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 · 9 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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