Hi All,

I just got a PS3, and after upgrading the internal HDD to 320GB, I have dumped half a year's worth of unedited videos from my Sony SR7 on it.

To my dismay, I have been unable to get the PS3 to group my videos in some logical and manageable way, such as into folders by recording month.

The PS3 instead appears to group all of the videos by the month I copied them onto the external HDD that I used for transferring the videos from my PC to the internal PS3 HDD. So, I have almost 1000 videos in a single folder! It appears that the PS3 cannot detect the actual date of recording, which seems odd, given that Sony's own Picture Motion Browser has no problem doing so on my PC.

Is the date information not in the m2ts files, but in the modd or moff files? If so, is there a way to get them copied onto the PS3 and associated correctly with the video files?

Or is there another solution for getting the date information on the videos in a way the PS3 can detect?

I realize that I could rename or edit the videos one by one, but I would prefer some batch solution given the number of videos I have, and our preference to avoid editing if we can help it (with three kids, capturing video is all we have time for!).

I would very much appreciate it any thoughts or tips!

Thanks.

Joe

P.S. I would also love to play video files sequentially, e.g., one after another, as with a playlist. I understand that it's not currently possible. Please correct me (and direct me) if I'm wrong! FYI, I have firmware 2.36.

I've found a workaround, though it's not a very elegant or satisfying long-term solution.

Since the PS3 creates an "album" of videos for each day's imports, limit the videos downloaded to the PS3 on a particular day to those that you want in the same folder. Then, rename the folder to whatever you want (e.g., "November 2007" if you imported all of your videos from that month). Then, wait another day before importing videos that you'd want in another folder (like the videos from December 2007). Sort your videos by album, of course.

By means of this workaround, in a week, I'll have all my videos imported into the PS3 and sorted by month.

If anyone has a better solution, please share. Thanks!

Joe

I've found a workaround, though it's not a very elegant or satisfying long-term solution.

Since the PS3 creates an "album" of videos for each day's imports, limit the videos downloaded to the PS3 on a particular day to those that you want in the same folder. Then, rename the folder to whatever you want (e.g., "November 2007" if you imported all of your videos from that month). Then, wait another day before importing videos that you'd want in another folder (like the videos from December 2007). Sort your videos by album, of course.

By means of this workaround, in a week, I'll have all my videos imported into the PS3 and sorted by month.

If anyone has a better solution, please share. Thanks!

Joe

I don't have a PS3 to offer any alternatives. That said, you should be able to change the date on you PS3 to the actual recording date and copy them your way and be done with it!

Anyone found a solution to the sequential play of multible files yet?

Hi All,

I just got a PS3, and after upgrading the internal HDD to 320GB, I have dumped half a year's worth of unedited videos from my Sony SR7 on it.

To my dismay, I have been unable to get the PS3 to group my videos in some logical and manageable way, such as into folders by recording month.

The PS3 instead appears to group all of the videos by the month I copied them onto the external HDD that I used for transferring the videos from my PC to the internal PS3 HDD. So, I have almost 1000 videos in a single folder! It appears that the PS3 cannot detect the actual date of recording, which seems odd, given that Sony's own Picture Motion Browser has no problem doing so on my PC.

Is the date information not in the m2ts files, but in the modd or moff files? If so, is there a way to get them copied onto the PS3 and associated correctly with the video files?

Or is there another solution for getting the date information on the videos in a way the PS3 can detect?

I realize that I could rename or edit the videos one by one, but I would prefer some batch solution given the number of videos I have, and our preference to avoid editing if we can help it (with three kids, capturing video is all we have time for!).

I would very much appreciate it any thoughts or tips!

Thanks.

Joe

P.S. I would also love to play video files sequentially, e.g., one after another, as with a playlist. I understand that it's not currently possible. Please correct me (and direct me) if I'm wrong! FYI, I have firmware 2.36.

i think i have the same problem as klausflorida when i have transferd raw avchd files strait from the cam to my ps3 the files will only play back one file at a time to play another file i must press stop before playing another.have you tried playing raw files on your ps3,i have tried exporting multiple mts files with nero vision but i think it would take at least 3hrs to encode 20 mins of footage,do you have any knowledge of doing this.if so what settings do you use when exporting.

Let's start an email campaign to Sony to add playlist capability for .mts files on the PS3! Or at the very least, consecutive file play back, allowing the use of the "skip to next file" button on the controller! It should be a very easy feature to implement.

I just left a message here:
http://www.us.playstation.com/corporate/ConsumerServices

I think AVCHD files will playback sequentially IF you playback the AVCHD folder.

Last night I stuck my memory stick from my TG1 into the PS3 and pressed "X" on the AVCHD folder and it played my AVCHD files like it was a Blu-Ray or a DVD disc. Bennefits is that your AVCHD files will playback sequentially and that Tiime Code appears as Closed Captions.

Sony PMB offers the ability to create an AVCHD Disc and I'll assume that when inserted into the PS3, the AVCHD disc will also playback like a DVD or Blu-Ray disc. So, is there a way to create a HUGE "data disc" onto a USB HD and connect that to the PS3 and have it behave just like a Blu-Ray or DVD disc?

I guess my goal is to group my AVCHD files in chronological order, prefereable all on one hard disc and have Time Code appear on the screen.