Playing vintage TV/DVD-rips (DivX, XviD and such) on a Sony Blu-ray home cinema system

[Obiwanshinobi]

So in my lady's place there is a quite beefy "home movie theatre" with a large HDTV, Sony 5.1 soundsystem and Sony Blu-ray player (used mostly for the sake of DVD watching). Does NOT seem to play SACDs as such, outputting merely stereo sound whilst playing them.
I'm not there right now, don't know which particular model it is. Do you think I can safely put a pendrive in via its USB port expecting it to play DVD-rips of yesteryear off this pendrive? Mostly ripped and compressed from about 2003 to like 2010, I think, using your average codecs used around that time.
Likewise, can PlayStation 3 play video files off pendrive without softmodding it first?

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So in my lady's place there is a quite beefy "home movie theatre" with a large HDTV, Sony 5.1 soundsystem and Sony Blu-ray player (used mostly for the sake of DVD watching). Does NOT seem to play SACDs as such, outputting merely stereo sound whilst playing them.
I'm not there right now, don't know which particular model it is. Do you think I can safely put a pendrive in via its USB port expecting it to play DVD-rips of yesteryear off this pendrive? Mostly ripped and compressed from about 2003 to like 2010, I think, using your average codecs used around that time.
Likewise, can PlayStation 3 play video files off pendrive without softmodding it first?

I'd prepare a USB drive with several types of media, different bit rates, etc.
Perhaps for the PS3 it will have to be in a VIDEO root folder.
I think the PS3 accepts MP4, and divx avi.

[Obiwanshinobi]

I'd prepare a USB drive with several types of media, different bit rates, etc.
Perhaps for the PS3 it will have to be in a VIDEO root folder.
I think the PS3 accepts MP4, and divx avi.

Will do! Thanks for the input.

[orange808]

Would an inexpensive little Kodi box do this (as a partner for the Blu-ray player) with somewhat passable quality? Should be able to add a USB disk player, if necessary. Sony never wanted us watching anything but original retail disks, so the lack of support from their player makes sense.

(If you go the Kodi route, don't even bother connecting it to the internet at all or sandbox it at the router--same thing as any other bullshit home appliance we might connect to our networks. That will safeguard against the dodgy nature of the Kodi ecosystem and reduce worries about keeping the machine patched.)