consultant
18th December 2009, 22:36
I'm trying to devise a solution for serving my music video DVD collection to my PS3. I've been experimenting with PS3MediaServer and some various rippers/encoders.
1) BANDWIDTH: I've determined I'm going to need to implement powerline ethernet until the PS3 can support the faster N wireless. I'm getting a bit of stuttering on my 54g network even with 720x480 resolution. This was encoded with Handbrake using 60% RF 20 quality. I'm surprised but I think the quality my PS3 has for the 54g connection is average to low as it is pretty far from the wireless router.
2) QUALITY VS FILESIZE: I want to have the lowest possible filesize while maintaining quality that is barely noticeably lower than the original DVD or Blu-Ray video. Can anyone recommend encoding settings that will achieve this and how much space I can expect to save over the original source? I'm guessing just a high-quality encode using x264 in MKV?
3) STORAGE: I'm not interested in a movie library but I imagine the disk space requirements will be huge compared to disk space requirements for my 2000 MP3 collections. Let's assume 500 DVD resolution 5-min videos and 100 1080P (Blu-Ray) 5-min videos. Using a high quality encode, can anyone throw out an estimate what the storage requirement will be?
4) REMOTE STORAGE? Since I can stream 1080P from Comcast or Netflix, is their a remote storage service out there that I could just upload all my videos to and stream them across the net. Then I wouldn't have to worry about buying storage, backup, etc.
5) LIBRARY INFO: The other think I'm frustrated with is unlike CD ripping, it appears there is no way to read the artist name, album name, and chapter/song title from the DVD and use it to create the filename and tag the file with the information. Can you even tag an MKV like an MP3? I think you can tag an MP4? So it appears I will have to manually enter all my filenames (so they make sense) at least and if possible tag the files. If it is possible to tag MKV or MV4 files, will the PS3 read them via the PS3MediaServer or will it always just only show the filenames?
Any recommendations/insights is greatly appreciated.
1) BANDWIDTH: I've determined I'm going to need to implement powerline ethernet until the PS3 can support the faster N wireless. I'm getting a bit of stuttering on my 54g network even with 720x480 resolution. This was encoded with Handbrake using 60% RF 20 quality. I'm surprised but I think the quality my PS3 has for the 54g connection is average to low as it is pretty far from the wireless router.
2) QUALITY VS FILESIZE: I want to have the lowest possible filesize while maintaining quality that is barely noticeably lower than the original DVD or Blu-Ray video. Can anyone recommend encoding settings that will achieve this and how much space I can expect to save over the original source? I'm guessing just a high-quality encode using x264 in MKV?
3) STORAGE: I'm not interested in a movie library but I imagine the disk space requirements will be huge compared to disk space requirements for my 2000 MP3 collections. Let's assume 500 DVD resolution 5-min videos and 100 1080P (Blu-Ray) 5-min videos. Using a high quality encode, can anyone throw out an estimate what the storage requirement will be?
4) REMOTE STORAGE? Since I can stream 1080P from Comcast or Netflix, is their a remote storage service out there that I could just upload all my videos to and stream them across the net. Then I wouldn't have to worry about buying storage, backup, etc.
5) LIBRARY INFO: The other think I'm frustrated with is unlike CD ripping, it appears there is no way to read the artist name, album name, and chapter/song title from the DVD and use it to create the filename and tag the file with the information. Can you even tag an MKV like an MP3? I think you can tag an MP4? So it appears I will have to manually enter all my filenames (so they make sense) at least and if possible tag the files. If it is possible to tag MKV or MV4 files, will the PS3 read them via the PS3MediaServer or will it always just only show the filenames?
Any recommendations/insights is greatly appreciated.