Full HDV from PS3 without Blu-ray Burner

MH_Stevens wrote on 12/22/2007, 7:22 PM

AN APOLOGY
I know much has been written here on my issue; I have read what has been written but I'm still confused. Sorry if I'm a bore.

WHAT I WANT TO DO
I want to play an HDV 1080i project at full resolution on a 42" 1080p LCD TV without a Blu-ray burner. I.E. with a format on a SD DVD.

WHAT I CAN DO NOW
On advice here (Bob I think) I have made a good start an got a PS3 connected with HDMI to the TV and I have Nero8 as well as Vegas 7e. I can play a Vegas render to data disk with the HDV 720p settings but nothing else.

WHAT I CAN NOT DO
The PS3 will not play a 1080i render (and I didn't see a Vegas 7e a 1080p option) format without much stutter and I know of no other formats to use.

WHAT I THINK I KNOW ALREADY
I have picked up that I need do something like render to AVC/Mpeg4 which I know little about and that I can with my Nero8 I can burn something with it to a dual layer DVD-R that the PS3 will play. If this is so would someone give the work flow (I simple detailed numbered steps) with all the settings/data rates etc. and if I have this all wrong give me the best I can do.

Excited about replies I really want to have a way to show and see my projects as they should be. Thanks.

Mike

Comments

4eyes wrote on 12/22/2007, 8:10 PM

WHAT I CAN NOT DOSounds like a bad burn or your de-interlacing your videos.
I play all my videos in their native format 1080i (interlaced) UFF 25MBS. No problem.

MozartMan wrote on 12/22/2007, 8:16 PM

Mike,

PS3 plays HDV .m2t 1080i files perfectly from:

1. Internal hard drive
2. External USB hard drive (must be FAT32)
3. Memory Stick
4. USB jump drive
5. CD-R/RW
6. BD-R/RE

If you have short video (small small size) .m2t file create VIDEO folder on your media (MS, jump drive), copy that .m2t file into VIDEO folder, and then stick it into PS3. It cannot be easier that this.

Laurence wrote on 12/22/2007, 11:27 PM

You can play all sorts of raw files off a PS3: AVCHD, mpeg2 and DivX. If you burn a Blu-ray format disc onto a regular DVD+-R, you can go to the stream folder and play the video that way as well.

If you are going to play the raw files, find yourself a nice 8 gig thumb drive and plug it into one of the PS3 USB ports.

The really cool way however is to burn an AVCHD disc with menus from Ulead Movie Factory 6 plus with the extra HD plugin. That gives you an HDV resolution disc that immediately shows you a menu and plays the way you would expect a real BD-R to play. It works really well and you can get over an hour on a regular dual layer DVD+R.

MH_Stevens wrote on 12/23/2007, 10:30 AM

Thanks to all three of you. I got 1080i playing by reducing my rendering quality - just used the Vegas defaults. Can you tell me more with detail about the AVC and Blu-Ray format on ordinary DVD stuff. This seems to be what I want to do. Thanks

Mike