I recently bought a PS3 to put movies on. I downloaded mkv2vob and have it on my desktop. The only movies that I have at the moment are the ones in iso format that I saved to blank dvd's. I tried loading one and nothing happens. Will the program take these dvd's? I know that after I run the program and create the file, all I need to do is copy it to the PS3, or so I've been told. So I'm totally lost. Cold someone help me or direct me to a document where it explains how to make mkv2von run? TIA.
well mkv2vob is picky about incoming formats. so im sure it dosent support it. (iso)
My idea would be:
- rip them off the disk's to your computer
- download a program called mkvmerge and install it
- then use this software ^^^^ to convert your file to mkv - then use mkv2vob to convert the mkv to mpeg and should play fine off your ps3
If you're ripping your DVDs to your hard drive (in ISO format), it's pretty easy to get the videos onto your PS3.
This is assuming that you only want the main movie from your ISO as well as one audio track. (If you want more, it gets much more complicated.)
First things first - I'm making this up as I go, so it won't be the smoothest directions nor easiest to understand.
Anyway.
First thing you need to do is get some sort of mounting software so that you can mount your ISO image onto a virtual DVD drive. (There are programs out there like Daemon, Alcohol 120%, etc., but I'd suggest just getting MagicDisc as it's free and it serves our purposes.) Download the program, install it, and mount your ISO image onto a virtual drive.
Then you'll need to "re-rip" the movie into its constituent folders instead of one single file. You can do this by downloading and running DVD Shrink. (I believe it is payware, but it does come with a free trial period.) Once you've got DVD Shrink going, navigate to your virtual drive and open up the ISO image.
Make sure that only the main movie and the main audio track are selected. And as far as compression goes, you have two choices:
1.) If you're going to transfer the movie over through a physical medium (a flash drive, an external hard drive, etc.), then you have to make sure that the total filesize is no more than 4 GB (4096 MB). This is due to filesize limitations in the external media that the PS3 accepts.
2.) If you're going to transfer the movie over through a wired or wireless media server, then you can leave the filesize at 100% if you so choose.
("What's so important about the filesize?" you ask. If you go from a 4GB movie file to a 1GB movie file, you've lost 3GB of movie and audio data, reducing the quality of your file. The quality drop may or may not be visible to you, so it's all up to you.)
Whatever you decide to do, you should now go into DVD Shrink's options and find some option labeled "Split movie into 1GB chunks" or some such thing. Make sure that this option is turned OFF. Not ON. Make sure it is OFF. If it's on, you'll get multiple video files instead of one simple file.
Then you go ahead and rip it to your hard drive, and once everything's done, navigate to the folder that you ripped it to. You should see two folders:
...and there should be one file in your "VIDEO_TS" folder and nothing in your "AUDIO_TS" folder.
Now, if your file is 4GB or less, feel free to just throw it onto a flash drive and transfer it over. If you opted to keep as much quality as possible, though, you'll have a file that's greater than 4GB and thus needs a bit of "repackaging."
Download a program called "tsMuxer." This one doesn't require any installation - just download it, unzip it, and run the program.
When you open it, you'll see near the top that there's an input window. Add your movie file (just the file, not the folder) to this, and you should see the second window show stuff. These are the two "streams" of the file - the video stream and the audio stream.
Beneath that, you'll see container options: TS, M2TS, AVCHD, and Demux. Or some such thing. You want to click on "M2TS." What this does is tell tsMuxer to repackage your files into an ".m2ts" container file - it doesn't degrade the quality of your video or audio at all.
And once that's done, you can choose an output folder and then let 'er rip.
Once tsMuxer is finished, you'll end up with an .m2ts file. This is the one that you'll transfer to your PS3 via media server. (You can also test it in VLC Media Player or Media Player Classic if you choose to.)
...but that's a very truncated setup. As such, you might have some problems along the way, so feel free to come back and ask us for some more help.
