Tutorial: How to stream bluray to ps3

I know nothing about those.

 

The MyBook's are already Fat32 formatted so I've heard people in the forums recommending for PS3 (as an external drive - for holding media).

 

KidKappa, I have read your previous post with Odin24
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/701752
and I am having the white noise problem 8-40 minutes into the movie that you had before.

I have installed all the software and used your instructions to the letter to no avail. Any advice? I am using
Total Media Theatre 2.1.6.128
eac3to_more_gui 1.09b
pcm2tsmu v1.3
Latest Anydvd Hd

Thanks for the help everyone

 

Are you trying to get HD or Lossy audio? Also I have a receiver capable of decoding truehd or dtsma, i'm not sure if this factors in or not. Once I started converting to lpcm everything cleared up for me. I also think in the stdout.log there should be a little mention of using the arcsoft for decoding, or the libav/. Odin, have any ideas?

 

Most definitely HD. I will check the logs, however it uses Arcsoft for DTS and libav for TrueHD, at least thats what the screen says if I do it one step at a time.

 

After following all the steps for lossless PCM audio and tested with 2 different movies. I run MediaInfo on the final m2ts file and it shows only 1 channel of audio. What's the solution?

 

It's an unreliable report. I just verified with a 24 bit 5.1 pcm file on my PC, it reported 2 channel... basically something that it isn't. Your file is probably how it should be, 5.1.

If you really need to know check using eac3to. You'll need to enter in via command prompt though.

folder\eac3to.exe audiofolder\audio.pcm

Running a command simialr to this will tell you the correct properties of your PCM file. Just make sure the command line is specific to your directories.

 

The PCM file by itself is 5.1 but after tsmuxer the final combined file is reported to be mono.. Or "1" channel.

 

The m2ts file will play as 5.1.

 

Terrific guide!

I'm guessing it's almost pointless to ask whether I can stream it over my wireless network? I have a Linksys 802.11/g wireless router (54Mb/s)... can it handle streaming BR to my PS3?

 

It should work fine.

 

I have a DLink Dir-655 wireless and it would play 720p movies fine but 1080p movies were noticeably choppy, but theres no harm in trying and seeing if it works for you.

 

Wireless streaming skips BIG time for me.

I've used this guide to back up like 20 movies and it worked great! I have a problem with Nick&Nora's infinite play list. For whatever reason when I use eac3to to do the PCM file conversion it stops converting for no reason and the final file size is less than the original True-HD AC3 file. So now i'm having to down convert the file to a regular AC3 file. Any ideas?

Output log:
TrueHD/AC3, 5.1 channels, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB
(embedded: AC3, 5.1 channels, 640kbps, 48khz, dialnorm: -27dB)
Extracting TrueHD stream...
Removing TrueHD dialog normalization...
Decoding with libav/ffmpeg...
Swapping endian...
Remapping channels...
Creating file "stdout.lpcm"...
[libav] Substream 1 parity check failed <WARNING>
[libav] Substream 1 checksum failed <WARNING>
[libav] Substream 0 data indicated length goes off end of packet. <WARNING>
[libav] Substream 1 data indicated length goes off end of packet. <WARNING>
[libav] Too many audio samples in frame <WARNING>
The libav decoder reported an error while decoding. <ERROR>
Aborted at file position 291766272. <ERROR>

 

Possibly a broken TrueHD file, does eac3to give any explanation? Do you have the disc to re-rip.

 

So I just encountered my first VC-1 encoded Blue-Ray disk. Since this guide won't work for VC-1... how do I convert the VC-1 to h264? Last night I tried to use ripbot to encode to mp4 format and after 7 hours it "completed" yet the file was nowhere to be found in the output directory or anywhere else on the computer. So how what do I use to go from VC-1 to h264? Thanks in advance!

 

There are two solutions;

1. Re-encode to h264 for streaming compatibility (takes a long time)

2. Remux to Blu-ray (split to 4GB chunks), rename to AVCHD 8.3 spec (using AVCHDMe), place on a FAT32 external HDD and play on the PS3 (takes about 15-20min).

Do you have an external HDD with approx 30GB of free space?

 

My external is NTFS... it's what I use to store all my m2ts files on to stream to my PS3. I don't mind if the re-encoding takes a long time. I am a patient man What program would I use to re-encode for streaming purposes?

 

This guide deals with re-encoding and other topics.

If you wish to try my 2nd method mentioned above, you do not need to format your entire external to FAT32, you can partition part of the drive to FAT32, and leave the rest as NTFS. I have a 320G external, 50GB of it is FAT32. I use it for my BD rips that have VC-1 or subtitles that are required... and for this a Blu-ray/AVCHD structure is required.

 

Thanks! I read the guide and this is what happened. So I have ripped my Blue-Ray and the first thing I have to do is create a single video file with tsremuxer due to the fact that the movie is in multiple streams. So I mux the video into a .ts or an m2ts file. Next I try and use MeGUI to do the video conversion and it tells me to create an avisynth script which I proceed to do and find out that the movie has to be in a "container" first. So does this mean I need to mux the file into a blue-ray structure first or some other kind of file type?

 

If you mux to m2ts it is already in a container.