Hi everyone,

I recently got a PS5 and I’m loving it so far. However, I’ve run into a problem when I tried to watch TV shows that I’ve downloaded onto a USB drive. The Media Gallery on PS5 doesn’t play copyright-protected files.

I’m curious about how exactly copyrighted videos get detected on the PS5 and if there’s any workaround. I find it odd that I can play videos downloaded from YouTube but not ones from other sources.

  • eardon@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Eww.

    Imagine buying hardware that doesn’t let you use your software, lol.

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    7 months ago

    If you have the ability using Plex on the ps5 to stream your media to it is quite nice too

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    7 months ago

    What file extension are you trying to play? The copyright detection is simply derived from the video file metadata and its signature is checked against a database

    • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip
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      7 months ago

      Is that all they’re doing now? I haven’t used a ps for media since I think the ps3, which had that system that it would shut off the sound.