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

belcampo belcampo at zonnet.nl
Sat Feb 28 14:32:35 CET 2009 

Mathias wrote:
> James Hastings-Trew a écrit :
>> Mathias wrote:
>>   
>>> 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
>>>   
>>>     
>> You are not the only one frustrated by the PS3's picky behavior towards 
>> encoded movies. I have found better luck simply using mpeg4 video and 
>> mp3 audio in an .avi container - i.e. a "standard" divx style .avi file. 
>> These seem to be the most compatible. If you try this, be sure to use 
>> the -noodml and -ffourcc DIVX options.
>>
>> The potential problems I see with your particular encode is that you 
>> used an AVI container for x264 encoded video, which is, in my opinion, 
>> outside the exacting specs that the PS3 has.
>>
>> Try the following things: give the movie a shorter filename with no spaces.
>> Try copying the movie to the PS3 hard drive into a folder with a short 
>> name, and play it from there - sometimes this is enough to avoid the 
>> "corrupted data" issue.
>> Try encoding the video and audio and muxing them into an .mp4 container 
>> with mp4box.
>> Try to use a GUI style converter - I've had pretty good results from 
>> MediaCoder (it runs under WINE on Linux). It does not have a specific 
>> ps3 output option, but if you look through their forums there are lots 
>> of "recipes" for this.
>>
>>
>>   
> Hello,
> 
> thanks you for your feedback.
> 
> I've tried the x264 video codec because I think it's the better (but
> it's a newbie video processing point of view). Am I right?
> I understand that container and videos codecs are two parts of the
> problem. x264 videos files should be stored in which kind of file? DO
> you think for the others options I'm ok? I prefer use mencoder for the
> possible automatic way to convert from command line
> 
> mp4box is a windows solution, I'm running mencoder under linux ubuntu 8.10.
MP4Box is there for linux and also OSX. Google for the gpac package, 
that has MP4Box as part of it.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Mat
> 
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