PlayStation 3 compaitble MPEG-4 container repacker
Some of my mobile phones have been able to record video clips in MPEG-4 format. Sadly some of these clips don’t play on the PlayStation 3 and those that do stutter terribly. I use ‘iplayer-dl‘ to download content from BBC iPlayer. Sadly the files are in a Quicktime container and are not playable on the PS3. In order to address both these issues I created a script which extracts the audio and video from an existing MPEG-4 or ISO Media Apple QuickTime container and repacks them in a new MPEG-4 container with optional splitting of the resulting MPEG-4 to maintain FAT32 compatibility. The new MPEG-4 files play back just fine on my PS3 
This script works on Ubuntu Linux, should work on any other Linux/Unix flavour and possibly Mac OS X providing you have the required tools installed.
- See the Code section of my site for the download and more details.
Mp4-Repacker.sh was released on April 23rd 2009 to help celebrate St. George’s Day.
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: fix, iPlayer, MPEG-4, PlayStation, PS3, Script
on June 1, 2009 at 5:11 am
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Awesome post, you have answered many questions I have been search for the answer to!
on July 3, 2009 at 9:38 am
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on September 4, 2009 at 1:38 am
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Cool site, love the info.
on January 6, 2010 at 5:59 am
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I will try to practice this script. I just happen to use Ubuntu Linux and not much understanding about this. I also experienced the same problem with you. My MPEG files can not be played on PS3. Thanks for this info.