Did someone succeeded in playing H.264 high def video files from the local network or from external hard drive?

I believe someone did it using VLC on linux, but I heard it wasn't the best. Audio was all messed up and the video was choppy I think...

I read about it on www.ps3-hacks.com

MPEG4 AVC (i.e. h.264) is natively supported by the PS3. It will play either locally or over the network.

The AVC stream just needs to be 4.1 main profile or less and the audio usually has to be AAC. Then wrap it all in an .mp4 container and it should play.

EDIT: someone on Doom9 reports some recent improvements with the PS3 mpeg4 playback (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1012526#post1012526), but I've not heard anyone else claim this:
The PS3 can play high profile AVC and AAC HE with 1.8 firmware. Still though it downsamples 5.1 audio to stereo and 1080i mpeg playback is broken, stops few seconds after it starts.

MPEG4 AVC (i.e. h.264) is natively supported by the PS3. It will play either locally or over the network.

The AVC stream just needs to be 4.1 main profile or less and the audio usually has to be AAC. Then wrap it all in an .mp4 container and it should play.




That just seems like way to much work to me.

It's not work, it's just the standard.