Best option for DVDs

[Coleman]

First off thanks Dean for your wicked app. I'm trying to copy a DVD to the ps3 with multiman and can't get it working. What's the best option for copying it to the ps3? I have a .iso on my computer and also burned to a DVD-R. Thanks

[Jay-Jay]

Though I've never attempted (yet) to burn a PS3 game into a DVD to use it with the new feature that multiMAN has. I do have a general idea on how it works. Is the PS3_GAME folder sitting on the root on the DVD disc?

So my question is to learn what game are you trying to work with? Is the game known to be a care-free game that multiMAN loads without any special "tweaks"?

And also, jot down here a 1-2-3 on how you are going about trying to play the game on multiMAN? Perhaps I or someone else can spot the error somewhere.

Also here is a known tutorial to this: Google the following title: multiMAN DiscBoot Utility: For Burning PS3 Games To Disc

[Coleman]

Thanks for the reply Jay-Jay. I see I forgot to mention it was a DVD movie and not a game. I've tried copying the movie to my hard drive and it doesn't go past 0%. I ended up transferring the VIDEO_TS and VIDEO_TS folder into my GAMES folder on my internal hard drive and that doesn't seem to work.

[Jay-Jay]

Ah I see. Talking about how badly I missed your point on what you were trying to do. lol I gotta stop drinking wine--but then it's the holiday season, and well after a full year of work, I guess it's okay to get some time off.

I've never tried to playback a .vob file in my PS3 internal or external HDD. I am not sure whether the video XMB or multiMAN's XMMB (using showtime) will support .vob files. (.vob files are the standard video files for DVDs.)

Try this.

1. copy just the .vob files from the DVD (since it won't support the menu options). -- Keep in mind that only the large size .vob files are the actual video (split in two or up to four large files--some even more on DVD9 discs).
2. Put them in this directory in your USB HDD. /Video/(name of folder of movie)/*.vob.
3. Then go to the PS3 default video column, look for your USB drive and you should be able to see the folder you created (the title of the movie).
4. Then launch the first .vob file it sees and it should playback all of them in sequence.)

You can also just move the VIDEO_TS folder and put it in the VIDEO folder of your HDD (you can ignore the AUDIO_TS folder--since it's nothing in there useful, and it should playback the vobs, but you may want to delete the other video clips and also non-vob files since they are not the movie (such as intro, menu, other clips of other movies, and other junk.) Give that a try.

Happy Holidays.

[JonahUK]

You can't copy the vob files from a dvd as they are still encrypted (css) (unless its a rip burned to dvd-r)
Rip them on PC/MAC/Laptop whatever and then transfer each vob for the film (the movie will be the vobs that are 1gb in size) to your external in order to play with MM.
Just place them under a folder called VIDEO on your external and the PS3 will play them natively.

[Pand0ras_B0x]

I can't copy DVDs. WTF.