PS3 compatible video creation thread (tsMuxeR etc.).

Well, first, you should demux the DTS track and convert it with MeGUI. In fact, I believe there's a guide for that on this very site. If you've got all the other bases covered for your other needs, then that's cool.

In reference to your earlier question about the flash drive, you wouldn't need more than one; the idea being that you'd copy whichever AVCHD folder to it according to the movie you want to watch. Again, there's a large amount of personal preference to how you wish to store your movies, and in which format. For example I've found that, given the playback limitations of the PS3, it works best for me to hard-code the subtitles into the video stream and mux into M2TS, and then copy the files to my PS3 hard drive over my network. The encoding is tedious, but I get the size/quality I want, without worrying about discs and folders. To each his own.

Really, after you get the DTS converted, multiAVCHD should be all you need if you want to use physical media. I'd refer you to http://multiavchd.deanbg.com/ , or the forum at http://multiforum.deanbg.com/ . I've found Dean to be a patient, helpful person, so if you still can't figure it out perhaps you should shoot him a message on his forum.

Best of luck, and my apologies if I haven't been helpful enough.

 

thnks a lot linkish i have made some research on multiavchd! right now i am trying to make a movie like i wish hope just multiavchd to not transcode the movie! i want to make my video collection of movies not just to put them on a usb stick and after that erase it! i know about media server i use it but right now my hard drives are full and i should make something about it! i will let u now if i figure tihs problem like i want!
thnks a lot dude

 

i works very good with multiavchd exactly like i want it! it splits the movie in 2 3 4 avchd dvd5 with 2 audio tracks and sutitles all costumazible it took 45 min!

 

Excellent, glad I could be of service.

 

Alright I have a question ... I normally don't have problems converting MKVs to AVCHDs to play them in my PS3, but I'm having some problem now ..

I recently converted an MKV to AVCHD recently, and the playback result is that on the PS3, I just get a black screen with the audio playing in background ... and if I play the same disc on a bluray player on my PC (e.g. PowerDVD, HP's built-in player), the video plays, but its very 'blocky' ...

The MKV I'm converting has a level of 4.1 by default, is 1920x1080 in resolution .. so it should convert properly, right ?

Here are the full details if needed:

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 6 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 2h 41mn
Bit rate : 11.7 Mbps
Nominal bit rate : 12.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.236
Stream size : 13.3 GiB (87%)
Writing library : x264 core 80 r1376M 3feaec2
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.0:0.0 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=2 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=100 / decimate=1 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=0 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=0 / wpredp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=12000 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.30 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:2.00
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 2h 41mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Resolution : 24 bits
Stream size : 1.71 GiB (11%)
Language : English

Text #1
ID : 3
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Title : English
Language : English

Text #2
ID : 4
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Title : English
Language : English

 

what software are you using?

 

Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@4.1 - it should say main or high not unknown
i think that this is your problem!
try to use multavchd a great tool, best that i found u can make menu for your movie and its costum !

 

Hi everyone

I'm just beginning to use the TsMuxer app.
My question is releated to audio issues :

If i want to convert an MKV to MTS/AVCHD does my audio HAVE to be an AC3 track ?
I'm just asking because a lot of my mkv files have DTS or AAC and i've read that tsmuxer supports these as well but that there are a lot of problems with these including audio loss etc...

Thanks

 

I've sucessfully turned my file (mkv, h264 aac2.0) to both ts and m2ts. However, while the video outout was great, the audio not working in ps3. Please help whether to adjust the ps3 itself or there were something I missed out during muxing? Thanks.

 

I'm having an interesting problem. I use MKV2VOB a lot for converting 1080p and 720p files all the time to avchd or vob to play on my ps3. However I also have some standard def mkv's that I'd like to play on my ps3 but need to convert to avchd first.

However on the standard def stuff when I convert to AVCHD or to file the audio is drastically out of sync with the video. However this is never the case with 1080p or 720p files, even when re-encoded to add subs. I've noticed that it does this with MultiAVCHD and MKV2VOB as well so It's not just a program glitch I'm guessing. Anyone care to shed any light on the situation??

 

Hey guys, i have a question about getting proper audio on my friends ps3 when playing a file that has DTS audio. Basically, i start out with a mkv with DTS 5.1, and i remux(split into 4GB parts) via mkv2vob(mkv2vob does the DTS trick to make it work with ps3). I save the resulting MPG file to an external hdd, and then plug into ps3 via usb...and the file plays fine w/DTS 5.1 audio. I have my ps3 hooked up to my audio receiver with an optical audio cable.

Here's my problem...i want to save the movie(MPG file) to a flash/thumb drive and then give it to my friend so he can watch the movie on his ps3. I did this, but my friend says that the audio is messed up(all he can hear is static and crackling). He just recently bought his ps3(firmware 3.21), but he has it hooked up directly to his sdtv via the supplied ps3 composite audio cable. I don't know if that has anything to do with it not working on his or not, but it works fine on mine. Does anyone know why it doesn't work on his ps3, when it works fine on mine?

Ryu or Odin...i really hope you guys are still around. You guys have always been my go-to-guys in this thread for any troubleshooting.

 

your file is still dts. Even though you used mkv2vob you must have not checked the always transcode dts box.

 

I guess your vob file still contains the .dts audio track, so your friend's PS3 isn't able to decode it into a stereo output through the composite cable (who use it on a ps3 these days?! Video Quality is s*it!)

In you case, you use a digital audio cable, so the ps3 IS able to send the compressed .dts file through it, and you audio receiver has a decoder to play it correctly.

You need to convert the dts track to something the ps3 is able to convert in a stereo mix, like a .ac3.

Usually, when I have a mkv with dts audio (like some 720p movies) I extract the .dts, convert it to .ac3, and mux it again to the .264, in a m2ts file (but vob is ok too), so i can stream it to the ps3 with tversity or if it's smaller than 4 gb burn it on a dvd.

 

Hi Ryu.

important question.
I'm using TsMuxer but there is an issue with 1080p videos.
... black screen with audio.
what I found out is the following - it is something with reference frames
normaly 720p are using 4 ref frames (where there is no problem muxing) and 1080p have 16 ref frames what is according to found forum entryes the problem ... is it possible to change the ref frame count in TsMuxer?
or to otherwise solve the problem? ...

thanx in advance

Tom

 

hey guys i have a couple of movies that are 720p quality but from what ive heard 720p means 1280x720 and not 1280x544 and i cant seem to find a clear explanation on the net
i have been trying to add subtitles to this using mp4box and it does not work
i want to play this mp4 on the ps3 but keep the same quality it is and i really want subtitles for this
would this app be able to do that? if not can someone link me to a guide?
thanks

 

Not sure if is the right place but my friend has given me a mpg he convert from an mkv using mkv2vob. Trouble is it has dots audio so even when I play it through vlc on my mac it plays the distorted fuzzy sound.

Anyway I can reverse what he has done?

 

not if he converted the original mkv to another file format. the new mkv2vob has an option for patching the DTS track so it will play on the PS3. If you dont patch it with mkv2vob then you must let it convert to ac3 which is really dolby digital sound and is almost the same as DTS in my opinion.

If you still have the original mkv file you can run that back through mkv2vob and this time check the always transcode DTS, or make sure the mkv2vob is updated and it will auto patch the DTS track. Please note if the DTS track is patched it may only play on the PS3. My seagate go media player will not play DTS tracks from any of the files I allowed mkv2vob to patch the dts track on.

 

Ok thanks for your help.

 

If you simply want to convert dts, or flac, or mp3 audio on an mkv use MKV2AC3.

 

Just started using the advantages of my PS3 by converting mkv's from my PC (using tsMuxeR) to a USB HDD on my PS3.

The majority of them (22) play fine on the PS3. However, there are 3 that have audio, but no video.

Here's the report from tsMuxeR Output for one of the "no video" conversions:

SmartLabs tsMuxeR. Version 1.10.6 http://www.smlabs.net
Decoding H264 stream (track 1): Profile: High@4.1 Resolution: 1280:544p Frame rate: 23.976
H.264 stream does not contain fps field. Muxing fps=23.976
H264 bitstream changed: insert nal unit delimiters
H264 bitstream changed: insert pict timing and buffering period SEI units
Decoding DTS stream (track 2): Bitrate: 1536Kbps Sample Rate: 48KHz Channels: 5.1
B-pyramid level 1 detected. Shift DTS to 2 frames
H264 bitstream changed: insert SPS/PPS units

Is there a way to convert this mkv to play properly on a PS3 USB HDD?

Thanks in advance....