[mdlug] mpeg files from MythTV play w/o audio in PS3

[Brian]

On Monday 15 September 2008 09:43:46 pm R. Kannan wrote:
> 1) PS3 does not recognize my flash drive. That is whole different issue
> which I have not resolved. I am burning the files on a DVD-RW and trying to
> play the files on PS3.
>
> 2) I had to install mplayer/mencoder on my machine and try it. PS3 did not
> like the AVI files from mencoder (using the options you had suggested)
>
> mencoder <input_file> -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -o
> <outfile.avi>
>
> though PS3 claims to support AVI files. The file works fine on mplayer. I
> need to look at other options.
>
> Thanks
>

PS3 supports divx/xvid avi files (with up to date firmware) or h264 mp4 files.  
h264enc (http://h264enc.sourceforge.net/) has worked quite well for me. it 
has a ps3 specific output profile that tweaks the encoder options for 
compatibility.  It's a shell script that uses mencoder to do the work and one 
of the steps in operation asks if you want to do dump the commands it's going 
to run to a file so you could pull the mencoder string you want from this.

-- 
Brian
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