The PS3, AVCHD, 50i, 30p question

[mattr]

Hi all,

So the UK PS3 plays 50i AVCHD disks and memory sticks at 1080/50i. Which is lovely. Copy AVCHD clips off the memory stick on the local hard disk and it plays them at 30p which gives vile judder and motion artifacts. Rubbish.

I was planning on storing all my TG3 footage on a USB disk and playing them via the PS3. Clearly that's not going to play well. So .. the question is are there AVCHD authoring packages that will dump out an AVCD directory structure to a disk (rather than having to burn a blu-ray disk). That way all my clips are still on the hard disk but saved in a suitable structure to get the PS3 to play them correctly ? I reckon that would work.

Has anyone done something like this ? It would save spending £150 on a blu-ray burner.

Ta,
Matt

[xmb]

You can always just make a DVD of your files (OK only enough room for about 30 minutes at best quality)? You don't need a Blue-Ray writer.

But I though it would also work from an external disk drive?

Have you checked your settings in the Playstation? (I don't have one .....yet.)

[mattr]

Actually I reckon most burners would support burning to an ISO image, I just need to unpack the ISO image onto my disk then. That might work ?

[mattr]

Originally Posted by xmb

You can always just make a DVD of your files (OK only enough room for about 30 minutes at best quality)? You don't need a Blue-Ray writer.

But I though it would also work from an external disk drive?

Have you checked your settings in the Playstation? (I don't have one .....yet.)

The .MTS files play from an external drive, it's just the PS3 stays in 30p mode (it might be 60p actually). It should switch to 50i so as to avoid juddering from trying to match frame rates. I can't find any setting in the PS3 to force the frame rate, the most I can set is the resolution. I can choose 1080i, but that just results in 60i which is still juddery.

I don't fancy burning loads of DVDs - I wanna watch 'em off my hard disk. Ho hum. Should have got the US version of the TG3, I'd be sorted.