How to Get FLV Playable on PS4/PS3

PS3 or its successor PS4 is more than a video game console. They can be served as good portable media devices form video enjoyment. While, there are some format limits on PS4, PS3. If you are wondering how to play FLV on PS4/PS3, you are in the right place. In this article, we will give you an easy and quick way to access and play FLV no PS4, PS3 with the best quality.

To get FLV files playable on PS4, PS3, the priority is to convert FLV to PS4/PS3 playable format like MP4. Here we recommend Brorsoft Video Converter to help you get the work done. Overall, it can professionally convert FLV to PS3, PS4 supported video format with fast speed and excellent output quality. In addition, this video converter can also convert various popular video formats like AVI, VOB, WMV, MPEG, MOV, MKV, 3GP, etc to optimized video for playback on iPad, iPod, iPhone, Xbox 360, Wii, Kindle Fire HD and more. If you are a Mac user, you can turn to Brorsoft Video Converter Mac (El Capitan included), which allows you to convert FLV to PS3/PS4 on Mac OS X easily.

Converting FLV to PS4/PS3 friendly video format

Step 1. Launch the best FLV file converter and click the add button to load FLV files. If necessary, you can double click the each file to have a preview.

Step 2. Click on the dropdown menu of "Format" and then move your pointer to "PSP/PS3". From the sub-list, the "PS3 Video(480P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)", "PS3 Video(720P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)", "PS3 Video(1080P) MPEG-4(*.mp4)" are all the friendly formats for both PS3 and PS4.

Step 3. Click the "Convert" button; it will encode FLV files to PS3/PS4 supported file type immediately. You can find the process in the "Conversion" interface.

Note: Once you got the converted FLV videos ready to be added to PS3 or PS4, you can refer to the different ways to put videos to PS3/PS4.

A. For adding videos to PS3, easy as pie. If you're using a USB flash or hard disc or an SD or CF card, just dump all of your videos into a folder named VIDEO on the root of the drive and they'll show up automatically.

B. Currently there are many topics about how to play videos on PS4. As most guys complained, the PS4 does not support external HDD, and you cannot view movies on PS4 through USB as well. Luckily, there is a workaround for you to get videos from PC to PS4. You can just stream your video files to PS4 from PC via Plex：

1. Download Plex Media Server from https://my.plexapp.com/downloads and set up your media before signing into Plex through the Settings.
2. Then, you navigate to https://my.plexapp.com/ on your PS4 through the browser and sign-in.
3. Head to your media server and voila. You have access to all your DLNA media.