Steaming MKV files to PS3

[romeop]

Very great news, i'm going craxy trying to install Ps3mediaserver in order to have remuxing, but i knew ffmpeg cannot do remuxing.....

[XFox Prower]

I have 2 mkv videos with the same codecs. One plays on the ps3 and the other doesn't. Here they are with codec info shown from VLC. The 1st one will not play. The 2nd one will.




Next, I copied both to the ps3 through the Synology media server and back to my pc. Here's the transcoded codec details:




The codecs for both match again and they both play on my pc. For the first video, ps3 says video codec is "MPEG-2 1.9Mbps", gets the length of the video, audio codec, etc, and fils to play it, showing "Unsupported Data." For the 2nd video, it says the video codec is "AVC 2.1 Mbps" and plays just fine.

Why does the ps3 detect the wrong codec for the first video and fail to play it? There seems to be no options in DSM 3.2. MKV transcoding isn't even mentioned in it. It just does it. Playstation 3 is shown for the profile of my ps3 in the device list. Could there be a fix with mimetypes for mkv?

[Taxman]

The Synology NAS dos not transcode MKV video it remuxes in real time basically a container swap, the PS3 supports the codecs (H264/AAC) but not the container (MKV).

It can be unreliable so files not working is normal. Use Mediainfo on the second file and see if it is a 10-bit encode, as some morons decided to use a pro video feature in their ainme releases ignoring the fact that 10-bit encodes are not supported by almost everything.

[XFox Prower]

Not sure what I'm looking for in Media Encoder, but the closest thing I see is 'Bit depth: 8 bits', which both videos have in common.

[Taxman]

Yeah 8-bits is normal, so it's not a 10bit file.

Try remuxing the file, just run it through mkvmerge then copy the new file back over to the NAS to see how it fairs after that.

[XFox Prower]

Thanks. Didn't work though. The ps3 still incorrectly simply says "Video Codec: MPEG-2 - kbps" (blank kbps, but it says this for the working videos too)

[petricak]

same problem m8s
and multilanguage files dont support more than first lang

[khosro]

How can the DS be configured so that it does not attempt to remux/transcode MKV files?

Many MKV files have multiple audio tracks but unfortunately I only seem to be getting 2 channel rather than the 5.1+ that is available.

Not convinced either by the DS (211J) ability to handle larger (higher resolution) MKV files. Hence my desire to disable this feature. Any ideas?