Fix PS3 TVersity "Data Type Is Not Supported" Error on MPEG-4 Files
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TVersity is a powerful free media server software that supports a huge variety of video streaming platforms like the Sony PS3. However, with some MPEG-4 videos, the PS3 outputs a "The data type is not supported" error and refuses the play the video file. The reason for this is because for PS3, TVersity is configured to let its target platform to natively try to play the MPEG4 video file. But not all MPEG4 files are the same, as the MPEG-4 Part 2 files will not play natively on the PS3 and will cause the data type not supported error to appear. As a workaround that will not affect other MPEG-4 formats that can be played natively, you can make this simple modification to your TVersity configuration so that only MPEG-4 Part 2 files will be transcoded by TVersity and not affect other video formats.
- Open up Windows Explorer and browse to the TVersity installation on C:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server.
- Open the profiles.xml file with a text editor to modify it.
- Search for "Playstation 3" to get to the PS3 profile. In my file, it was around line #857.
- Search for the exact text:
<codec name="MPEG4"/><!-- XVID, h263, DIVX version 4/5 and any mpeg4 ASP (layer 5) compliant stream (H264, AKA MPEG4 AVC or MPEG4 layer 10 or MPEG4.10, is not included here)-->
and delete it. Careful, it may appear in other hardware profiles, so make sure you delete it from the Playstation 3 profile only. For me, it was about 90 lines down. Make sure you are deleting from the "video/mp4" mimetype and not the "video/avi" mimetype a little bit further below which is a similar line but isn’t exactly the same.
- Once this line has been deleted, TVersity will transcode the MPEG-4 Part 2 video files but continue to allow the PS3 to natively play supported MPEG-4 formats, as well as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2.
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hey um its not working because my computer is deining me access
amazing stuff thanx :)
You’re brilliant! You made my day!! Thanks.
Didn’t work for me. The file I am trying to play is an episode of The Amazing Race. It is an AVI mpeg-4 file. I deleted the code you said and there was no difference. I decided to delete the same code under the AVI section and that then changed the error to “The Data Is Corrupted”.
Does anyone else have any experience with this?
I tried this, but I still get the same ‘data is corrupted’ error.
I am trying to access the BBC iPlayer material on my PS3 via TVersity, but to no avail.
My PS3 did an update the other night and I have just installed the newest latest version of the Pro version of TVersity.
If I can’t use TVersity like this, I guess I won’t be paying for it…!
I tried it and it didn’t work for me either. TVersity 1.6 PS3 firmware 3.80