Play DivX/Xvid/MP3 on your Playstation 2.

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Do you accept a ample accumulating of DVD's or DivX movies in your cub board, but don't apperceive how to comedy them apart after a desktop PC or don't appetite to affix your PC to TV via TV-out for accessible affidavit or Do you accept a Playstation 2 but don't apperceive how to accomplish an optimum use of your investment? In 10 mins you will apprentice how you can catechumen your aforementioned old PS2 into a Home Entertainment HUB. DVD burners and DVD-Rom's acceptable cheaper day-by-day, its absolutely acceptable to advancement all your movies into DVD's or advancement your mini library into abbreviate Xvid or DivX book format. You can abundance as-many-as six movies into one DVD in Xvid format. Of advance you can opt for fresh DivX players accessible in market, but wait, are these players acceptable enough? I don't anticipate so.

Why should one opt for PS2 rather than some media player? One, you can comedy air-conditioned PS2 games, all the adjoining kids will backbiting you and advise you. Two, you can comedy DVD's, CD's. Three, you can comedy DivX and Xvid book architecture movies. Four, you can accept to all those MP3's that you accept calm back 1972. Five, you can comedy all the movies from USB hard-disk.

Disclaimer! Ensure that you accurately own the aboriginal movies which you advancement in DivX or Xvid formats. I booty no albatross for any accident to your property. Booty your own risk.

Step 1:

You Need

Hardware:

1. Playstation 2

2. Blank CD

3. USB Hard Disk (Optional)

Software

1. CD Gen PS2

2. SMS Player

Step 2:

SMS is a DivX and MP3 amateur for the PS2.

Application SMS, you can beck movies and music appropriate to your TV. balloon about all the set-top boxes, balloon about the 'Media PC', if you accept a PS2, you accept all the accouterments you need.

Features of SMS include:

* Smooth DivX AVI Playback at appropriate resolution

* Pan/Scan and zooming

* Subtitles abutment (SRT and SUB)

* Visual seek (Fast Forward and Rewind)

* Multiple accent and appearance set abutment for subtitles added than English

* MP3 Playback

* AC3 Surround Support

* Full resolution

* Multilanguage

* Copy your movies and mp3's to your centralized HDD!

SMS will apprehend video files from a array of sources:

* Network Streaming

* USB Drives

* Hard Drives (both the Official Sony HDD and any accustomed PC HDD)

* CD/DVD-ROM (and NO modchip required!)

SMS can alike apprehend DVD-RW discs distinctively formatted with the DVD-Video filesystem, or CD-R Discs formatted with CDDAFS after defective a modchip or any Swap tricks.

Download SMS Player.

Download CDGenPS2.

Download USB.irx book which is allotment of Naplink.

Download the SYSTEM.cnf file.

Note: There are added Media players for PS2, But I chose SMS because I acquisition it best efficient.

Step 3:

Extract the CDGenPS2 zip book to any area on your drive. Launch the CDGenPS2 exe file.

Drag all the files in the appliance which you accept download (i.e SMS.elf, USB.irx, System.cnf)

Right bang on "System.cnf" and bang "Edit", analysis "Fix LBA", blazon 12231 in LBA "text box"

Click File->Create CD again Save

Voila! Bake to a CD (not DVD) application any of your favourite CD-Writer software.

Step 4:

Place the anew created CD into your PS2. Power On.

After the SMS amateur endless up. Replace the CD, with any DVD or CD which contains the DivX / Xvid or MP3's, aloof browse and comedy the files.

If you want, I accept created a CD-Image for you. Download SMS Amateur CD-Image Zip, abstract it, again bake it to your CD.