Well, not yet. But, after this week's version 2.0 update has been installed, it seems that the PS3 is "aware" of more video file types, including the DivX and Xvid video codecs.
The sharp and beady eyes of Kotaku noticed that the PS3 now can "see" these once unseen, unsupported file types in the system's browser. It's a shame that these files won't play (yet), but if the file types are now acknowledged, it could point to something that Sony may be working on for a future update.
Support of these codecs is the holy grail for video downloading fiends like myself. Let's hope that Sony isn't just pulling our chain on this.
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8:18 AM on 11.09.2007
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Since it is part of the MPEG-4 specification, Sony should be implementing it. They already support SP and AVC (H264) so I don't see why not. Whether they implement avi, mkv container support is another matter. Personally I really don't care too much since tools exist to move data to a mp4 container which is the standard anyway.
Proper ASP support would be the final piece to put in place for the PS3 to be a truly wondrous multimedia centre.
also, you can currently easliy convert video with ps3 video 9 and ps media tunnel to send it from your computer to your ps3...
nice and easy. all around awesome...
Yes it is easy to set up, but it makes the videos about twice as large and it takes hours to convert. At least in my experience. It should just work IMO. Get on it Sony!
Honestly I could care less. I throw my Divx and Xvid encoded files into Visual Hub on my iMac and they process faster than realtime into the H.264 wrapper that's compatible with the PS3 and Xbox.
So, since I've got batch processing support on this application whether they add it or not, it's still going to look and play the same for me either way, so honestly, it's not that big of a deal.
anywayz back on the subject, most web videos are flash or divx