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===== The lazy PS3 owner's transcoding howto ===== ===== The lazy PS3 owner's transcoding howto =====
-Since the PS3 is a <del>really, really crappy</del> picky mediaplayer, you get to spend a lot of time tweaking your mediatomb config to produce an acceptable output stream. The easiest (yet most CPU intensive) solution is to use transcoding on **everything**: Linux doesn't care what it gets as an imput format, it can usually handle it just fine - and if mediatomb produces an mpeg2 stream for every item, the PS3 is happy too. +Since the PS3 is a <del>really, really crappy</del> picky mediaplayer, you get to spend a lot of time tweaking your mediatomb config to produce an acceptable output stream. The easiest (yet most CPU intensive) solution is to use transcoding on **everything**: Linux doesn't care what it gets as an input format, it can usually handle it just fine - and if mediatomb produces an mpeg2 stream for every item, the PS3 is happy too.
You can check the howto here: [[http://www.vanalboom.org/node/14|MediaTomb and PS3: The Lazy Man's solution]]. You can check the howto here: [[http://www.vanalboom.org/node/14|MediaTomb and PS3: The Lazy Man's solution]].
 +Transcoding everything is extremely CPU intensive though, up to a point where it is simply not possible (1080p HD content, etc). It would thus be smarter to not transcode everything, but remux where possible and only transcode those files that cannot be remuxed.
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 +The follow-up article to achieve this: [[http://www.vanalboom.org/node/16|MediaTomb and PS3: The Lazy Man's solution (Part II)]].
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 +The script provided in this article is able to remux h.264 MKV files on the fly to the PS3, as well as MP4 and DVD. AVI files are transcoded to MPEG-2, with the ability to automatically render subtitles in the stream.
===== FFmpeg transcoding failing mysteriously ===== ===== FFmpeg transcoding failing mysteriously =====
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... guess what? You get a nice mpeg2 stream, with your subtitles embedded. Whoopee! ... guess what? You get a nice mpeg2 stream, with your subtitles embedded. Whoopee!
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===== Range from .flac file ===== ===== Range from .flac file =====
 
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