Originally posted by ReferMan:

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Ok, just finished my first blu ray disk. I split a 8.3g mkv file with mkvmerge. I extracted both halves with mkvextract. I ran both h264 video files through h264.info and changed the level to 4.1. The audio was AC3, so I didn't have to use aec3togui. I ran both video and audio from each half of my movie through tsmuxer and created a m2ts file. I then ran both my m2ts files through tsremux and burned a UDF DVD-ROM disk using Nero 8.0 after changing the UDF level to 2.5. I burned onto a double sided DVD-R. It plays in my PS3, I have 5.1 surround sound, but something else that I have is a big green line across the bottom (like where the bottom letterbox black line would be. The top is black like normal, but the bottom is bright neon green. It's pretty distracting. Anyone else had problems with this, if not, any ideas on what's causing it? Also, I noticed that if I skip chapters or fast forward, the disk will stop reading, but as long as I don't do that, it plays fine.

Thanks!!

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Originally posted by odin24:

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FYI guys, there is no need to split files when creating m2ts for PS3 playback. I have several files on my PS3 HDD about 8gb in size which play great, the whole way though too. DD 5.1 surround also plays from the HDD in m2ts format.

I guess you'd need to split if you're not networked but it might be a cost savings to get networked rather than using a bunch of DVD5s or re-writables.

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Originally posted by canuckerz:

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Originally posted by odin24:

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FYI guys, there is no need to split files when creating m2ts for PS3 playback. I have several files on my PS3 HDD about 8gb in size which play great, the whole way though too. DD 5.1 surround also plays from the HDD in m2ts format.

I guess you'd need to split if you're not networked but it might be a cost savings to get networked rather than using a bunch of DVD5s or re-writables.

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That's impossible, the PS3's file system wont allow a 8gb file to be put onto it.

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Originally posted by odin24:

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Originally posted by canuckerz:

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Originally posted by odin24:

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FYI guys, there is no need to split files when creating m2ts for PS3 playback. I have several files on my PS3 HDD about 8gb in size which play great, the whole way though too. DD 5.1 surround also plays from the HDD in m2ts format.

I guess you'd need to split if you're not networked but it might be a cost savings to get networked rather than using a bunch of DVD5s or re-writables.

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That's impossible, the PS3's file system wont allow a 8gb file to be put onto it.

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I'm not joshin', please try it. I was surprised too!

If you have streaming capabilities the better programs to use would be TVersity, but you have to change the m2ts file extension to m2t as the PS3 will not recognize m2ts from TVersity (weird eh?).

I use Cyberlink Media Deluxe, which I think is great. There is no indexing, or daily scans or updates. All you need to do is have a folder monitored and keep your movie files there. No renaming as well, the PS3 see's the m2ts file as a mpeg2 file, once on the PS3 is shows as AVC. Cyberlink is not freeware, so you'd need to aquire it some other way.

Once again please try this for yourself, you'll be surprised too.

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Originally posted by canuckerz:

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That's impossible, the PS3's file system wont allow a 8gb file to be put onto it.

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REferman: EAC3GUI is really picky for me too. I don't know what error you are getting exactly but I found that the path to the file you are trying to convert is important. I usually put the file directly into my C: drive (C:\filename.dts) then try to use the program. All of my files have worked perfectly after that. You also have to make sure that you have the sonic decoder Ryu77 talked about. Good luck!

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Originally posted by ReferMan:

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Just found something and I had a question.

Here's an NFO file from a movie I just got, and this is what it says. What caught my eye as being different from other movies I'm getting is the codec, where it says x264, Level 4.1. That means that I don't have to run the video through H264.info to get it to play on the PS3 right? Just take care of the DTS through EAC3toGUI, and make a M2TS file and burn!! Correct?

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You would think so. However, I have encoded with the Nero recode AVC engine and that produces a 3.1 level AVC file. It wouldn't play on the PS3 after I muxed it into a m2ts with tsMuxeR, so I extracted the video file, ran it through h264 info and it played fine. I can't explain why this works but it all I know is it does.

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Originally posted by ReferMan:

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By the way, if it wasn't for you Ryu77 I'd still be trying to find out how to do this.

I thank you.

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Originally posted by V4oLDbOY:

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Ok, I think I actually got it.

1. I extracted the ac3 audio with mkvextractgui.
2. lowered bitrate with Besweetgui.
3. used mkvmerge
- added original 4.37gb mkv file, unchecked the audio track,
- added lower bitrate ac3 audio file
- muxed to get a 4.1gb mkv file
4. Used mkv2vob to create a 4.3gb vob.

I'm currently burning it to a dvd so i can play it on my ps3, but I'm pretty sure this is going to work, I hope so...

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Originally posted by evolmindz:

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if a mkv file does not have ac3, lets say dts does it mean it wont properly make an mpg file using mkvtovob or gotsent? i keep running into runtine error 53 trying to convert a mkv file that does not show ac3 in it, like it will say ass,dts,av1 and such but no ac3.

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Originally posted by V4oLDbOY:

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I think 256, but I dont really care about the audio, I only have crappy stereo speakers.

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Originally posted by V4oLDbOY:

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I did run into a problem. Th vob will technically play on the ps3 but I had an issue with the beginning. It wont paly, the screen just stays black, but when I pause the movie, and button mash a bit, it allows me to fast forward, the video seems to play fine as long as you get it moving, I can just start it from 9 secs just fine. The odd thing is that the icon for the video plays from the beginning fine, I copied it from the dvd (over 4 gb). So thats confusing. Why wold the video not start automatically?

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Originally posted by V4oLDbOY:

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Also how can I change the file extension if I make a .ts file. I have another mkv I converted using the mkvextract method because mkv2vob didn't work. I'm using xp DO I just add .mpg on he end because the file name I see is just xxxxxxx, there's no .ts on the end of it.

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Originally posted by V4oLDbOY:

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I was just thinking, what if you just cut off the first second of the video, might this solve the problem? But, I cannot find a suitable vob cutter/editer freeware, any suggestions?

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Originally posted by kpuz:

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Hi, noob here,
This tsremux app appears to detect evo files. I converted one of the evo files i have and got an m2ts file. I renamed the extension to .m2t and tried streaming to ps3. The ps3 didn't support the file. Is it possible to play evo files using this app.
O, and the video stream was vc-1 and audio stream was DD+
any help is appreciated.

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