PC to TV Streaming - Wireless

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Pushead2

PS3 won't read files over 4gb. (Blu-Ray)

So it's the PS3 drive that's formatted FAT32?

I'm still missing something I guess because I don't understand why the HDD on the PS3 would have any effect on streaming videos from another device to the PS3.

[mnchiefsguy]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

So it's the PS3 drive that's formatted FAT32?

I'm still missing something I guess because I don't understand why the HDD on the PS3 would have any effect on streaming videos from another device to the PS3.

The drive on my pc that is streaming to my PS3 is a 2 TB NTFS drive. My understanding is that the PS3 will not read any drive directly that is not FAT32. So if I had an external drive that was formatted NTFS and want to play files from it on my PS3, I would have to hook it up to a PC and then stream the content over, as opposed to just directly connecting said drive to the PS3 via USB.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by mnchiefsguy

The drive on my pc that is streaming to my PS3 is a 2 TB NTFS drive. My understanding is that the PS3 will not read any drive directly that is not FAT32. So if I had an external drive that was formatted NTFS and want to play files from it on my PS3, I would have to hook it up to a PC and then stream the content over, as opposed to just directly connecting said drive to the PS3 via USB.

Ah.

That's what I was missing.

I guess I didn't see any reason someone would want to stream direct when so many network-based options are readily available.