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Did anyone else lose the ability to play MP4 files on their PS3

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lokiju

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It doesn't even see the files, it acts like nothing is there.

And these are files that before the update I was able to play with no issues.

Has anyone else run into this issue and if so have you found a solution?

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To give more detail I use TVersity to stream from my server in my office to my PS3 in my living room.

Haven't changed a single thing on my server in months and the only thing I changed on the PS3 is the firmware.

All the Tversity does is act as a media server that uses the UPnP standard for devices.

I also have a NAS that also supports the UPnP standard and again if I point my PS3 to that it can view any divx movie without issue but any mp4 file with the mp4 extension it can't even see. All these movies are at the same folder depth fwiw.
 
Did you move them to a different location? In the little bit I've used the media player I noticed it couldn't see files nested too deeply on a flash drive.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Did you move them to a different location? In the little bit I've used the media player I noticed it couldn't see files nested too deeply on a flash drive.
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Well you can't see them normally, but if you press Triangle and select Display All, you'll be able to dig through the folders to find the files desired. Normally you can only see things I think one directory down. I have mine set up like Video/BSG/videofile.mp4. If there is anything deeper in hierarchy by default it won't be seen.

As far as MP4 playback, not entirely sure. I noticed the latest mkv2vob update changed things a little bit, but all files I convert playback just fine on my PS3, including with either AC3 or 5.1 PCM.

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and if something doesn't show up even if it's not deep in folders, try doing Display All anyhow, and even if it says unsupported data, try playing it back. Sometimes the PS3 won't actually recognize that it can indeed play a certain file. Sometimes it's just the video container, sometimes its the way it was encoded, but as long as its AVC/MP4 video it should play back perfectly. In addition to MPEG2, obviously. 😛
 
To give more detail I use TVersity to stream from my server in my office to my PS3 in my living room.

Haven't changed a single thing on my server in months and the only thing I changed on the PS3 is the firmware.

All the Tversity does is act as a media server that uses the UPnP standard for devices.

I also have a NAS that also supports the UPnP standard and again if I point my PS3 to that it can view any divx movie without issue but any mp4 file with the mp4 extension it can't even see. All these movies are at the same folder depth fwiw.
 
did you get a fix? I'm trying to share an H.264 MP4 file and it isn't showing up either. I'm using WMP11 though, haven't tried TVersity
 
friggin annoying as hell. I can not get windows media player to recognize to MP4 file. I have ffd tryout and the splitter program, added the registry file, still nothing.

Tried TVersity and the quality is terrible, and its slow. Tried Orb but it says the file can't be played. I can't get nero's sharing program to show any files at all.

so frustrating
 
PS3 Media Server imo! I haven't had any of the issues with seeing/playing mp4s that you're describing but you might give PS3 media server a try. Much like your NAS (I assume), it lets you navigate shared folders rather than playlists that you have to keep up to date like with Tversity so that might make a difference, it might not.

Worst case you should be able to let PS3 Media Server transcode the offending files.
 
Originally posted by: guitarslingerchris
PS3 Media Server imo! I haven't had any of the issues with seeing/playing mp4s that you're describing but you might give PS3 media server a try. Much like your NAS (I assume), it lets you navigate shared folders rather than playlists that you have to keep up to date like with Tversity so that might make a difference, it might not.

Worst case you should be able to let PS3 Media Server transcode the offending files.
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damn, this ps3 media server is by far the best program ive used, but the ps3 won't read the file :/ guess I can play around with it
 
I use Fair Use Wizard 2.8 to convert to MP4 with AAC/MP3 audio. No problems streaming those files with Tversity and the latest PS3 update.
 
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