Unlock More Video & Audio Formats on the PS3 with Movian!

Movian, now called Movian M7 and before that Showtime Media Center, is a homebrew media player available across multiple devices but has a special home on the PS3. Not only has it been known on the PS3 for well over a decade, but continued support and development on it made me want to highlight this homebrew application in a dedicated video for those who might not know about it. Although the PS3 isn't the media center powerhouse it once was, many people still enjoy the media playback capabilities it has, and Movian expands upon those by allowing additional video and audio formats to be played. It also features local and internet based streaming options, subtitle support, multiple audio track support, and an infinite amount of settings to tweak your playback experience to your own perfection.

This video assumes you already own a console modified with CFW or PS3HEN. It is also assumed the viewer has a basic understanding of how to navigate their console.

#PS3Modding #Movian

This video has been made with Fair Use in mind and has been created as an educational piece of media.

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Timestamps!

0:00 - Intro
1:48 - Prerequisites
2:19 - Download & Install
4:06 - Basic Usage
8:01 - A Word on Network Services
9:34 - Delving Into Settings
11:09 - Unsupported Audio Formats Work!
12:08 - Outro

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[blainelocklair]

Awesome! We both put out a Movian video on the same day - and neither of us knew it was coming! If that isn't two great minds thinking alike, I don't know what is. :) Thanks for putting together so many great videos over the years. You're like Ferris Bueller: you're a righteous dude. :)

[MmntechCa]

PS3 was an absolute beast of an HTPC back in the day. I remember discovering it could play VOB (DVD rip) files natively, AND you could use DLNA to stream them over a network. This was before Plex. Would I bother with Movian today? Probably not. There's lots of options now that will do it. The Xbox One S and Series S, which both have native Kodi and VLC apps, make excellent media players if you want something you don't have to fart around with. But I always applaud those who are keeping these older consoles not just alive, but adding new features as well.

[Sampsonay]

Mr. Mario uploading a video = good day.

[d-tech]

MKV is just a container, it'll work fine as long as the video codec is one that's natively supported by the PS3 (e.g. x264). If the video codec is natively supported by the PS3 then Movian uses the native support to play it, regardless of the container format, so that's why MKV-x264 works. When it comes to x265, unfortunately the PS3 does not have native support, and while Movian includes ffmpeg, the performance is awful for the same reason why many games of the time that were released for both the PS3 and the Xbox 360 performed better on the 360 - If you want something to perform well on the PS3 you need to code it specifically for the PS3, and you need to use these 6 extra SPU cores if you want to achieve anything. Theoretically x265 on the PS3 is very possible, but only if someone reimplements it from scratch specifically for the PS3.

[TheGunmanChannel]

Uncanny timing mate, I've just started using this for watching TV shows, there's something about owning media, even if it's just on an HDD. Streaming sites were so convenient but I'm definitely moving away from a lot of them, YouTube will always be king tho.

[RDJ]

Using Movian for years, only swapped it for movies to my NVIDIA shield and the reason was the H265 that it cant play. For the rest great media player.

[Roshenbo]

I hope this is a new updated version of this app. Because the version I have sucks! It hardly plays ANYTHING I throw at it.

[----Matrix----]

Is there any way to watch original bluray disc movie with external subtitles on PS3?

[EgonSorensen]

This reminded me so much of XBMC on the OG XBOX.
Is there something similar to this on PS4?
I know there's a PS4 media player natively, but.. Miss those extra options shown here, it's hard to setup streaming from own server - having to register accounts, etc. 😞
Or am I missing something?

[SpyYoshi]

it crashes apon openning (ps3hen user here)

[cyphaborg]

Navigating our consoles? what is this sorcery?.

:p

[clarencioo]

I'm using movian as file manager 😆

[fredyrocazaurus]

Anyone getting unable to open resource error? Please help!!

[adrianrodriguez-izwr]

movian needs to be ported to ps4 and ps5 as the media players suck

[youbbi.]

Brother, I have this application and it contains many movies, but in Russian

[Brandin-efqh]

0 reason to use this. kodi works on Xbox series consoles and can do the same thing and play 4K movies