KhanUK
25-11-2007, 04:27 AM
Sony is clearly intent on making the PS3 the all-in-one hub for your home entertainment. A new list of media formats supported by the system right out of the box includes a variety of hard and digital formats, and should satisfy the needs of just about everyone.
The hard media has been known for some time, but here's the full list.
BD-ROM
BD-R
BD-RE
DVD-ROM
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD+R
DVD+RW
CD-ROM
CD-R
CD-RW
Super Audio CD
The PS3 will also allow you to access a variety of media file formats from the video, music and photo menus of the Cross Media Bar. We're assuming these files can be stored anywhere, including the hard disk and memory cards.
VIDEO
MPEG-1
MPEG-2 (PS,TS)
H.264/MEPG-4 AVC
MPEG-4 SP
MUSIC
ATRAC (.oma .msa .aa3)
AAC (.3gp .mp4)
MP3 (.mp3)
WAV (.wav)
IMAGES
JPEG
GIF
PNG
TIFF
BMP
For those who wonder where is XVID/DIVX in the list, MPEG-4 SP (Simple Profile) is the MPEG-4 part 2 codec: Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org)
What is not clear is if the reference to MPEG-4 SP mean that the PS3 will only decode MPEG-4 Simple Profile (low resolution and low bitrate) or if it will also decode ASP (high resolution and high bandwidth) content. If if does not then Sony intentionally cripled decoding of XVID to limit it to decode PSP video content only. This would be dumb... unless the PS3 CPU can't handle the higher bitrate profile of MPEG-4 part 2 ;-) Just Kidding!
The hard media has been known for some time, but here's the full list.
BD-ROM
BD-R
BD-RE
DVD-ROM
DVD-R
DVD-RW
DVD+R
DVD+RW
CD-ROM
CD-R
CD-RW
Super Audio CD
The PS3 will also allow you to access a variety of media file formats from the video, music and photo menus of the Cross Media Bar. We're assuming these files can be stored anywhere, including the hard disk and memory cards.
VIDEO
MPEG-1
MPEG-2 (PS,TS)
H.264/MEPG-4 AVC
MPEG-4 SP
MUSIC
ATRAC (.oma .msa .aa3)
AAC (.3gp .mp4)
MP3 (.mp3)
WAV (.wav)
IMAGES
JPEG
GIF
PNG
TIFF
BMP
For those who wonder where is XVID/DIVX in the list, MPEG-4 SP (Simple Profile) is the MPEG-4 part 2 codec: Main Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org)
What is not clear is if the reference to MPEG-4 SP mean that the PS3 will only decode MPEG-4 Simple Profile (low resolution and low bitrate) or if it will also decode ASP (high resolution and high bandwidth) content. If if does not then Sony intentionally cripled decoding of XVID to limit it to decode PSP video content only. This would be dumb... unless the PS3 CPU can't handle the higher bitrate profile of MPEG-4 part 2 ;-) Just Kidding!