Hey everyone. After much reading and several probelms with Swissknife & partition majic I finally was able to format my 1 TB drive to FAT32 and created the appropriate directories. I was haooy when I plugged the external USB drive and the PS3 recognizes it. So far so good. I have been using Mkv2Vob to convert my mkv files and have had success either streaming the large movie files through my PS3 using Tversity or copying the very large files to my 80 Gig PS3 internal drive. What I want to do now is copy the large movie files from my PS3 internal drive to my new 1TB external USB drive. I am getting an error anytime the file is above (approx. 4 gb). I know that there has been restrictions in terms of file size with Fat 32 but I thought once the drive is connected to the PS3 the file size problem wouldn't be a problem! If this is an actual problem with the file size, why did my copies of large files (8 Gig & 10 Gig in some cases) from my PC to my PS3's internal hard drive work OK? What can I do short of breaking the movie files into smaller chunks and them rebuilding them on my external hard drive? Suggestions? Just when I think I'm across the finish line another hurdle appears Any help would be appreciated.
Common miss conception, the ps3's internal HDD isn't fat32; it uses its own unique file structure Sony cooked up. There's not anything you can really do besides breaking them up to put them on the external fat32 HDD.
if you want to transfer your files over 4gb, you can use the same ps32vob program to split the files. just go to the configuration tab and select file splitting.
I believe one of the recent firmware updates added sequential video playback. I haven't had the need to try it, but if you get those movie files split, post back your results please. I'm curious to see if it works they way I think it should (eg. Movie1 and Movie2 being split chunks of the same movie - you used to have to play one part, and then after it finished, select the second part manaully in the XMB).
I have loads of smaller video files on my ps3 (things like series of american dad and family guy etc) and the sequential playback does work now. It is as you described.
Redboat83, just use swissknife and either plug the hard drive directly into your PC or put it into an external case and plug that into your PC and format it into fat32 that way. If you cant get the full size with those programs try using disk managament (on xp by going to start>run>diskmgmt.msc) then partition it from there.
