Play Station 3 System Software - Compatible Media Formats

Compatible Media Formats

The PlayStation 3 is capable of photo, audio, and video playback in a variety of formats. It also includes various photo slideshow options and several music visualizations. The following lists the photo, audio, and video formats that are supported on the PS3.

Image formats

• JPEG
• GIF
• TIFF
• BMP
• PNG
• MPO

Audio formats

• MP3
• MP3 Surround
• WAV
• WMA 9
• ATRAC
• Audio CD
• SACD
• MP4 Audio
• MPEG-4 Part 3
• AAC / AAC Low Complexity (unprotected)

Video formats

• MPEG-1 (MPEG Audio Layer 2)
• MPEG-2 PS (MPEG2 Audio Layer 2, AAC LC, AC3(Dolby Digital), LPCM)
• MPEG-2 TS (MPEG2 Audio Layer 2)
• VC-1 (.wmv)
• AVCHD (.m2ts / .mts)
• AVI
• DivX, DivX VOD
• XviD
• Motion JPEG (Linear PCM)
• Motion JPEG (μ-Law)
• MP4 Video
• MP4 via DivX AVI
• MP4 SP
• MP4 AVC / MP4 H.264
• DVD Video
• VOB
• BD Video format on Blu-ray Disc
• BD Video format on DVD-ROM

Notes:

• ^ a JPEG files must be DCF 2.0/Exif 2.21 compliant
• ^ b GIF images that display motion do not exhibit motion if viewed from the PS3's hard disk drive. Motion GIF images can be viewed in motion only online on a webpage, via the PS3's web browser.
• ^ c WMA/VC-1 and ATRAC playback must be manually enabled in .
• ^ d SACD is only available in 20 GB, 60GB, Motorstorm 80GB bundle, and MGS4 80 GB bundle versions
• ^ e DivX, XviD, 3ivx and other MPEG-4 Part 2 codec implementations work with a simple import into MP4. Xvid files are recognised as MPEG-4 since system software update 2.20, before this update they were recognised as DivX files.
• ^ f DivX video files that are copy protected are not playable on the PS3. DivX 3.11 files are now supported as of version 2.60. Certain DivX and XviD Files have been known to not play on the PS3, even though they are recognised correctly, however deleting the first few black frames from the file with a program such as Nandub can rectify this problem.
• ^ g MPEG-4 ASP is as yet unsupported
• ^ h Main Profile and High Profile MP4 AVC / H.264 are supported.
• The Matroska container (.mka / .mkv) is not playable by the PS3 on standard firmware, but programs such as Showtime (for jailbroken ps3's) can use the ps3's default codecs to play back these files. .mkv containers can be quickly converted to a PS3 compatible format for use on all PS3's by using a PC program such as mkv2vob.