Hacking Reading HD-DVDs with the Xbox external HDDVD player... with a PS3

[QueenKong]

Hi !
As many of you guys do, I use my PS3 as a media center. However, I also have a huge collection of HD-DVDs that I'd like to keep. As it is just an external accessory that is also Windows compatible, I'd like to know if it would be possible to create a homebrew that would allow to read HDDVDs with a PS3 ?

Thanks ! ;-)

 

[uyjulian]

1. copy HD-DVD to PC
2. Convert HD-DVD to MP4
3. Put MP4 on external storage device
4. Plug external storage device into PS3
5. Play MP4 and enjoy :-)

 

[WiiCube_2013]

1. copy HD-DVD to PC
2. Convert HD-DVD to MP4
3. Put MP4 on external storage device
4. Plug external storage device into PS3
5. Play MP4 and enjoy :-)

That's some horrible advice you've given him, unless you meant it to be uncompressed which I'm not sure it'd be.

Now, QueenKong, you can't really watch HD-DVDs on PlayStation 3 but if you rip them to your PC's HDD it'll work, you could try MakeMKV which is compatible with DVD and Blu-ray so it may work.

 

[codezer0]

The first and most glaring issue is that the DRM engines for BluRay and HD-DVD are different enough that trying to handle that real-time might be enough to make it not possible. Heck, I'm surprised that Microsoft cracked it so that it could be decoded over a USB cable in the first place.

I suppose with the master key, someone could try to make a homebrew to do it, but they'd also have to code a working driver.