Playing AVCHD from USB stick on PS3

I know I should really Google this, but I can't be bothered and I reckon one or two of you will have done this before.

I don't have any dual layer discs at the moment, and I want to watch Harmy's SW Despecialized. I could watch it on a laptop using VirtualCloneCd and MPC-HC, but the laptop only has a stereo audio output and I wanted to get the full benefit of Hairy Hen's 70mm 6-track mix recreation. Therefore I need to borrow my son's PS3 which has a digital audio output.

What's a the quickest way to get the video onto a 8GB USB stick in a form that the PS3 will recognise and play?

If you are going to use a FAT32 formatted USB stick to play the AVCHD then you will need to run Harmy's SW through TSMuxer first to split the m2ts file into <4gb chunks. I haven't tried playing AVCHD off a USB stick but i think you just create a folder in the root of the USB named AVCHD and drag the contents of the AVCHD into this

Thanks, I figured that the FAT32 4GB limit would cause problems. Found a (possibly?) easier way:

1. Connect PS3 to home network.

2. Install UDF 2.5 drivers on PC.

3. Mount ISO with Virtual Clone Drive.

4. Install PS3 Media Server and share the root of virtual drive.

The video seems to stream OK like this even over a wifi connection; however, I'm going to copy the AVCHD structure onto the PS3's hard drive to ensure playback will not be affected by network glitches.

Copying the files over wasn't successful - it's been copying all morning, 8GB has become 27GB and the PS3 still says only 70% done. Will try TSMuxer instead.

Anyway to do this with vob files or an iso?

I meant something like the GOUT V3.

I used TSMuxer to create the folder structure with split m2ts files. I also used AVCHDMe to rename non-compatible filenames to 8.3 format.

On copying the folder across to the memory stick (actually an 8GB SD card with a USB adapter) I discovered that it wouldn't fit - 8GB was actually about 7.45GiB, whereas a DVD9 is 7.95GiB. (I thought memory always used "binary" prefixes, unlike hard drives, but what the hell.)

I might have been able to make it fit if I'd taken out some audio tracks when remuxing. However, on checking the files that I had copied over last week I found a complete m2ts file, as well as two corrupted files and what appeared to be a transcode. The m2ts file on the PS3 hard drive was complete and (I think) untouched, so I watched that.

For the future, sharing the virtual drive root in PS3 Media Server was probably the wrong thing to do, and I should have just shared the stream folder or even the m2ts file itself.

To watch the V3 dvds I wound up playing the vob files in sequential order. As long as you change the system settings to play sequential files in order it works perfectly, but it only will play the default audio. And for some odd reason the default order will switch on a single vob file. For example, I was watching the ESB V3 with hh's 5.1 and then for a vob it defaulted to the isolated score. This same thing happened on the last vob file of ANH. So now I'm trying a reauthor with just the 5.1 track to see if that fixes the problem.

Still works on mine; think it has the latest update.

It can be a bit picky about file extensions and capitalization. Try using AVCHDMe to check/fix the AVCHD structure.

Could it be a difference between PAL and NTSC players?