Downloading videos from Stage6

by Andrew Yoon { Dec 18th 2007 at 9:00PM }

Stage6 is widely known amongst DivX fans as one of the best places to get high quality streaming DivX video. Unfortunately, the site isn't compatible with the PS3 ... or is it?

It is, so long as you're willing to fiddle around with the PS3's web browser a bit. Go to a Stage6 video you're interested in. For example, we've chosen the PS3's recent Universe of Entertainment ad. Edit the URL in your PS3 browser by pressing START.

URL displayed by browser:
http://www.stage6.com/PS3/video/1827927/PLAYSTATION%C2%AE3---Universe-of-Entertainment

To download this DivX file to your DivX-enabled PS3, you're going to have to edit the video as such:

http://video.stage6.com/1827927/.divx

That's it! Press START, and your PS3 will start downloading the DivX file directly to your hard drive. You can do this with any video on Stage6. All you have to do is follow this formula:
http://video.stage6.com/VIDEO-NUMBER/.divx

Any other information is unnecessary! This only takes a few seconds, and you'll have high quality DivX files any time you wish.

Tags: divx, stage6

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kevin @ Dec 18th 2007 9:05PM

Awesome. This is most definetly going to be useful.

WTangoFoxtrot @ Dec 19th 2007 12:57AM

a suggestions. for those using TVersity to stream accross their media, you can add the RSS from stage6 as RSS feeds on TVersity and then access is from the video feeds menu in the ps3. i use this for my 360 and there is no stress on the PC hosting tversity as its just streaming and not transcoding.
just incase you guys wanted to know....

Levi @ Dec 19th 2007 12:12PM

Hopefully this thing I put together will help people out: http://ps3.wtf0.com/

Trying to figure out how to get searching working and some other features. Sorry for the layout, only put it together in about 5 mins.

Binaryfiend @ Dec 18th 2007 9:07PM

Oh very cool. Thanks!!

Token White Guy @ Dec 18th 2007 9:17PM

Yeah, Stage 6 is all kinds of awesome. Way better than Youtube.

lovingps3owner @ Dec 18th 2007 9:22PM

Call of Duty 4 update 1.1 is online now!

Doug @ Dec 18th 2007 9:25PM

it doesnt work on my ps3, no video screen shows up but everything around it does? why is that?

Darren @ Dec 18th 2007 9:33PM

the article says that you need to change the URL to point directly at the divx file. you're basically downloading the file to your ps3 hard drive and viewing it off of that...not viewing it through a web page.

Game_playa @ Dec 18th 2007 10:08PM

This could also have been done before but it would have been utterly useless as the PsTriple(LoL) just got this Divx functionality. Although I thought like the Xbox this ability would come years after being announced but they timed it so it would simultaneously release with its year older competitor.

Game_playa @ Dec 18th 2007 10:08PM

Yeah its awesome Quality sets it apart from the rest of the Online Video Aficionados

Hashbrown_Hunter @ Dec 18th 2007 10:28PM

great little workaround...thanks!

emaxximus @ Dec 19th 2007 12:11AM

ATTENTION- while background loading these videos, do not try to pause the download, because if you do you get an error message when you try to resume, and you will have to download it all over again. At least thats what happens to me.

Dehshizknight @ Dec 19th 2007 12:57AM

All we need is .flv support and we can directly download YouTube videos (with the right URL). Lol.

Imbro @ Dec 19th 2007 4:27AM

It shouldn't be hard to make a web page with an iframe to stage6 webbie, and a javascript identifying every thumbnail href and changing it to a direct link to the video. Either that or that the divx content is changed to a direct hyperlink.

Levi @ Dec 19th 2007 12:10PM

How about this: http://ps3.wtf0.com/

Imbro @ Dec 20th 2007 4:28AM

Thanks a lot for the link Levi. That's exactly what I was looking for. You saved me a lot of time attempting to figure out the supposed to be buggy DOM of the ps3 browser :)

I hope the author won't run into some legal problem for doing this though. Or worse, that they will cut direct downloads entirely.