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PS3 Video Thread

Blimblim said:
I'm at work right now, so I can't try it.
I totally believe you btw, it's just that my testing (all 10 minutes of it before the PS3 crashed) using ffmpeg directly didn't work. But it was without a doubt my fault ;)
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No problem, I understand. I didnt think you didnt believe me or anything, it's just odd that it didnt work. Hopefully you have better luck when you get home. When is your new ps3 supposed to arrive? :)
 
Bad_Boy said:
No problem, I understand. I didnt think you didnt believe me or anything, it's just odd that it didnt work. Hopefully you have better luck when you get home. When is your new ps3 supposed to arrive? :)
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It was supposed to arrive today, but for some reason the transport company thought it would be fun to send it to the southern part of France. I'm slightly mad. Really slightly mad.
 
Blimblim said:
It was supposed to arrive today, but for some reason the transport company thought it would be fun to send it to the southern part of France. I'm slightly mad. Really slightly mad.
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:( sorry to hear, hope it comes soon

not having much fun with this trailer myself, it exported to avi fine but the reason why it went so fast was because the quality was horrible. I cant seem to export it with the orginal quality settings without it taking a year to finish. kinda annoying how video 9 wont take this file as is. encoding other stuff seems to be a breeze though.
 
_leech_ said:
Yea, but those weren't encoded with AVC. AVC is a much more efficient codec, you shouldn't need 10Mbit/s for 720p content (i'd say 4-6Mbit/s).
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Ehhh, they're in the main version of Windows Media 9 (fourcc WMV3), which is what VC-1 is based off. I wouldn't say that h.264 is three times as efficient as WMV9. With transcoding twice while still trying to maintain as much quality as possible I don't think keeping the original bitrate or close to it is unreasonable.



Evillore: A very recent version of ffmpeg should be able to read directly from a WMV file without the need for a dual transcoding
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I tried importing the latest version into ps3video9, but still no go with the wmv9 trailers.
 
Bad_Boy said:
:( sorry to hear, hope it comes soon

not having much fun with this trailer myself, it exported to avi fine but the reason why it went so fast was because the quality was horrible. I cant seem to export it with the orginal quality settings without it taking a year to finish. kinda annoying how video 9 wont take this file as is. encoding other stuff seems to be a breeze though.
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Try using the RAD Tools for the avi transcoding, it always gets the job done for me.
EviLore: Enable the console output with a working video, then copy the command line and try using it with this build of ffmpeg http://arrozcru.no-ip.org/ffmpeg_builds/ but with a wmv file.
 
EviLore said:
Ehhh, they're in the main version of Windows Media 9 (fourcc WMV3), which is what VC-1 is based off. I wouldn't say that h.264 is three times as efficient as WMV9. With transcoding twice while still trying to maintain as much quality as possible I don't think keeping the original bitrate or close to it is unreasonable.
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Meh, i'm just regurgitating what i've read at Doom9 :)
 
Blim: used the ffmpeg version you linked to, and copied the command from the video9 console, but I get an error.

Code: 
Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream #0.0

Input stream #0.0 is the audio stream
 
lol this trailer really hates me. I put it in RAD Tools, everything seems to be going fine, but when it's done it turns the 120mb quicktime trailer into a 4GB avi file with no sound (in 7 minutes no less). :lol

I think I give up. lol
 
EviLore said:
Blim: used the ffmpeg version you linked to, and copied the command from the video9 console, but I get an error.

Code: 
Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream #0.0

Input stream #0.0 is the audio stream
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Hmmm, it's the IGN MGS4 TGS trailer?
 
EviLore said:
The E3 and GC IGN trailers, HD versions.
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Ok, I'm trying to download it from IGN, but it will take about 4 hours. Love IGN.
Edit: Tried with a partial file, indeed it can't decode the WMA audio. Strange. I'll try with mencoder. Can you paste me ffmpeg the command line?
 
Code: 
[i]location_of_ffmpeg.exe[/i] -y -i "[i]location_of_source_video[/i]" -f mp4 -title "[i]title_of_source_video[/i]" -timestamp "2006-11-30 04:23:56" -vcodec h264 -level 40 -coder 1 -g 250 -b 10000 -bufsize 10000 -b 10000k -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128 "[i]output_location_for_video[/i]"
 
Blimblim said:
Yeah I know, just wanted to see how it did on a PS3 :)
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Oh, right, sorry, kinda 5am here and all ;b

On the PS3 it shows up as corrupted data, doesn't play.
 
Ok did some more testing, ffmpeg doesn't support the WMA9 Pro codec (id 0x162) so that's why it can't do the conversion directly.
I'll try to find an easy workaround.
 
EviLore said:
Success.
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Ok, it's a hack and it might not work with WMV using a variable frame rate, but you can simply create a .avs file like that
DirectShowSource("metalgearsolid4_trailer_090406_wmvhd.wmv")

And then
location_of_ffmpeg.exe -y -i "avsfile.avs" -f mp4 -title "title_of_source_video" -timestamp "2006-11-30 04:23:56" -vcodec h264 -level 40 -coder 1 -g 250 -b 10000 -bufsize 10000 -b 10000k -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128 "output.avi"
Since I myself use avisynth for all my video postprocessing before encoding, this is great news :)
 
I think I'm having a problem with filesizes or file length.
I've been encoding stuff fine, but till now it has only been very short 10 minutes or less stuff.

I encoded a video file @ 10mbps, came out around 2gigs. Try to download it with file server, and doesnt want to work. I'm thinking it may be file server, so i burn it on a disc (DVD RW). Sees the file, but says its unsupported file type. Won't play at all.

Thing is, I havent changed the settings or anything.
So...i re-encode it, but I split the file in half. Comes out to around 1GB.
Same thing happens, Unsupported file type, wont play.

So I cut it again a little shorter (around a 5minute clip, 200mb).
Same settings, plays fine (looks great too btw). (downloaded off file server, and played fine off the memory stick as well)

I'm thinking it's either the length of the file, or the size of the file. I'm leaning more towards the size of the file because I played the 1up Show fine and it was a bit longer than the file I used when I split it in half. I really hope sony hasnt put some kind of file size limit on the video playback. :(

Gonna have to continue testing different files, but hopefully one of you guys have tried out some stuff. Any input would be very helpful.

edit: split the file into 4 peices, around 500mb a peice, all working fine. but I'd rather have one large file. Damn I can't wait to get the western digital external hdd. :P

Blimblim said:
One last test:
http://media.playsyde.com/misc/test3.mp4
If it works, let me know about the image quality on a HDTV too.
Edit: .mp4 works better :(
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sorry for the late reply. this played fine on my ps3. looks great on sdtv, but little pixlated on hdtv.
 
So is there a consistent, reliable, easy way to encode video yet? It's dead simple on the PSP with 3GPP Converter and I'm really aching for something quick and simple for the PS3 but nothing I've tried so far (mostly from this thread) has been satisfactory
 
kenta said:
So is there a consistent, reliable, easy way to encode video yet? It's dead simple on the PSP with 3GPP Converter and I'm really aching for something quick and simple for the PS3 but nothing I've tried so far (mostly from this thread) has been satisfactory
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I use PSP Video 9 and batch process in H.264. I usually just encode to a USB HDD and then I merely connect the HDD to the PS3.
 
tetsuoxb said:
Any mac tools made available yet?
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I use ffmpegx with the following settings:

Video:

Codec: H264 [.MP4] (x264)
-use b-frames
-2 pass encoding
-AVC Level 3.0 (this took a while to figure out)

Audio:
Codec: AAC
-sampling at 48000 Hz

Have had beautiful results. Some xvid to avc conversions have very unsynched video (non monotone timestamp errors) but that is something to do with the ffmpeg engine and not the PS3. HTH!
 
Tinkering around in PS3V9 today to see if I can get it to encode anime xvid files properly. Seems anything I feed the PS3 that's of that sort (and more than a minute long) results in the unsupported format error. Posted some fairly significant testing bits on their forum, but essentially it's sounding more and more like an issue with their ffmpeg compile. That would also explain why 2pass isn't in yet.

I don't suppose there are any other fairly robust win32 options that seem to have people happy? 3GP seems to work but it's going to take time to get it to do the job properly.
 
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