Sony PS3 needs firmware update to support NTFS: over 4GB files
Filed under: Gaming, Sony Playstation 3 | By: Daniel
Posted on: February 16, 2008 | 29 Comments
Following our last post on the difference between external and internal hard drives on the Sony PS3, we had an interesting point raised by one of Product Reviews readers. If you have files that are over 4GB they are not supported on the PS3, this may include 1080p HD quality video that you want to play on your Playstation 3 and cannot because the current FAT file structure does not support files more than 4GB.
The answer would be a PS3 firmware update to support the NTFS file system, then you could play 4GB plus video files on your PS3.
Do you have files over 4GB that you would want to play from an internal or external drive?
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Hi…for those of u who have read all the posts made on this discussion board, u will notice that “Dirk Bongo” and “Usaryan” have raised a good point about fixing this HDD recognition problem.
Since the PS3 has an internal HDD that incorporates the Sony proprietary partition system, (Not NTFS!!!) it seems right to think that the console will be able to recognize an external HDD that is also formatted with a Sony proprietary partition system.
So in regards to “Dirk Bongo’s” idea of buying a new laptop HDD, installing it into the PS3 and formatting it using the console (it would format the HDD with Sony proprietary partition system); this is a good idea….but my only question is…once that is done…can we transfer files (larger than 4gb of course) onto the newly formatted drive by connecting it to a PC (after putting the newly formatted HDD into a case with USB connection to use as an external HDD)???
Because…will windows be able to recognize the Sony proprietary partition system of the new HDD? if not, is there a special software that allows us to transfer files onto it?
So - I store all of my divx encoded movies on a separate server and run Showtime. I run nero showtime as a mediaserver and (obviously) the PS3 as a client. I cannot get the PS3 to play files that are larger than 4GB in size. I can reduce the size by reducing the video bitrate - but I don’t want to sacrifice quality. This seems to be a different limitation unless whatever the protocol is (CLNS?) is locally bound to the limitations of the PS3 filesystem.
Any thoughts?
thanks
Linux has an NTFS plugin for their kernel.
I’m pretty sure it can be ported to the PS3.
I agree will “Dirk Bongo” and “Usaryan”, and i beleave that most of the replys didnt understand the problem.
The easy solution is Sony suporting NTFS. A good reason for Sony not wanting to let you use >4GB files could be because of PS3 Backup games. Once they hack the PS3 to load backup’s they will have a problem to get games under 4GB.
My temporary solution for all you out there is MultiAVCHD,it creats a AVCHD from a MKV file and splits the files at 3.9G.
It took me less than 5m to creat a AVCHD from a 10G MKV file, the reason is it doesnt need to transcode the video so it’s like your reading a word document and saving it to PDF and it just takes the time necessary to write the 10G file to you external Fat32 Hard Drive.
I would prefer NTFS and MKV suporte, but for now i’m good this way.
Chears,
Dpiano