Lower mpeg2 Max Bitrate for streaming to PS3?

Been browsing around a bit in the forums here but havn't found anything that will work in my situtation...

I used MKV2VOB to convert my entire collection of MKV, using the default settings. They now have the .mpg extension, and most play great on my PS3. I'm streaming them from a DNS-323 NAS running mediatomb, over a gigabit network.

The problem I am having is with files that have high bitrate peaks above ~15Mbps, usually 1080p videos. They'll stutter and have trouble streaming intermittently.

I want to re-encode the files to have a lower maximum bitrate, and was wondering what program or method can be used to achieve this. I'm willing to change the container type again if needed, but really any PS3 compatible format would be fine.

I've tried a handful of programs including TSMuxer, RipBot, ReStream, but none will open the files that MKV2VOB have made. GSpot only gives the following container info, and nothing else;

File type: MPEG-2 Transport Stream
Mime Type: video/mp2t

IMTOO HD Converter looks like it could do the trick, but I'm sure there is a free alternative out there. I'm encoding one of the files right now with SUPER, but it seems to have no support for VBR, only allowing a max of 9600 CBR.

Best apps for this job?

 

have you tried avidemux, that opens alot of avi and mpeg files for me. It will also let you convert it to avi.

Streaming large mpegs over a lan will stutter if the hard drive they are located on isn't setup correctly. If your NAS has linux or a propriety format, that might be the bottleneck. I stream from my mediapc to 3 other computers, but my video storage drives are setup with ntfs 64kb clusters. For streaming the larger the clusters the more data is transfer.

 

No luck with avidemux, but thanks anyway.