PS3, Mediatomb, Multi Zone Music streaming

PlayStation 3 firmware 3.00 added a new feature I was very excited about, multi-av output.
Today I finally got round to re-wiring the home cinema system to make use of this new feature. I now have the PS3 streaming music from Mediatomb with my A/V receiver sending audio to Zone 1 via digital inter connects and [...]

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 11:02 am by Martin · Permalink · One Comment
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MKV to MPEG-4 conversion script

The Play Station 3 can’t play MKV file. Therefore I’ve written a script that creates a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 compatible MPEG-4 from Matroska providing the video is H.264 and audio is AC3 or DTS. Xbox 360 compatibility requires that audio is forcibly downmixed to stereo with ‘–stereo’. AAC 5.1 audio will have the [...]

Posted on August 27, 2009 at 8:48 pm by Martin · Permalink · 8 Comments
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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 [...]

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 5:09 pm by Martin · Permalink · 4 Comments
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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 [...]

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 5:00 pm by Martin · Permalink · 16 Comments
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Converting Matroska to M2TS for PS3 and Mediatomb

It has been a while since I last posted, mainly due to not having Internet access at home for a month
Anyway, I’m online again and I have been tinkering with various projects the most recent of which is Matroska conversion (again).  For sometime I have been converting Martoska files to MPEG-4 with AAC [...]

Posted on April 15, 2009 at 4:19 pm by Martin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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