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

[Brian]

I've had alot of luck with h264enc.  It also has the ability to output to a
bash script so you can dissect and pull the pieces you want into your own
custom stuff.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Ingles, Raymond <
Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:

> R. Kannan and I have been messing around with the MythTV files for a while,
> and I found some information which ultimately helped:
>
>
> http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=ps3media&thread.id=76624
>  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=617376
>
>  Basically, using the command
>
>    mythtranscode -i $IN_FILE -o $OUT_FILE -p autodetect -m -e dvd
>
>  ...produced a file that the PS3 could play properly. But it's awfully
> large
> (MPEG2 isn't all that efficient) so we're still looking for a way to
> transcode
> them to mpeg4 or h264.
>
>  I found a couple scripts yesterday: http://divxenc.sourceforge.net/ and
> http://h264enc.sourceforge.net/ - the first one claims to have a profile
> for
> the ps3 specifically, but my test file didn't work. I'm going to do some
> more
> testing and perhaps contact the author - there *should* be a way to do
> this,
> and I've had success with other movie files.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                   (313) 227-2317
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