What sort of pc is exelent for converting mkv to avchd (ps3)

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Hallo Doom9s,

A question if i make:

What is the best sort of pc/laptop to decode a mkv movie file to a avchd (ps3) format?

Ive got a asus laptop takes about 4/5 hours to convert a 7000 till 1300mb movie

Processor: Intel Core 2 Penryn processor T9300 2.5GHz 6MB 800FSB
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 9500m GS 512MB DX10
Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
Memory: 3GB DDR2 667MHz (1GB + 2GB); supports up to 4GB
Display: 15.4" WXGA+ (1440 x 900) glossy
Hard drive: 250GB 5400rpm

Can someone give me a good reason to buy a new pc or laptop and a link to the laptop or pc.

Would be awesome if there is a price limited till 2000 dollars.

I use multiavchd a lot for home movies to watch.
So its for personal usage :) thank you

p.s is it possible to convert a mkv movie in less more then 30 hours till max 1 hour?

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Wouldn't it be much cheaper to dump the PS3 and buy a playback device which is capable of playing the MKVs? You can probably still buy a Bluray player without Cinavia copy protection for at least a little while longer, and MKV capable Bluray players aren't all that expensive. I'd recommend a Sony player as they seem to play just about anything. Samsung players are also quite good, they just don't support anamorphic MKVs as the Sony players do (square pixel MKVs are fine) and I think the Sony players have better picture quality. Or there's plenty of other dedicated media players to choose from. Even Bluray players will play video from a USB hard drive and NTFS file system support has become pretty common. Most TVs these days have built in media players which will also play MKVs via USB, so maybe even a TV upgrade might be an alternative choice.

For that matter it'd even be cheaper and less time consuming to buy a basic PC/laptop and use it as a playback device. I've got my PC hooked up to the TV and pretty much always use it for playing video. It'd be even more versatile than a standalone player and even a budget PC/laptop would do.

These days it's starting to no longer make sense to be transcoding video for a particular device. A couple of weeks ago I bought a new smartphone (Motorola Razr). It's hardware decoder seems to be as good as the hardware decoder in my PC's video card. I haven't tried 1080p video on it yet, but it's played every 720p MKV I've tried. I installed a decent video player which has a software decoder and if the phone's hardware decoder won't play a video for some reason the software decoder will decode it instead. It even has a HDMI output.

The Intel i7 2600k desktop CPU seems to be a favorite for video transcoding, but if you wait a bit longer (next month I think) the new lineup of Intel CPUs will be out.

Doesn't the PS3 play MP4s (I don't own one so I'm not sure)? If so you may be able to convert the MKVs to MP4 without re-encoding and play them that way. Software such as YAMB (http://yamb.unite-video.com/) will convert MKVs to MP4 as long as the video/audio type is supported by the MP4 container. I think FFCoder (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/FFCoder) does a pretty good job of re-muxing video from one container to another without transcoding too. I haven't used it much myself though.