Archive for the ‘Audio & Video’ Category
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 [...]
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: fix, iPlayer, MPEG-4, PlayStation, PS3, Script
MKV to M2TS conversion script
The Play Station 3 can’t play MKV file. Therefore I’ve written a script that creates a PlayStation 3 compatible M2TS from a MKV, assuming video is H.264 and audio is AC3 or DTS with as little re-encoding as possible. Any subtitles in the MKV are preserved in the M2TS although the PS3 can’t display subtitles [...]
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: conversion, M2TS, MKV, PS3, Script
DVD to MPEG2-PS Ripper for Linux
Every so often I find myself in looking through the ex-rental DVD “bargain bin”. Quite often I find something I consider a bargain. However, the experience of watching an ex-rental DVD is typically ruined by the various trailers and marketing guff at the start which you can’t skip. My wife hates that stuff, and I [...]
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: DVD, ISO, Linux, M2VRequantiser, MPEG2-PS, ripper, Script
M2VRequantiser for 32-bit and 64-bit Linux
I recently discovered that ‘tcrequant’ (part of the transcode suite of tools) has been deprecated. Worst still I found that when I ran ‘tcrequant’ on my 64-bit Linux workstation is was corrupting the video. See the links below for details.
transcode 1.1.0 Final Release
[transcode-users] tcrequant status
Therefore I decided to get the M2VRequantiser code from Metakine working [...]
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: 32-bit, 64-bit, M2VRequantiser, tcrequant
IMDB Film Summary as a MPEG2 video
If you’ve read my blog before you’ll know I run Mediatomb DLNA server with my PS3 as the client, You’ll also know I am working towards importing my entire DVD collection into my Mediatomb server. However, my wife wants to know something about each film in the library without having to dig out the DVD [...]
In: Audio & Video · Tagged with: IMDB, Mediatomb, MPEG, php, Script
