PS3 Video Formats

Do you know what kind of video formats are supported by PlayStation 3? If you still waste you precious time in looking for the results about the PS3 supported video formats, why don't you have a brief browse on this page? This article is specially written down to show you all PS3 compatible video formats.

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Introduction on PS3 Video Formats

First you should have a brief knowledge on the "video package format", "video encoding format" and "audio encoding format". The formats we often talk about like AVI, MKV, MP4 and TS are belong to package format. Actually, this format is not as important as the internal video encoding format. PS3 can play any video that in the right encoding format supported by PS3.

Video package format: You can understand it as a video media container, just as an outer skin. The thing inside the container (which means the video encoding format) is the video format supported by PS3. You can simply judge which video package format is used from the video file extension.

Video encoding format: It is the encoding that supported by video format. If the package format and encoding format corresponding with the PS3 video formats table below, then the PS3 can play perfectly. Video encoding format can be verified on the computer by the Pure Codec or any other decoding software. Now the most popular HD encoding is H.264 (or MPEG-4 AVC), followed by VC-1, Xvid / Divx, MPEG-2, etc. The best one is H.264.

Audio encoding format: The better video file always comes with the better tone quality and can hold multiple tracks inside the video. Currently the most advanced audio coding format is PCM, then followed by DTS, AC3, AAC, MP3, and the most backward is WMA.

PS3 Video Formats

PS3 (the abbreviation of PlayStation 3) has very powerful function on video playback. It can be said that almost all HD videos are supported by PS3. Here we just summed up all types of high-definition video formats compatible with PS3.

The following PS3 video formats table is exhaustive list of the video parameters that supported by the PS3.

Video Package Formats	Video Encoding Formats	Audio Encoding Formats
M2TS	H.264/AVC	AC3/LPCM
TS	MPEG-2/AVC	AC3/LPCM
VOB	MPEG-2/AVC	AC3/LPCM
MP4	AVC/Xvid/DivX	AAC
MPG	MPEG-2/1	AC3/AAC
AVI	Xvid/DivX	AC3/MP3
WMV	WMV9/VC-1	WMA

Besides the PS3 video formats mentioned above, you should also pay attention to some other things. First, those video files distributed over the Internet have playback restrictions are not able to be played on PlayStation 3. Second, not all WMV format videos with WMV9/VC-1 encoding are supported by PS3, the copyright-protected WMV files cannot be played.

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