and tv eps downloaded off the intatoobs are in Xvid format and not DivX which doesn't work at all on the puss3

Can you save me hunting around please and let me know if it supports mp4s containing avchd files with 5.1? 360 only supports 2.0 lameness for mp4s.

[sj33]

2.0 only, apparently because the licencing fees Sony are required to play to the MPEG LA are massively higher for 5.1 than 2.0.

[charlesr]

bah. Thanks man. Hurry up xbmc linux guys.

[JamesBelsey]

I've been playing with the PS3's media streaming capabilities for a while and it'll happily play every single Xvid file that I've got, streamed over the network.

I use an old version of Twonkyvision to stream from my NAS device and at first all the files just showed up as 'Unsupported Data', but what I found is that if you just rename them from being '.avi' to being '.vob', it plays them all just fine

Also, it'll happily play h264 MKV files with 5.1 audio if you simply re-mux them to a vob file (not a re-encode), which takes 5 to 10 minutes depending on the file size. There's even an automated app to do it now - http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=131782

Hope this helps.

James.

[m3evo]

thanks to all who have responded. up to now i have:

managed to set up a wireless connection
updated with version 2.10
downloaded lemmings and GT5 concept


anything else i should be doing?

[Paulos G]

Dusting?

[m3evo]

Dusting?

thanks for that!