i hav an iomega hdd and i had to format it to fat32 so my ps3 wud recognise it. now i want 2 put HD films on it so i can watch them through my ps3 but fat32 only allows me to copy files smaller than 4GB... is ther a way i can change my hdd so that it wil accept larger files!? or is ther any other way around this...?
What physical format (if that's the right term) is your HDD? Is it a 3.5" hard drive or a 2.5" one? If it's the latter, then you can simply replace your old internal drive with the new one. If it's the former, though, then the only real option you have is to burn to dual-layer DVD or split the file into 4GB chunks.
If its like a xbox 360 format the external drive to HFS+ which is a mac drive. Use MacDrive 7 so u can format the external drive to HFS+ and ur pc can read the drive as well as long as u installed MacDrive7. I did that myself to get my HD films on my external harddrive as well to watch them on my xbox 360 it should be the same for the Ps3>
Well, the PS3 only recognizes external media that's been fat32 formatted. I don't think it'll recognize a HFS+ drive.
i tried that mac drive before and i cudn do anything wit it bcoz my cpu is not mac! anybody know how i can split the file into 4gb chunks then...?
with the program macdrive 7 ur computer will recognize the external drive cuz my pc isnt a mac but with mac drive7 the external drive comes up as a mac and reads with no problem. Let me try it out this weekend on my cuzins ps3 i'm kinda of curious now to see if its similar i coulda swore it was the same thing.
If you want to split the movies, it depends on what format they're in. Different program work with different formats (h264, Xvid/DivX, etc.). If it's an HD movie, though, I'm guessing it's an h264 file, which means you can split it using tsMuxer.
I should've been a bit more specific. If the video of the .mkv is an h264 stream, then you can use tsMuxer to remux the .mkv to a .m2ts file (or AVCHD folder) while making sure file splitting is on.
