[MEncoder-users] newbie question to convert video and make them enabled on ps3

[Mathias]

Hello everybody,

I'm desespareted to find a way to convert my movies and make them enable
 on the playstation 3 player.

My problem is the following one: I play my movies to my ps3 from a uPnP
server.
But I need to add some subtitles and my uPnP server doesn't had them on
the fly; so I would like to convert them back in a ps3 supported format
and include subtitles.

So I have understand that playstation 3 doesn't accept all movies
encoding, but only the following one:
http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/video/filetypes.html

I've look for many way and search google for many hours to found a valid
solution for that (avidemux, mencoder, ffmpeg, etc, etc) but mencoder
for me is fine because it can be called from command line.
But anyway, I can't play my movies on my ps3: each time I have
"incompatibles datas" or "datas corrupted" messages when I try to
loading a movie reencoded with all theses methods.


I've tried this solution too
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mencoder-users/2009-February/009899.html
by adding a profile in my ~/.mplayer/mencoder.conf file:

subfont-autoscale=3
subpos=96
utf8=no
subfont-osd-scale=6
subfont-text-scale=3
#xvidencopts=bitrate=1200:pass=1
#lavcopts=vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1200
o=output.avi

[for-ps3]
profile-desc="conversion videos pour ps3"
ovc=x264=1
oac=lavc=1
global_header=1
#ffourcc=mpeg4
x264encopts=subq=6:pass=1:bitrate=1200:bframes=3:partitions=p8x8,b8x8,i4x4:weight_b:threads=auto:nopsnr:nossim:frameref=3:mixed_refs:bime:brdo:level_idc=41:


I made my movies with the following command line:

mencoder -profile for-ps3 -sub "Lost S5E7.srt" -o "Lost S5E7.avi" "Lost
S5E7VO.avi"

My file is well generated and can be read on my ubuntu 8.10, but not
available from my uPnP server:

MEncoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu17 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (Family: 15, Model:
107, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
Warning unknown option global_header at line 21
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x15f0f342
AVI file format detected.
[aviheader] Video stream found, -vid 0
[aviheader] Audio stream found, -aid 1
VIDEO:  [XVID]  624x352  24bpp  23.976 fps  955.9 kbps (116.7 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3  fourcc:0x44495658  size:624x352  fps:23.98  ftime:=0.0417
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
SUB: Detected subtitle file format: subviewer
SUB: Read 456 subtitles.
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
VDec: vo config request - 624 x 352 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar I420 as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is 1.77:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
x264 [info]: using SAR=1/1
x264 [info]: using cpu capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE SSE2 SSE3 3DNow!
Pos:   0.0s      1f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [0:0]
1 duplicate frame(s)!
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16384:9242.
Setting audio delay to 0.048s.
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16384:9242.
Setting audio delay to 0.048s.
Writing header...6f ( 0%)  0.00fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.019 [0:0]
ODML: vprp aspect is 16384:9242.
Setting audio delay to 0.048s.
Pos:2702.5s  64800f (100%) 32.77fps Trem:   0min 451mb  A-V:0.038 [1182:224]
Flushing video frames.
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: vprp aspect is 16384:9242.
Setting audio delay to 0.048s.

Video stream: 1182.417 kbit/s  (147802 B/s)  size: 399464757 bytes
2702.700 secs  64800 frames

Audio stream:  224.000 kbit/s  (28000 B/s)  size: 75675936 bytes
2702.712 secs
x264 [info]: slice I:638   Avg QP:14.52  size: 24780
x264 [info]: slice P:23624 Avg QP:15.72  size: 11055
x264 [info]: slice B:40537 Avg QP:17.07  size:  3022
x264 [info]: mb I  I16..4: 35.4%  0.0% 64.6%
x264 [info]: mb P  I16..4: 10.5%  0.0% 12.6%  P16..4: 38.9% 22.7%  9.6%
 0.0%  0.0%    skip: 5.7%
x264 [info]: mb B  I16..4:  0.7%  0.0%  0.8%  B16..8: 36.5%  3.2%  5.5%
 direct: 8.6%  skip:44.6%
x264 [info]: final ratefactor: 15.51
x264 [info]: direct mvs  spatial:99.2%  temporal:0.8%
x264 [info]: ref P  85.2%  9.8%  5.0%
x264 [info]: ref B  93.7%  6.3%
x264 [info]: kb/s:1182.4

Could you confirm me that I'm right with the following cases:

- ps3 allow H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile （AAC LC）. When I try to
encode it with ovc=x264 et oac=lavc I'm right? (I'm newbie with video
processing)

- is it the better way, the more compatible way with theses codecs?

- does movie this can have a influence in my problems?

- if I run mencoder -profile for-ps3 -sub "Lost S5E7.srt" -o "Lost
S5E7.mp4" "Lost S5E7VO.avi" will make the same result? (container is not
 store in extension?)

- I have read many feedback of people which have the same problem than
mine, but their solutions doesn't help me. I suppose that source movie
cannot be responsible because it'll be reencoded from uncompressed movie?
Sometimes, it's works for them. not me. Does subtitle can be responsible
of that?

- Does anyone of you have a complete profile to help me to convert my
file? I've tried global_header, output codecs, bitrate, level_idc,
parameters but none help me. What is your feedback?

Best regards,

Mat

PS: please accept my apologies for my english