PS3 compatible video creation thread (tsMuxeR etc.).

...yeah, that's that. I'll probably just recode 'em to .avi, then. (Just wanted to skip that thing if possible.) You know of anything besides MeGUI that allows as much codec tweaking? All of the others I've seen/used (which, admittedly, are pretty few) have been one-click and junk.

I'm thinking... 5-6GB .vob to 1-2GB Xvid .avi should do fine, no?

EDIT:

Yeah, I'm using HDMI. That's about the only thing I'll agree to use nowadays. Makes everything very simple - best output of both video and audio in one cable.

 

For my project using MeGUI, I specified a 2500kb/s bitrate to h264 (for AVCHD)... which showed zero difference from the 7000kb/s mpeg2 source. The final file size, everything muxed was 2.5GB... AVI might be 2.2GB, the movie was 2hrs long. You could probably get away with the same or slightly less for XviD.

I used Ryu77's Ultra profile (I know, overkill), total time from rip to PS3 was about two hours on my quad core. Any other profile should be half the time.

EDIT: I suggest using h264 in AVI... better compression efficiency.

 

Yeah, I would go with h264, too, except it's a bitch getting my old P4 to encode h264, and it would take especially long with a 1.5-2-hour movie. (Even a standard-def half-hour anime recode took... well, I wanna say an hour or so. Maybe more.) Xvid and those other older codecs just seem to take less time.

Once I rake up enough dough to build a quad-core, I'll definitely go with h264, but for now, I'll have to stick to Xvid. Maybe DivX.

But anyway, I'll reach for the 2,000-2,500 kbps range for Xvid. By the way, is Ryu's profile part of the MeGUI update package or do I have to manually look for it? If it's the former, then what's the name of his profile? I've never found a profile that said "Ryu77 PS3 Profile" or anything.

 

I don't think they're part of the whole package/update. Here's a link to his profiles.

 

ok I finally found a guide that worked for me http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/convert_mkv_to_mp4_for_ps3_page_2.cfm

 

OK, I am having another difficulty how ..

Anyone here tried to burn an AVCHD Disc through the newer ImgBurn 2.4.4.0 ??

The resulting AVCHD gets detected as a 'Data Disc' (with the BDMV and CERTIFICATE folders in it) in the PS3 !!!

Anyone know how to solve this problem ?

I had a look through ImgBurn's settings, and found the following newer options:



I enabled that last option (BD Video - Allow Unicode Volume Label) myself, which was disabled by default. I have tried burning an AVCHD Disc with this option both enabled and disabled .. And still the AVCHD Disc is detected as a 'Data Disc' in the PS3 .. !!

Can anyone help me out here ?

btw, I used the newer tsMuxeR 1.9.9 to generate the BD Folders .. could the problem be here ?

 

If you are using tsMuxeR 1.9.9, you need to mux to AVCHD (not Blu-ray). This will give you a BDMV folder without the CERTIFICATE folder. All you need to do is burn just the BDMV folder, but you still need to remux again to AVCHD.

 

ok anybody know what went wrong when i selected splitting 4GB the first file came out ok but the 2nd one shows as corrupt on the PS3.

 

Hey ryu77 great work with all the advice you given, I have a quesiton for you. Im useing an external hard drive to play mkvs on my ps3. I had an issue with my audio at first with some movies but managed to fix that, bascially i converted dts into ac3 and remuxed it in mt2s formatt and all is good. Recently I have 2 other files i got the audio is fine but I get a black screen when i play them. Below is the info I have for these two files

Size:.....................8.74 GB (2xDVD5)
Length:.................02:08:43
Video Bitrate:..........9085 kbit/s
Resolution:............1920 x 816
Framerate:............23.976
Codec:.................x264 2-pass
Audio:..................English, AC3 5.1, 640 kbit/s
Source:................Inside Man HD DVD 1080p VC-1 TrueHD CtrlHD
Subtitles:..............Eng, Swe, Den, Nor, Fre, Spa, Dut, Hun, Ita


Û x 2 6 4 I N F O Û

x264 [info]: slice I:1870 Avg QP:17.73
x264 [info]: slice P:95665 Avg QP:19.24
x264 [info]: slice B:87655 Avg QP:20.64

And the other one is:

TITLE............: The Departed
SOURCE........: HD DVD
SUBTITLES.....: Multiple
SIZE.............: DVD5 + DVD9 = 12.3GB
-VIDEO:
CODEC............: x264
BITRATE ..........: 10115 kbps
FRAMERATE......: 23.976
RESOLUTION.....: 1920x784
ASPECT RATIO...: 2.45:1
-AUDIO:
CODEC............: DTS
CHANNELS........: 5.1 (6 Channels)
BITRATE ..........: 1536kbps
LANGUAGE........: English
x264 [info]: slice I:2919 Avg QP:15.53
x264 [info]: slice P:96929 Avg QP:16.52
x264 [info]: slice B:117870 Avg QP:17.96

So yeah if you can tell my how to fix the black screen issue if possible I do have tsmuxer and megui latest versions.
Thanks in advance

 

whats the AVC profile of the streams buddy? chuck it into 'mediainfo' program to let us know?

you could use ps3 media server to stream/transcode the files from your PC/external drive to the PS3 and it would probably automatically fix it for you without too much hassle....

 

ok so this is the original file (mkv), not the one I used in tsmuxer
this is the info I got hope this helps for the first movie:
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 8 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@5.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 8mn
Bit rate : 8 885 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 9 083 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.237
Stream size : 7.98 GiB (91%)
Writing library : x264 core 56 svn-680
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=3 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=9083 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30
Language : English

And the second one is:
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 7 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@5.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 31mn
Bit rate : 9 881 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 10.1 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 784 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.449
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.274
Stream size : 10.4 GiB (85%)
Writing library : x264 core 57 svn-709C
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=4 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / fpel_cmp=sad / subme=7 / me-prepass=0 / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=6 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / bframes=4 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40(pre) / rc=2pass / bitrate=10115 / ratetol=1.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=1:0.5:15.0
Language : English

I hope I got what you were looking for if not I let me know thanks.

 

The problem with the first one is there are too many reference frames (ref=5). In the second ref=4, which is the high limit for 1080p movies. Your only options are to re-encode the movie, or if there is a media streamer than can transcode on the fly to a different codec.

 

Thanks for the quick reply, so I have to recode but into what format?
I have tsmuxer and meGUI can I do it with that?
Also I'm using an external hard drive which I plug into the ps3 if possible I would like to continue to do it this way, because when I stream it's very choppy.
Thanks in advance for the help

 

You can use MeGUI and recode to the same codec the MKV is... which is h264.

-Tool --> New AVS Scrpit (AviSynth Script)
-Load your MKV, close the preview window once it pops up
-Save, close the preview window once it pops up.
-Set the File Foramt to RAWAVC
-Set the Encoder settings to a proper Blu-ray profile. I suggest SA_Blu-ray_Fast.
-Press the Enqueue button
-Go to the Queue tab and press start.

If you have everything configured properly it should start encoding, if you don't you may need to install AviSynth, Haali Media Splitter, and or CCCP.

Once it is finished recoding you can use tsMuxeR to remux your new h264 file with the original AC3 audio to m2ts.

 

hey odin, k so I followed your instructions but ran into a problem.

1st question is when i hit enqeue in megui 2 jobs show up for the same file do i need to complete both jobs.

2nd i completed the first job which took 12hours geez, but when i try to add it to tsmuxer i get an error that says unsupported format;
cant detect stream type. File name: etc...

Did i do something wrong or do i need to try and convert the job 2 as well

 

sorry if this has been mentioned, but why don't you just use mkv2vob?

Set video transcoding to automatic, transcoding codec to x264 (slow), choose your preferred audio language and subtitle language, set filesplitting to 4GB (since you're using an external HDD) and you're good to go. it will take hours to transcode, as you've already found out.

But it's an automated process.

You can also select "always transcode DTS" if you don't have a receiver capable of DTS.

 

Hey thanks for the info regarding the mkvvob, Ive never used that, but ill wait to see what odin says, since im curious as to why my first attempt didnt work.

And if that mkvvob is a better choice afterwards il try it thanks.
Oh using that program mvkvob will i lose video/audio quality?

dts sound doesnt work on the ps3 as far as i know, so i always convert it to ac3.

 

any time you transcode (or recode), you lose some quality. but if there's too many reference frames for the profile, there's no way around it.

if you want the absolute best quality and you're willing to transcode for even longer, then choose "x264 (high bitrate)".. but your file will be huge and you probably won't notice much of a difference.

mkv2vob automates all of this.. drag your file in and you're done. it will either transcode (if it needs it) or it will remux (no quality loss and the file is done in a couple minutes).

just make sure mkv2vob is set to transcoding: automatic and it will do all the work for you.

as for DTS in a file on the PS3, yes it does work with mkv2vob. With the help from a forum member, 3r1c was able to trick the PS3 into playing DTS in a file. works like a champ.

 

k thanks im in the process now of using mkv4vob just to give it a try anyways, i set the output to m2ts hope thats correct. im using the slow rather then high bit, last time encoding it took 12hours lol thats pretty long, will see how long this takes.

hopefully it works!!

 

you don't need mt2s.. just leave file output set to automatic, and it will generate an .mpg extension (MPEG TS) container which is the most compatible with all the media streamers out there.