StaxRip needs a Playstation 3 Profile (please!)

[Ga1j1n]

(Transplanted from page 77 of the Staxrip discussion thread where I feared it would get buried beneath other discussions)

Stax / forumites,

Is it possible to make the Staxrip created mp4's encoded with the default constant quality profile compliant with the PS3 by way of a check box setting or profile.

I have been using this superb Gui for approx 6 months to achive my video collection in preperation for the day when I would finally buy myself a PS3 (I'm not a fanboy by any means I just think it has great potential as a standalone media centre) that day recently arrived when I picked one up secondhand at a reasonable cost.

The problem is that despite playing 264 encoded mp4's out of the box I have discovered through some forum detection work that they only support level 4.1 encodes, this means that in order to get my collection to play on the beast I have to manually demux into elementary streams, change the level of the 264 and re-mux into an mp4 container as per the easy method described in post #182, this is a pain in the butt to say the least although it works.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.ph...ht=ps3&page=10

Anyway after this change the mp4's play perfectly so either the PS3 can play level 5.1 files by default or staxrip creates these files but doesn't specify the file type branding box or level_idc at the point of encoding the x.264 element or muxing the streams into the mp4 container

Without the identifying information in the metatag or similar of the file the PS3 just lists it as an unrecognised file, sure I can use another gui but at the moment none are as complete or user friendly as StaxRip (Sorry guys, no offence intended, it's a personal preference)

So it should be relatively easy to (I say with trepidation) to either set the type by default or allow this as an option within Staxrip (At this point I'd like point out that I am basing this entirely on deduction and in no way suggest that I am an expert in these things)

I would be more than happy to test any files or beta builds/ profiles that may arise from this and will answer any questions I can, here's hoping

:thanks:

[gigah72]

if all you need to have is the level set, you can do this in the CLI settings:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/8161/staxclileveleo9.th.png (http://img502.imageshack.us/my.php?image=staxclileveleo9.png)

[Ga1j1n]

Give that man a hand!

Thanks, testing as we speak, will report progress when encoding finished.

I altered the level in Codec settings as shown with the proviso of setting the level as:

-level 4.1

And the created a PS3 Experimental profile for test purposes, fingers crossed...

Nope 4.1 produces the old Unsupported data error, trying with the level set to 4

And again no, if I have the level set to 4, Staxrip demuxes the audio and then when you come to the compressablilty check asks you to save the project and crashes saying it cant find the comptest file, any more ideas?

[gigah72]

check if you have -- not only -

--level 4

maybe you test it with short file, video only

[Ga1j1n]

Excellent, that seems to work perfectly with both level 4 & 4.1, I may experiment with other levels.

It may be that the only reason Staxrip encoded files don't play is that I doesn't provide any level details by default?

Anyway, thanks again!