TS to MPEG for PS3

[mparter]

I've got a few ts files which contain DTS audio. The PS3 doesn't support DTS audio when streaming so I need to find a way to create mpeg files from the ts files, keping just the video and converting the dts to ac3.

I've tried the following;

1. Demux with ProjectX
2. Convert the DTS to AC3 using eac3to
3. Remux the video and AC3 with tsRemuXer
4. Convert the TS file to MPEG with HDTVtoMPEG
5. If HDTVtoMPEG doesn't like the TS file, I then use MPEG2VCR to "convert" the TS file to MPEG.

This usually works but the resulting files are then shown as having no duration, i.e. the duration is 00:00:00.

This whole process is a bit long-winded so I was just wondering if there was a quicker more efficient way to do this? Also, any idea why the duration is incorrect?

Thanks.

[B4tm4n]

I've got a few ts files which contain DTS audio. The PS3 doesn't support DTS audio when streaming so I need to find a way to create mpeg files from the ts files, keping just the video and converting the dts to ac3.

I've tried the following;

1. Demux with ProjectX
2. Convert the DTS to AC3 using eac3to
3. Remux the video and AC3 with tsRemuXer
4. Convert the TS file to MPEG with HDTVtoMPEG
5. If HDTVtoMPEG doesn't like the TS file, I then use MPEG2VCR to "convert" the TS file to MPEG.

This usually works but the resulting files are then shown as having no duration, i.e. the duration is 00:00:00.

This whole process is a bit long-winded so I was just wondering if there was a quicker more efficient way to do this? Also, any idea why the duration is incorrect?

Thanks.

At point 3 remux the audio and video with tsMuxer, to a ts or m2ts file, and you should be good to go. Forget about doing 4 and 5. Have you tried the file you get at point 4 with your method AFAIK it should work also.
And if you need it to be a mpeg for some reason or other try just renaming it mpg.

[mparter]

The PS3 as far as I'm aware, doesn't support AC3 audio via streaming in a transport stream (ts). That's why I was converting it to a program stream (mpg).

I'll try remuxing it to an m2ts and see how I get on.

[B4tm4n]

The PS3 as far as I'm aware, doesn't support AC3 audio via streaming in a transport stream (ts). That's why I was converting it to a program stream (mpg).

I'll try remuxing it to an m2ts and see how I get on.

Thats not true, the PS3 has been streaming 5.1 audio in ts format for quite awhile, and its always streamed stereo ac3 from the begining. [delete reference to rule 6 material]
Hope you get it working.

[mparter]

Thats not true, the PS3 has been streaming 5.1 audio in ts format for quite awhile, and its always streamed stereo ac3 from the begining. [delete reference to rule 6 material]
Hope you get it working.

According to http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/video/filetypes.html, it will only play 2 channel audio from a streamed TS file, it has to be a program stream for 5.1 (AC3) sound to work.

If yu've had it working otherwise then I'm suprised.