Media Player Coming to PS4 Tonight

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Media Player Coming to PS4 Tonight

Hello PlayStation Nation! Every time we announce new features for PS4 here on PlayStation.Blog, I love going into the comments to answer your questions and see feedback on which features people really like and which ones people still want to see. One of those questions I have been able to count on has been, “Where is our PS4 media player?”

If you were watching our E3 press conference pre-show, you probably heard the good news – Media Player for the PS4 will be available to download from PlayStation Store this evening. A Media Player icon will appear in the PS4 content area, simply select the icon and you will be taken to the PS Store where you can begin the download.

Media Player Coming to PS4

The Media Player works with both your home server and when plugging a USB stick with media into one of the available ports on the PS4. Your home server will appear as a media option in the player automatically and finding your media is simple and quick. You may also simply enjoy music as background music on your PS4!

Of course, we know what you really want to see: look below to see supported video and audio file formats and codec details.

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File Formats and Codecs

Video

MKV

  • Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
  • Audio: MP3, AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)

AVI

  • Visual: MPEG4 ASP, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
  • Audio: MP3, AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)

MP4

  • Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
  • Audio: AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)

MPEG-2 TS

  • Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2, MPEG2 Visual
  • Audio: MP2(MPEG2 Audio Layer 2), AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)
  • AVCHD: (.m2ts, .mts)

Photo

  • JPEG (based on DCF 2.0/Exif 2.21)
  • BMP
  • PNG

Music

  • MP3
  • AAC (M4A)

Media Player Coming to PS4

We know the Media Player has been a highly-requested feature for PS4 and we want to thank you for passionate feedback. I know the Media Player will be a favorite new feature for PS4 owners who love to use their PS4 as the entertainment center of their living room. What other features would you like to see come to PS4? Let us know in the comments!

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494 Comments

  • I guess this is an OK start, but it doesn’t work with anything other than a very small subset of the .mpg format. I couldn’t get it to display any image format, even though they are on the list. Only a few .mpg files actually worked, but not entirely correctly. Either the aspect ratio wasn’t preserved, or some sort of over-scan was being enforced that cut-off the edges of the videos.

    YOU’VE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO, TO MAKE THIS USABLE!

  • Love the Media player app,but please add support for .srt files and DTS 5.1 audio(for MKV files)

  • SUBTITLE support (.srt, .sub…) would be essential.
    please and thank you.

  • Playing my own audio collection on drive club with the help of my NAS is a wonderful feature.
    However, could you fix and order the playlists by track number instead of by track name ? This is so confusing … Thanks

  • Dear Sir,

    Would like to have option for Other OS. ( Other operating system, Linux). And want to buy paid softwares and also free softwares . A few examples are FTP softwares, driver softwares for old steering wheels & fight sticks, softwares to allocate two or more wireless headphones to one user, clock software, custom GUI, second user or multiple user via computer login WAN to accompany and to see one another while gaming – IP login.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    IP web camera CCTV for baby watching surveillance software from WAN, Great Sony Chat rooms from ps4 console, peer to peer remote connection protocol, automatic switch on and alarm and calendar and notes, Sony firewall, option to take printouts of anything through USB or wireless, option to shop products at any websites internationally ( flash support and such ) , Sony artefacts for party rooms Customized GUI, Sony email (please).

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Sony music making app with music notation, giving all Sony apps totally for to all geographic locations, Sony gym exercising platform, Sony in-game points or loyalty points and bonuses to buy listed Sony products as TV or other Sony peripherals, multiple user login to pool money from different credit cards around the world into single virtual credit card to pool in and buy WAN online games from a shared e-commerce protocol – for renting games across multiple persons across the globe who are friends together.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Sony cookery apps, support for pdf format and other jpeg/jpg and other such comic book support (paid software(?)), Sony wireless home Intercom and Sony app from smartphone integration so that mum could call PS4 while gamer is gaming with headphones (Please) , Sony software for backing up contents and songs and videos to NAS storage and cloud backup, firmware update to include game specific blogs from inside ps4 menu, firmware update with ability to make http links inside a drop down menu from the Ps4 menu directly which opens any links.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Firmware update to include the ability for user made links to other user IDs video and game broadcasting – on ps4 menu. Menu reconfiguration because menu extends too long – want paged and tabbed and notebook like menus. Ps4 warranty look up and international warranty extension and international warranty within ps4 menu. User configurable alias ID.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,
    P2P to share free indie games from library across all Ps4 and Sony Consoles. P2P sharing of music and videos across all Ps4 and Sony consoles. Ps4 administrative privileges. Ps4 group policy LAN software user administration property sheet. Sony smart TV apps total integration through Ps4 for non-smart-TV, firmware update for cloud server, firmware update for chat rooms and from chat room to share play linkage ( chat room feature inside ps4 ), customizable PSN user ID search facility.
    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Choice of options for “paid” Sony GUI / OS from Sony. Sony USB HDD game installation facility. More options for Ps4 game pad Bots like encyclopedia question and answer integration from Ps4 gamepad Bot auto text to audio speech by Bot.. Mini games for game pad Bot with user and Bot card games and board games and snooker games with Bot from ps4 game pad. Gambling games with game pad Bot to earn bonus points to shop ps4 other peripherals like TV and Sony products.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Remote controller for Blu-ray videos and player “customizable” set up integration within Ds4. Ds4 central locking and screen lock customizable key combination registers. Ds4 to Sony TV customizable TV remote controller interface from game pad buttons. Ds4 female Bots included to purchase from Sony store. Ds4 LAN ‘Buzzer’ software to smart phone Sony app and messaging from Ps4 with Ds4 to smartphone Sony App.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Ds4 touchpad allocation centers for allocating different functions on touchpad virtual grid. Ds4 drawing with stylus on touchpad. User input voice personal diary recording, Ps4 support for more than three HDD and raid support drivers for backup purposes in large quantities. Blu-ray or DVD once inserted and option to see it’s various inserted-disk parameters. Recording facility from PS camera to HDD.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Self user sung song recording and notation composing software and print outs via LAN printer and USB printer or wireless. Ps4 to smartphone game play recording upload facility. Ps4 to WAN other added Sony TV around globe watching friends TV on Users Ps4 connected TV (something like share playing Sony TV screens of other Sony TV/ps4 users Television channels around the globe – Sony TV sharing 480p/720p/1080p/other resolutions).

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    International news updates with pictures app for all geographic locations Ps4 around the entire globe and news article copy features for personal file database to copy and keep important articles, for research – within Ps4 HDD. Ps4 Gaming encyclopedia chronicles databases for worldwide user research from Ps4 main menu. Ds4 motion controlled and touch sensitive ps4 snooze software alarm clock with auto game play as wake up alarm. Smartphone app integration for Ps4 input-output-other-details statistics log customizable logged updated report.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Ps4 scratched-disk override functions with firmware update. ” A Blu-ray from SONY PS4 (PAID) to check everything inside ps4 and to show all sorts of graphs to verify system stability and error display and reset and such maintenance Blu-ray Sony Diskette for Ps4 which allows us to carry out all of the user related maintenance function via the Blu-ray Disk. Ps4 HDD error log-sheet database and hardware statistical software for HDD. Ds4 wear and tear graphical log-sheet. Uptime statistics, error time probability, A full fledged pro Blu-ray Sony maintenance disk.

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Ps4 multi-window page OS for ps4 menu. Ps4 to login into router/switch menu. Ps4 power consumption reading and customizable value in global currencies. Ps4 heat reading and software heat display meter. Ps4 “switch on and switch off and reboot” with customizable Ds4 button allocation. Ps4 benchmarking & statistical probabilities. Ps4 Ds4 automatic motion controlled pairing so that when one picks up the Ds4 it automatically pairs. Ps4 Ds4 wireless transmission signal strength graphical field statistic to see if signal strength is strong when sitting in distant sofa or across room (graphical sonar like representation from ps4 menu).

    Thanks.

  • Dear Sir,

    Ps4 PSN wallet virtual credit card with savings increment input and savings from international credit cards from across Globe for parents to fund wallet or sibling(s) to fund wallet in increments who might be working abroad. Ps4 networking to Linux platforms, SMB, Network storage NAS storage connectivity gaming to play PSN games stored in NAS storage (please).

    Thanks.

  • Would like to have backward compatibility for PS3 games

  • As was posted in probably by a few others: VOLUME CONTROL for media. PS3 had the ability to increase the volume on what you were playing in case the volume by default was a bit low. It would be nice to see that feature again.

  • Please add the following features:

    External subtitle support
    The ability to switch audio tracks in dual audio .mkv files.

  • Currently this app is useless.I am so disappointed.
    – Subtitles not supported
    -External drives with Ntfs not supported
    -Many formats are not supported.This player couldn’t play half of the movies on which I have tried it.

    • So far i haven’t had any issues. Granted I by default knew that the drive was supposed to be in FAT32 format. Have my drive connected directly to my router (Has 2 USB ports available) and DLNA works pretty well so far. As far as formats not working. Haven’t had any issues yet, but then again, not that many formats tried. Most are pretty much the same.

      I agree with people being frustrated with formats not being supported, but i’d like to also know. Other than MKV (Which others have claimed to be working) What other formats are you trying to use? NTFS btw (From my understanding) is proprietary, and in some ways makes sense that it’s not supported. It’s Microsoft that essentially “created” it. I know it’s just being nit-picky but that’s the best way i can understand it. FAT32 just happens to be more universal. If i were to have created an external HDD that was say, OSX Journaled, my router and the PS4 would also not be able to read it (Btw, isn’t the PS4 OS Unix or Linux based?). Sorry to be devil’s advocate but the thought crossed my mind as i was reading some of this thread.

      If i’m wrong, i’m wrong, but that’s my current understanding.

  • This is great news! Finally a Media Player in the PS4 is great. I do have a question though, which related to the PS4 being a Media Center. Are there any plans to add Motion Control to the home screen in order to start games / apps? I do recall reading it was planned but I didn´t read any update on that so I just want to ask about it. That would be something good to add when thinking of the PS4 as a media center in my opinion.

    Thanks!!

  • Why can’t I copy files over from usb to the hdd? Seems very backwards to leave in the usb permanently to play files to the ps4. The ps3 would let you copy files to the hdd. The usb stick is designed to tranfer files via all media device and sony is restricting people from doing so. Sony really are a backwards company at times and frustrating. Give us all the option to copy file to the hdd now sony.

    This isn’t a true media player it’s been restricted of the most vital part in my mind,by restricting people from copying there file direct to the hdd. I will keep on bugging sony about this until it’s fixed.

    • Honestly i’d rather have the files NOT on the PS4 hdd since i only have the default 500gb one ATM. But the fact you can play from NAS is really nifty and that’s what i’ve been using and so far it’s been pretty awesome for that. I’m okay with not being able to transfer video to the ps4 HD. IMHO.

  • Please update this app. Streaming from my pc is garbage right now, it craps out every ~15 minutes at least it remembers where it crashed. The media streamer on my 4 year old tv is more solid than this. Background info, pc and ps4 are both on the same wifi network.

  • There’s one thing I really want & many others I’m sure . I want to be able to set pictures as my wallpaper on my ps4 like PS3. Should’ve been able to from the start.

  • Very disappointing. Less functionality that the original XMBC. And please fix the audio by giving us audio pass-through, and not cripple support by your limited codecs. HDTVs with their $5 SoC have better functionality that this.

  • Two thumbs up for media player.

    Next features:
    1. Add the ability to individually back up games on to an external HDD.
    2. Support for NTFS file system for USB drives for media player and music player.
    3. Local storage for images, videos and music files.
    4. Ability to queue downloads for us people with poor poor internet speed.

    This will be all for now… Hope these things get worked on.

  • I’m having some issues encoding videos for viewing on the PS4 media player using Handbrake and I’m hoping someone has already figured this out. Does the Media Player support MKV with multiple audio/subtitle streams? Does anyone have a set of settings that works well? Or are we limited to only using one audio stream with a subtitle burn in option? (not ideal)

    • My mkv files are ALL in DTS, and for the few that happen to have Dolby audio also, they playback is for visually impaired since it announces everything that is seen on screen. Great feature for visually impaired people, but not so much for me.

  • This is such great news!

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add DTS audio support!!!
    I play my legally purchased bluray collection from a media server and nearly ALL of my movies are encoded with DTS.

    Please add DTS and DTS HD audio support!!
    Please add DTS and DTS HD audio support!!
    Please add DTS and DTS HD audio support!!
    Please add DTS and DTS HD audio support!!
    Please add DTS and DTS HD audio support!!
    Please add DTS and DTS HD audio support!!
    Please add DTS and DTS HD audio support!!
    Please add DTS and DTS HD audio support!!

    Sorry to nag, just hoping people at sony notice the request :)

  • Playing music cd’s would be great.
    Scene select like on ps3 would be great.
    Video running in sync with voice would be nice also. So an update or xvid dix support would be great (like The Xbox one).
    Errr skype like on psp.
    Simple really.

  • Handbrake Options: After much toiling on my own I’ve figured out a set of Handbrake options that allow for PS4 viewing via Media player.
    • Picture Tab: Not much to change here, Used:
    o Anamorphic :Loose
    o Modulus: 2
    o Cropping: Automatic
    • Filters:
    o Deinterlace: Deinterlace
    o Everything else: Off
    • Video
    o Video Codec: H.264
    o FPS: Same as source, variable Framerate
    o Quality: I used 5, consider using around 15 for near DVD quality. Blue Ray is below 10. (The lower this setting the larger the file)
    • Video: This is debatable as well, the faster your computer (ie: I7) the slower you want to go with this. I used one tic below very slow. (19 gig blue ray takes about 3 hours to encode on an older I7 with an Nvidia 740.)

  • • Audio: Sadly we only get one stream here, select your preferred language,
    o use the AAC (avcodec) Bitrate: can be changed doesn’t effect playback
    o Mixdown: Dolby Pro Logic II
    • Subtitles: Leave this blank, If you have to have subtitles(Manga or Some new movies with sign language dialog) Add ONE subtitle track and select the Burn In option.
    • Chapters: Editing these didn’t effect playback(PS4 seems to ignore chapters)
    • Output Settings: Container MP4
    • If you’re having issues with playback or recognizing the file in Media Player, change the .m4v extension to .mp4 in your file browser. Reboot your PC(Video Storage Device), and then rescan the DLNA(restart Media Player) Hope this helps clear up some stuff for everyone. Happy Viewing.

  • Okay, Thanks, but please add DTS Codec support, we need DTS-HD/MA, and give us the option to view the current bitrate and codec output specs. I also would recommend allowing us to decide on any downsampling the player may be doing. The PS4 has the horsepower to do it, please let us. Lastly if you could support Auro 3-D and Dolby Atmos, that would make this the best box period.

  • Hello everybody

    One question for me this media server application can be downloaded in europe or just in US?
    Because i wait this option for my decision to buy a PS4… or not :)

    Thanks a lot

  • Great it’s finally here, but won’t play .wmv files? is there going to be an update for this as I have a mix of file formats to play

  • Very happy! Thanks Sony!

  • @ KazeEternal that is why you make your hard drive external where you can get 3.5″ hard drives and you won’t have space issues after that..
    You need a pc power supply and a male to female sata/ power plug.
    Cut the power wires down and trim carefully with wire snips the end that goes into the hard drive. Cut the power side off and plug the sata plug into the hard drive, you might have to trim a little more plastic to fit the power plug in from the power supply.
    But take off a little at a time so you don’t ruin the plug.

    And bam you have an external hard drive..

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