Do you have the Sony PlayStation 3? It has 60GB hard drive, Wi-Fi and supports 1080p HDMI output. Thus, if you are PS3 and Video fans, why not transfer videos, songs, pictures to PS3 from PC for enjoying? In fact, there are many ways to transfer, here I wil tell you two easy ways.
a. Use a USB Flash Drive.
If you use an USB you need to make folders on the first menu of the flash drive, then open these folders and paste each music, video, picture folder separately. If it’s anything like updating your software via USB then it should work.
b. Use the media server setting on the PS3.
Use the media server setting on the PS3 which allows you to copy music/picture/video files stored on your PC to your PS3 directly.
1. Load up Windows Media player and turn the PS3 on.
2. Go to options on WMP select sharing and from them you should see that there is an unknown device (the PS3) highlight and press allow to allow sharing to the device.
3. Click apply now from the PS3, and select Search for media server (might automatically find your computer) then when it finds you computer select the icon(Windows Media icon).
4. Now all you music/videos/pictures on your computer should appear.
5. Just find songs, movies, pictures you want from your PC and press triangle to bring up the menu and select copy. It should copy the music/photos/movies to PS3 that you’ve selected after that your done.
PS3 can support MPEG-4, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, Motion JPEG, AVCHD(.m2ts / .mts), DivX, WMV, VC-1 formats. If you want to transfer and play MOV, FLV, TiVo, VOB, MOD, TOD, 3GP, MKV movies on PS3, you need to convert them to PS3 compatible formats. Please follow the bellow steps and you will convert
Step 1: Import video MOV, FLV, TiVo, VOB, MOD, TOD, 3GP, MKV to the best Video to PS3 Converter.
Free download Brorsoft Video Converter and launch it as the best Video to PS3 Converter. Click the button “File” to add MOV, FLV, TiVo, VOB, MOD, TOD, 3GP, MKV video files to the Video to PS3 Converter.
Step 2: Select an output format for PS3 and set the output folder as you need.
Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Video”. From the sublist, the H.264, MPEG-4, AVI, WMV formats are compatible with PS3. Of course, you can also choose the output format from “PSP/PS3”.
Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. Please don't import single video file over 4GB.
Step 4: Start converting your video MOV, FLV, TiVo, VOB, MOD, TOD, 3GP, MKV to PS3.
Click the “Convert” button; it will convert video MOV/FLV/TiVo/VOB/MOD/TOD/3GP/MKV to PS3 immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.
Now, you can sync MOV/FLV/TiVo/VOB/MOD/TOD/3GP/MKV video to PS3 for playing.