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Bob · 01-21-2010, 01:52 PM

So long as your iPod remains FAT32 formatted, there is no way to have a file > 4 GB. You're just using it to transfer files? You can split the file using any decent compression tool (don't compress, just store+split--WinRar or 7-Zip can do this). Recombining on the PS3 will be tricky, if not simply impossible. PS3s, as I understand it, can only read FAT32 externally (it uses something else internally), and there doesn't seem to be a way to transfer via network either (that doesn't involve crap like web servers).

You may have to re-encode with Handbrake and fix the file size to < 4GB.

01-21-2010, 01:52 PM	#4
Bob Franchise Player Join Date: Jan 2007 Exp:	So long as your iPod remains FAT32 formatted, there is no way to have a file > 4 GB. You're just using it to transfer files? You can split the file using any decent compression tool (don't compress, just store+split--WinRar or 7-Zip can do this). Recombining on the PS3 will be tricky, if not simply impossible. PS3s, as I understand it, can only read FAT32 externally (it uses something else internally), and there doesn't seem to be a way to transfer via network either (that doesn't involve crap like web servers). You may have to re-encode with Handbrake and fix the file size to < 4GB.