So I been working away slowly trying various things, and I have found that after using a handful of tools for converting my videos so that they work 100% on my PS3 I use the Auto Gordian Knot (AutoGK). It seems this tool is rather old at least the main application is, being that the latest stable release was on December 2005 and there is a beta that was worked on apparently November 2007.
The location of this nifty little tool is here: http://www.autogk.me.uk/
It's by far the easiest to use and the most straight forward, not to mention the only one I can get to work 100% on everything that's not corrupted that I throw at it. I have tried the tool from DivX and a few other various free conversion tools out there and none of them compare so far.
Only problem I have so far is that I have to convert the DVD first using DVDShrink (so as to create one VOB file) then after doing that based on the tutorial I have in this blog, I use this tool AutoGK to convert the VOBs to Xvid AVIs.
I set the AutoGK to use 100% quality, use source audio (AC3) and use Xvid codec with AVI as the container. The quality is not quite as good as the VOB's themselves, but it's nearly half the size even at 100% quality and it fast forwards, scene jumps and even works with the new "Scene Search" feature that was added in the 2.50 system update on the PS3.
If anyone has any other tools that just work out of the box, and aren't that expensive please add those to the post and I will post them later with my findings after playing with them for a while. I would really like to get a good HD conversion software to create really nice high def content perhaps in the Matroska (MKV/MKA) container.
Note: I do see that on the Matroska web page there is listed as the "best" Matroska editing software listed as AVI-Mux GUI but I notice all it does is combine files and does not do any converting which sucks.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
More info on the Streaming Stuff!
More woes on the streaming front!!
No matter what I do VOBs are definitely a problem with the PS3. The Xbox 360 won’t play them unless they are transcoded as they are streamed, but I haven’t been able to get TVersity to do this properly either.
I have also tested various codecs, re-encoding my videos and doing just about anything and everything I can to find the best setting or codec and what's the worst. It takes a rather long time to do this and I have still not come to a conclusion that I can be comfortable with yet, I only have a few hours here and there every night to devote so I think this hunt will take me a little longer yet.
I can say I have re-encoded my videos to Divx and XVid AVI's and the PS3 loves those, eats them for breakfast. It will fast forward, play, pause and play later (days later) at the same spot I had them paused. All of this while never once skipping a beat, pausing forever (locked video) or jumping a bit and audio getting out of sync. There is a loss of quality here though (I could probably squeeze more out if I tweaked the encoding options on the software I have), but I can perceive the loss of quality and it bugs the crap out of me. Not only that but re-encoding these videos takes many hours.
A few people I know have the same problem. It seems uncompressed VOBs are really the issue. If I compress the VOBs, even if I just say "Automatic" but don't set a limit, there are absolutely no problems with those VOBs.
I have heard talk about the Apple TV device being pretty decent after you mod it. I will get details and post here on both the Apple TV and the mod package to apply. I understand the modded device apparently will play formats directly over the network, no need for a DLNA streaming server or to transcode.
I am thinking about the same, but for nearly $200 for the device, I could put another $100 and get a PS3 if only it would handle everything.
I also really want to keep my VOBs uncompressed; they look the BEST this way. I have tested compressed and uncompressed VOBs and I can tell the difference, at least in my setup. I have a KDL-52W3000 52” Sony Bravia which I love. Some of the people I know cannot tell the difference or it does not matter to them, or perhaps their setup hides it better, but for me I really can tell the difference. Not only this but in the future I want to be able to stream high def content and if my setup cannot even handle normal DVD uncompressed VOBs I think I am in trouble when I go to HD content. Note: Everything I have tried so far is does not include any HD or Blue Ray content.
Back to the grind of trying to find a good solution for me.. any comments are appreciated.
No matter what I do VOBs are definitely a problem with the PS3. The Xbox 360 won’t play them unless they are transcoded as they are streamed, but I haven’t been able to get TVersity to do this properly either.
I have also tested various codecs, re-encoding my videos and doing just about anything and everything I can to find the best setting or codec and what's the worst. It takes a rather long time to do this and I have still not come to a conclusion that I can be comfortable with yet, I only have a few hours here and there every night to devote so I think this hunt will take me a little longer yet.
I can say I have re-encoded my videos to Divx and XVid AVI's and the PS3 loves those, eats them for breakfast. It will fast forward, play, pause and play later (days later) at the same spot I had them paused. All of this while never once skipping a beat, pausing forever (locked video) or jumping a bit and audio getting out of sync. There is a loss of quality here though (I could probably squeeze more out if I tweaked the encoding options on the software I have), but I can perceive the loss of quality and it bugs the crap out of me. Not only that but re-encoding these videos takes many hours.
A few people I know have the same problem. It seems uncompressed VOBs are really the issue. If I compress the VOBs, even if I just say "Automatic" but don't set a limit, there are absolutely no problems with those VOBs.
I have heard talk about the Apple TV device being pretty decent after you mod it. I will get details and post here on both the Apple TV and the mod package to apply. I understand the modded device apparently will play formats directly over the network, no need for a DLNA streaming server or to transcode.
I am thinking about the same, but for nearly $200 for the device, I could put another $100 and get a PS3 if only it would handle everything.
I also really want to keep my VOBs uncompressed; they look the BEST this way. I have tested compressed and uncompressed VOBs and I can tell the difference, at least in my setup. I have a KDL-52W3000 52” Sony Bravia which I love. Some of the people I know cannot tell the difference or it does not matter to them, or perhaps their setup hides it better, but for me I really can tell the difference. Not only this but in the future I want to be able to stream high def content and if my setup cannot even handle normal DVD uncompressed VOBs I think I am in trouble when I go to HD content. Note: Everything I have tried so far is does not include any HD or Blue Ray content.
Back to the grind of trying to find a good solution for me.. any comments are appreciated.
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