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[Nick Laslett]

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[InterMoniker]

Sorry I'm just surprised that a photo gallery app would be so big that it couldn't be already included in a system update install. But I guess it does a lot so whatever. It'd be cool if it had photo editing/scrapbooking capabilities. Like adding captions, borders, or "stickers".

It's all good just after your edit it totally changed your first question. No you don't have to install it. But if you want the new photo viewer then obviously yes you do have to install it.

 

[Dante]

Kind of an odd question, but what is the Life with Playstation icon supposed to look like? It look s like it should be a globe, but mine is like a semi-transparent circle....It's kinda ungly.

 

[BeeDog]

Hey, new and free functionality, can't really complain. But for the love of God, if it hasn't been fixed yet, fix the fucking clock thing *echo*.

Kind of an odd question, but what is the Life with Playstation icon supposed to look like? It look s like it should be a globe, but mine is like a semi-transparent circle....It's kinda ungly.

Magnifying glass, it's supposed to be an overlay to the background picture.

 

[InterMoniker]

Kind of an odd question, but what is the Life with Playstation icon supposed to look like? It look s like it should be a globe, but mine is like a semi-transparent circle....It's kinda ungly.

I think it might be transparent until you install it. I'm not 100% sure though. Do you have it installed?

 

[Ranger X]

You still have to download and install the photo gallery seperately. :lol :lol :lol
It's over 100MB :lol

WTF is wrong with you? You download new software and it shouldn't take place on your hard disk? Common.

Also, I don't want to download this shit so it's GREAT that it's optional, I don't want this bullshit to clutter my HDD, the firmware is way enough.

 

[LRB1983]

come on Sony, x264 support. MKV without x264 codec is like nothing.
If they want to improve photo system they should enable us to take screenshots about our progress.

 

[Revolutionary]

EDIT: misread

 

[VNZ]

come on Sony, x264 support. MKV without x264 codec is like nothing.
If they want to improve photo system they should enable us to take screenshots about our progress.

x264 is an open source implementation of h.264, a codec supported by the PS3 since day one (in bluray and mp4 videos).

 

[Philanthropist]

WTF is wrong with you? You download new software and it shouldn't take place on your hard disk? Common.

Also, I don't want to download this shit so it's GREAT that it's optional, I don't want this bullshit to clutter my HDD, the firmware is way enough.

He probably doesn't know the PS3 already has a built-in photo viewer with plenty of features.

 

[Dizzle24]

Also: I'd like to use my video game machine to play video games.
I will use Flickr for uploading photos, Power Point for slideshows, or just a photo book to store pics.

Thanks.:lol

Gimme some damn PS2 BC pl0x.

 

[Lord Error]

This is fantastic news, we have all our digital photos on the PS3 going back to 2000. As a father of two kids, that is a lot of photos, about 8gb.

I have been crying out for a slide show shuffle feature since day one.

Hopefully this will come to the PSP too as I have 1gb of photos there too.

This makes me a very happy PS3 owner.

You already have some pretty decent slideshow options on PS3.

 

[RuGalz]

Photo Gallery app looks awesome.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2009/01/20/upcoming-ps3-firmware-v260-update/

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Of course, but mkv is the defacto standard for pirated HD movies. Mp4 are now a bit more available because it works with the PS3, but MKV still reigns.

It's also the de-facto standard for anime fansubs. Considering Sony's interest in promoting anime on PS3/PSN (see Xam'd: Lost Memories), you would think mkv support would be something they understand PS3 owners would appreciate.

 

[Ranger X]

Also: I'd like to use my video game machine to play video games.
I will use Flickr for uploading photos, Power Point for slideshows, or just a photo book to store pics.

Thanks.:lol

Gimme some damn PS2 BC pl0x.

I hope I will never catch you using your cellphone for something else than actually having a phone call. And be careful when installing stuff on your PC because there's a awfull lot of things that can be done in seperate machines.

 

[The Faceless Master]

It's also the de-facto standard for anime fansubs. Considering Sony's interest in promoting anime on PS3/PSN (see Xam'd: Lost Memories), you would think mkv support would be something they understand PS3 owners would appreciate.

just a guess here, but they want to support people *buying* anime.

maybe all these pirate groups should support mp4 or avchd instead of non-standards that real companies don't use?

 

[Jim]

Looks like the gallery app can figure out and sort/group by a lot of crazy criteria, like children or adults, landscapes or portraits, colors used, number of people in the pictures, etc. I have to say, that looks damn cool.

And I actually do use the PS3 to look at photos. Digicam pics looks great on the HDTV. I take a bunch of pictures of the kids attach the USB cable, and we watch em right away.

 

[FightyF]

I'm pretty sure it was ironical. Seeing as there hasn't been a firmware update for quite some time now.

Maybe hasn't turned on his PS3 "for quite some time now"?

I like the photo viewer, and I'm considering getting my mom a PS3 for this function mainly (with the side benefit of BluRay and putting our HD home videos on there) because she loves viewing photos in HD on the big screen.

So I welcome such updates. Organization of photos IS a concern I had.

The only thing I'd wish for is the sort of photo viewing stuff Apple has for their Macs.

 

[Dizzle24]

I hope I will never catch you using your cellphone for something else than actually having a phone call. And be careful when installing stuff on your PC because there's a awfull lot of things that can be done in seperate machines.

You mean... I can do OTHER things with my computer machine besides computing?

This is FANTASTIC! Thank you for this terrific news.

 

[Vaandaviii]

mkv is in new Divx 7. So its a matter of time. But it will come.

MKV is not a codec, it's a container.

 

[M3wThr33]

Hopefully the 3.11 support will help my Divx files. I think I was able to get TVersity to handle everything but that.

Or else I'll just fuck around with PSM.

 

[zaccheus]

im getting a ps3 today.

is there anyway i can cheat and get all the gears for soul calibur iv?

 

[SiteSeer]

Exactly. If profiles and trophy information still takes light years to load, I'm sooo spamming that blog.

lightyears are a measure of distance, not time. but i agree with what you said!

 

[DrXym]

come on Sony, x264 support. MKV without x264 codec is like nothing.
If they want to improve photo system they should enable us to take screenshots about our progress.

I have lots of x264 encoded content. It just has to be muxed into an .mp4 container. There is also a limit on filesize and a few other things to be concerned about like lack of subs.

MKV support would be nice, but just getting MKV doesn't mean the PS3 will suddenly support everything you can stuff into it. DivX 7 is probably the best chance of MKV support but that only specifies certain formats and does not necessarily mean the PS3 will support others.

 

[spwolf]

Looks like the gallery app can figure out and sort/group by a lot of crazy criteria, like children or adults, landscapes or portraits, colors used, number of people in the pictures, etc. I have to say, that looks damn cool.

And I actually do use the PS3 to look at photos. Digicam pics looks great on the HDTV. I take a bunch of pictures of the kids attach the USB cable, and we watch em right away.

ps3 slideshows are mandatory at my house when family visits... so this is going to be awesome. Looking at blog entry, this looks like something they have spent quite few bucks developing, lol thanks crazy sony!

divx 3.11 is awesome, because some people have older movies... I use PS3 media server as extender anyway but i am sure many do not.

 

[mollipen]

Divx 3.11? What the hell? I can encode a 2-hour 720p movie into x264 in less than 1 hour and 20 minutes, Why in the world anyone use DivX? Even DivX 7 is painfully slow compared to x264.

This isn't about what you're converting now. It's about what you have sitting around from before. It'll be nice to get older stuff of interest onto the PS3 without an extra conversion.

Alos, MKV and OGG/OGM support would be nice as well as WMV Lossless.

MKV (and overall sub support), great. The OGG love I've never understood, and I can't even imagine why we'd want to get anywhere near WMV.

It's also the de-facto standard for anime fansubs. Considering Sony's interest in promoting anime on PS3/PSN (see Xam'd: Lost Memories), you would think mkv support would be something they understand PS3 owners would appreciate.

Yes, Sony wants to support anime by helping people use the #1 method for downloading anime for free instead of paying for it. That makes sense how?

 

[dfyb]

come on sony, gimme .srt support now

come on Sony, x264 support. MKV without x264 codec is like nothing.
If they want to improve photo system they should enable us to take screenshots about our progress.

http://blog.dfyb.net/?p=152
PS3 is already the king in terms of media streaming

 

[mollipen]

http://blog.dfyb.net/?p=152

PS3 is the king in terms of media streaming

Streaming isn't a solution for everybody, so a solution that uses streaming isn't a real solution.

 

[Ranger X]

You mean... I can do OTHER things with my computer machine besides computing?

This is FANTASTIC! Thank you for this terrific news.

Man, I'm glad to help you.

 

[LittleJohnny]

The Photo gallery application is actually pretty cool. Organize by facial expressions?? Lol

 

[todahawk]

AVIAddXsubs is all you need.

It's a free program that mixes an avi file + srt in about 3 minutes. Perfectly playable on Ps3. You can even mix up to 8 subs...

Sweet, thanks a ton for that link. I've been looking for something like that.

Sony's just messing with us on the clock thing, right? You can't tell me that's a hard fix or that someone hasn't mentioned it yet, right?

Even my wife bitches about it.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

I would love a choice of filters while playing BC games.

Also, Suikoden Tactics has little black bars along the sides while being played. i would love for them to fix that.

 

[Fersis]

The Photo gallery application is actually pretty cool. Organize by facial expressions?? Lol

organizing prOn pictures have never been so fun!

 

[so_awes]

OMG people stop crying about MKV and subtitle suppport, just check out this program: http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

it's like tversity but a lot better and it actually works.

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[ScrabbleBanshee]

God, I hope the Photo Gallery at least takes photos from your collection to display in all of those spots when it's booting up and on the main menu where it's showing pictures of random babies and dogs.

 

[RoboPlato]

Nevermind. I apparently can't read.

 

[RPS37]

Cross-game private chat, please.

 

[Dead Prince]

organizing prOn pictures have never been so fun!

Yeah but we won't know what "face" it'll use :lol

 

[xBerserker]

OMG people stop crying about MKV and subtitle suppport, just check out this program: http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

it's like tversity but a lot better and it actually works.

http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
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No PPC OS X support

But I saw this on there forum which gives me hope:

Yes, it's something on the todo list. I've been having some issues getting universal builds made for mplayer which the app uses.

It should be available in the next version if everything goes right.

 

[Christopher]

shut the fuck up about the damn clock already, just wait the 4/5 seconds for the thing to dissapear.

 

[patsu]

Who uses the PS3 as a picture library? :lol

The only pics I have on my PS3 are wallpapers.

Me !

What a waste of firmware!

Watching media on the big screen is better than the laptop LCD.

The only problem is the photo app should also work with pictures on DLNA servers. I am not sure if that's the case (probably not).

 

[Dunlop]

OMG people stop crying about MKV and subtitle suppport, just check out this program: http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

it's like tversity but a lot better and it actually works.

http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
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I'm having issues now, but it does work great.....except not for my 360's : (

yes I know is is ps3mediaserver, but I want a single solution damnit!

sidenote, there is like little info with this program. Do I need to disable the SSDP service like with TVersity?

Obviously the best would be for the systems to play these formats natively and not need to rely on homebrew apps (for us, not them)

 

[Angst]

The Photo gallery application is actually pretty cool. Organize by facial expressions?? Lol

Just think of the opportunities for your

Spoiler

my

porn collection!

 

[dfyb]

I'm having issues now, but it does work great.....except not for my 360's : (

yes I know is is ps3mediaserver, but I want a single solution damnit!

sidenote, there is like little info with this program. Do I need to disable the SSDP service like with TVersity?

Obviously the best would be for the systems to play these formats natively and not need to rely on homebrew apps (for us, not them)

are your ps3 and 360 hooked up to separate TVs...? why would you need it on both?

 

[Norml]

Photo gallery looks great

 

[so_awes]

shut the fuck up about the damn clock already, just wait the 4/5 seconds for the thing to dissapear.

they're just being silly about it.

 

[Philanthropist]

XMB Blu-Ray support is awesome. My download speeds on campus suck so it'll be nice for me. I assume DVD playback also supports the XMB?

Who said that? I only read there's going to be XMB themes included in Blu-ray movies, not that the XMB will work during playback. That said, I believe some Blu-ray movies keep you signed in as they work as if they were PS3 apps.

shut the fuck up about the damn clock already, just wait the 4/5 seconds for the thing to dissapear.

It's like 2 seconds, and there must be a software tech issue why they haven't done it differently already.

 

[spoon!]

This should also fix the trophy syncing error/save game error that people were getting when changing their psn id or password.

I hope so

 

[wotter]

shut the fuck up about the damn clock already, just wait the 4/5 seconds for the thing to dissapear.

Spoiler

I don't mind it myself

 

[RoboPlato]

Who said that? I only read there's going to be XMB themes included in Blu-ray movies, not that the XMB will work during playback. That said, I believe some Blu-ray movies keep you signed in as they work as if they were PS3 apps.

Damn, I read it wrong. I missed the word theme and thought that the theme thing was another feature of it.