ZenLord
9th February 2010, 19:34
Hi,
It's been 4 years since my last confession, err login to this forum and a lot has changed since then...
All of my old rips (xvid+ac3) are streamed nicely to my ps3 using mediatomb. To insert subtitles, I use the piggybacking method mencoder offers me.
Now I have a new requirement: I want to start ripping to .mkv or .mp4 since it can save me some storage space, but my ps3 won't play .mkv ans .mp4 supposedly doesn't support more than 2 channels of sound. On top of that, My new HD recorder can handle far better quality than DVD-quality, so using my transcoding script, I would be serving DVD-quality stuff to my ps3 and Full HD-tv...
In short: I have searched a lot on this subject, but I cannot get to see the complete picture: ffmpeg, mencoder or vlc to transcode? x264 or h264? mp4 or mkv or m2ts?
I need to transcode (single pass, real time) to any of these formats:
# Memory Stick Video Format
# - MPEG-4 SP (AAC LC)
# - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (AAC LC)
# - MPEG-2 TS (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, AAC LC)
# MP4 file format
# - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (AAC LC)
I would like of course the highest possible quality and 5.1 sound - if my searches were not completely worthless, this would mean I have to transcode to m2ts, but I have no clue how to do that and I don't think I'm the first to try this (although google, doom9, videohelp, avsforums etc seem to not help me...)
Any hints? Links? Scripts?
THX!
It's been 4 years since my last confession, err login to this forum and a lot has changed since then...
All of my old rips (xvid+ac3) are streamed nicely to my ps3 using mediatomb. To insert subtitles, I use the piggybacking method mencoder offers me.
Now I have a new requirement: I want to start ripping to .mkv or .mp4 since it can save me some storage space, but my ps3 won't play .mkv ans .mp4 supposedly doesn't support more than 2 channels of sound. On top of that, My new HD recorder can handle far better quality than DVD-quality, so using my transcoding script, I would be serving DVD-quality stuff to my ps3 and Full HD-tv...
In short: I have searched a lot on this subject, but I cannot get to see the complete picture: ffmpeg, mencoder or vlc to transcode? x264 or h264? mp4 or mkv or m2ts?
I need to transcode (single pass, real time) to any of these formats:
# Memory Stick Video Format
# - MPEG-4 SP (AAC LC)
# - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (AAC LC)
# - MPEG-2 TS (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, AAC LC)
# MP4 file format
# - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (AAC LC)
I would like of course the highest possible quality and 5.1 sound - if my searches were not completely worthless, this would mean I have to transcode to m2ts, but I have no clue how to do that and I don't think I'm the first to try this (although google, doom9, videohelp, avsforums etc seem to not help me...)
Any hints? Links? Scripts?
THX!