- #PS4 MEDIA PLAYER MKV FILES 1080P#
- #PS4 MEDIA PLAYER MKV FILES MP4#
- #PS4 MEDIA PLAYER MKV FILES UPDATE#
The console does support the H.265/HEVC standard, but only for streaming video and UHD Blu-rays.
#PS4 MEDIA PLAYER MKV FILES UPDATE#
Update 2 (March 29): A Microsoft representative confirmed to Polygon that the Xbox One S cannot play 4K video files or 4K HDR videos from USB media. Only the former video played in the app, indicating that Media Player does not support the H.265 compression standard. Update (March 28): After installing the PS4 Media Player’s version 3.0 update last night, we tried playing two different versions of the same 4K video: one encoded in H.264/AVC and one encoded in H.265/HEVC.
#PS4 MEDIA PLAYER MKV FILES 1080P#
While PSVR offers a resolution of 1080p - 960 x 1080 pixels per eye - Sony said that “4K VR videos will be displayed in a higher image quality compared to HD VR videos.” Of course, that’s useful only for customers who own both a PS4 Pro and a PlayStation VR headset. Today’s update to Media Player will also enable playback of 4K virtual reality content. To be clear, Microsoft doesn’t fare much better in this respect of the aforementioned services, only Netflix supports HDR on the Xbox One S. In fact, of the main streaming video services that offer HDR content and are available on the PS4 - Amazon Video, Netflix, Vudu and YouTube - not one of them supports HDR via its PS4 app. There’s no word on whether the Media Player update will add support for HDR content in addition to 4K we’ve asked Sony, but have not received comment as of this writing. (Sony added support for USB external storage in the PS4’s 4.50 firmware update two and a half weeks ago the feature requires formatting a hard drive specifically for use with the PS4.) If you’re using an external hard drive as an expansion of your PS4’s internal storage, that USB drive “can only be used to save games and apps - it can’t be used to save and play videos,” said Sony. Today’s update will also enable playback of 4K VR contentĬuriously, the Media Player app will only read videos on USB storage if that external device has not been formatted as additional storage for the PS4. We’ve reached out to Sony for further details on the PS4 Media Player’s 4K support, and will update this article with any information we receive. But the Xbox One S does not support playback of 4K content from USB drives, whether in the new H.265 standard (aka HEVC) or the older, more common H.264 format (aka AVC). Microsoft’s white Xbox One was the first 4K-compatible gaming console, and it supports 4K content via streaming video apps and its Ultra HD Blu-ray drive.
This feature gives the PS4 Pro a bit of a leg up on the Xbox One S.
(Unlike on the PlayStation 3, it’s not possible to copy files directly to the PS4’s internal hard drive.)
#PS4 MEDIA PLAYER MKV FILES MP4#
The update will allow owners of a PS4 Pro and a 4K television to play 4K-resolution MP4 files - not MKV or other formats - in the app, whether the videos are saved on a USB stick or streamed from a home server. MP4 is accepted well by PS4, so you can convert your video files to MP4, and then transfer the converted videos to the Play Station 4. To play unsupported movies on PS4, you need to convert video files to PS4 first. Sony is updating the PS4’s built-in Media Player app today with this feature, the company announced in a PlayStation Blog post. As we all know, not all video formats can be supported by PS4. Four and a half months after the debut of the PlayStation 4 Pro, the 4K-capable console will finally gain support for playback of 4K video files.
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