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[Orlics]

EDIT: not really, see my post below.

If you have mkv or similar files on your PC, you can actually convert it to vob and the PS3 will play it with its 5.1 audio intact. No more converting to AAC which the PS3 just downmixes! :lol

http://www.redkawa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1906

I have done some tests of getting the ac3 (Dolby digital) and h.264 (AVC) to play in ps3 without re-encode ac3 to aac. I found a solution.
Step by step.

1.mvkextact audio and video.
2.change the level of h.264 to 4.1 if needed with h264info
3. mux audio and video together with the latest ffmpeg.
ffmpeg -r 23.976 -f h264 -i input.h264 -f ac3 -i input.ac3 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f vob output.vob

Put this in to the folder for streaming (I use Tversity), it is shown as mpeg-2 in xmb.
Play it and it works great. Press info and you see that it is dolby digital and avc

Fast forward do not seems to work but the files can now be bigger than 4GB.

Maybe there can be a profile in redkawa for this

I'm sure there are people here who know about it, but I've asked here before if it is at all possible and never got any help, so I'm just assuming this is new to some people at least.

 

[YYZ]

Good news, but I wish I had a 5.1 setup to begin with

 

[Wollan]

I'm pretty sure videos & trailers and such which you download support everything be that 5.1 or 7.1..etc?

 

[Orlics]

I'm pretty sure videos & trailers and such which you download support everything be that 5.1 or 7.1..etc?

No, on my receiver at least it shows that the PS3 makes them into stereo. Which sucks. Maybe someone with a receiver that supports AAC can comment though.

Also - silly me. You can't actually play the 5.1 sound even with that method, though the file will play without any conversion (i.e. loss of quality). However, with the m2ts method someone posted in that thread, it may be possible. Tonight, I shall experiment.

 

[nofi]

I'm pretty sure videos & trailers and such which you download support everything be that 5.1 or 7.1..etc?

It's coming in 2.0, whenever that may be...

 

[Mmmkay]

Can someone who uses HDMI and LPCM output for movies and games confirm that their experiences with 5.1 audio in the XMB is the same as everyone using S/PDIF? The audio options you get are: Left, Right, Left+Right. Since the PS3 is not going to pass a 5.1AAC stream to a receiver, it could possibly send 5.1 LPCM. In the future for most users to get 5.1, they would need to realtime transcode whatever audio is contained in the file to DD AC3 and I think that's why we don't currently have it.

 

[Orlics]

Can someone who uses HDMI and LPCM output for movies and games confirm that their experiences with 5.1 audio in the XMB is the same as everyone using S/PDIF? The audio options you get are: Left, Right, Left+Right. Since the PS3 is not going to pass a 5.1AAC stream to a receiver, it could possibly send 5.1 LPCM. In the future for most users to get 5.1, they would need to realtime transcode whatever audio is contained in the file to DD AC3 and I think that's why we don't currently have it.

That's called Dolby Digital Live, and the PS3 currently doesn't have it.

One solution would be to put an AC3 file into a MP4 container, however the MP4 standard doesn't allow this. This vob solution allows you to have a AC3 file that's in 5.1 and playable by the XMB... but it's still downsampled like a 5.1 AAC file in my DD receiver (using SPDIF)! wtf Sony?!