Anyone know anything about getting a PS3 to play video off an external hard drive? the drive is MBR with a single 256GB FAT32 partition on it (the drive itself is much larger but the rest of it is not being used right now), which is what the internet suggests should be all that's needed for a PS3 to recognise it, but it won't show up. It has a bunch of MP4s on it that were converted with handbrake specifically to be playstation compatible video files
actually if anyone knows a good way to use a remote (that could even be a wireless gamepad, even) with VLC, that would work too
Just want a way to easily skip past the opening theme song that's on each and every video, as well as play/pause and stuff
@Felthry I'm fairly sure Kodi supports the PS4 controller as a remote! Would that work?
@IceWolf We're not familiar with Kodi, but we don't have a PS4 controller anyway.
@Felthry It's basically Steam Big Picture for everything except games. :3
I'm pretty sure it supports other controllers too, probably including PS3; my brain just defaulted to PS4 because that's what I've got. *facepaws*
@Felthry Plex works on the PS3 so you could probably stream the files from your computer
@noiob What's plex? Is it something that can be used on an unmodded ps3? I don't know if the ps3 can even connect to wifi, we only have one ethernet jack
@Felthry the ps3 has wifi, and it's a video streaming server/client. It shows up as a video app on my ps3 so I assume it's just available on psn
@Felthry oh or you can just hover over the usb drive, press triangle and select "display all"
@noiob well the problem is I can't see the usb drive at all, it's not showing up under eany of the headers
@Felthry my 4GB FAT32 stick works
@Felthry I put a random mp4 on a thumbdrive and it plays perfectly
Sure, we could play them off our computer hooked up to the tv but kinda want to be able to use a remote control? and the PS3 supports that kind of thing, at least when we used it in the past to play BDs and DVDs