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If you are like me, you probably use your PS3 to stream media from a NAS at home or something; either from the NAS directly or via a computer using TVersity.
If you have begun to dabble with streaming HD content, either 720p or 1080p, you may have noticed that the PS3’s playback of that media gets really jerky and stutters. You might think it’s a network bandwidth issue, but after reading through some support forums that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Laurence Hartje points out there seems to be a change that came in the PS3’s Firmware around versions 2.2 or so (currently 2.36) that caused the jerkiness to begin (Thread 1, Thread 2, Thread 3, Search Results) and since then HD streaming users have just had to complain and live with it.
One hope at this point is that the huge update coming with Firmware 2.4 will improve the streaming situation again for folks, but there are of course no guarantees that it will be fixed and we might have to live with the stuttering.
If you are a big streamer, the only fix at this point seems to be putting the media directly on the PS3 and playing it from there; even playing high-quality 1080p media in that fashion works fine, it’s just the goofiness with the streaming that will hopefully get a kick in the pants.
The behavior seems to indicate bad buffering behavior, but you would have figured that Sony could fix that rather easily if that were the case.
Fingers crossed that it gets fixed; we’ll keep you posted with any findings and if you find out any great tricks, let us know.
NOTE: I am experiencing this right now with 720p/x264/6mbps media when playing it back, I don’t notice it with standard-def material however.
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June 26th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I’ve been having this exact same issue… i’ve reencoded movies to smaller width (from 1080p to 720p)… but to no avail.
I’ve been relegated to converting some of my movies to mp4 and then putting them on my apple tv.
it’s quite a pain in the ass as my ps3 is a 40GB model, apple tv = 320GB model.
right now i’m trying to modify the file using quicktime pro and will see how this goes… thanks for the post! hope this is resolved asap!
June 26th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Ericn, I’m glad it helped atleast let folks know out there that it’s “not their fault” and that something screwy is going on with the PS3.
I’m really surprised you didn’t get it to stop skipping even with SD content… are you *positive* it’s not a bandwidth issue in your case? Did you try hooking the PS3 right to the router and seeing if the stuttering stopped?
I haven’t had any problems with SD content, even decent looking SD (like nice rips of Lost) but I never tried true HD before, and I can’t get it to play smoothly for the life of me.
I can even play at 1.5x speed and it goes OK, which would seem to indicate that the bandwidth issue isn’t it.
Anyway let’s hope that 2.4 fixes it… BTW what are you using to stream to your PS3? Tversity?
August 18th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I’ve tried ps3 streaming via wireless with h264’s WMP11 with appropriate registry edits etc… However.. the movie stutters and lags every second. Isnt bandwidth because I can stream 1080 MGSO4 via the wireless without a glitch or issue, and other files work fine.
Attempting Tversity.. vs WMP now…
August 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
tek,
I’ll be really interested to hear what you find, I tried some 640×480 (not even 480p) video streaming and even *that* stuttered over wireless, forgetting HD at this point I’m down to encoding my videos to 480×320 just to get them to stream without stuttering and now it’s stopped, but that’s ridiculously low.
Let me know what you find.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:13 am
The problem could be your encoding methods. If you are using Tversity to stream the files to your PC, you could very well be doing the transcoding. Try some different streaming programs. Twonkymedia is very stable, as is Orb. If you have a Mac use Medialink or Eyeconnect.
If you need help on installing any of them just check out my PS3 tab @ http://blog.hillbillyhardware.net
I have tried to gather and make tutorials available for everyone to help get their streaming working.