Re: Can't transcode .mkv to PS3

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Mi, 2013-10-16 at 22:01 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 10/07/2013 12:48 AM, Jens Georg wrote:
> > On Fr, 2013-10-04 at 23:12 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> > > Seems like every time I try to transcode/play an .mkv file on my PS3, it
> > > fails to play.
> > >
> > > Rygel outputs this error:
> > >
> > > (rygel:12119): Rygel-WARNING **: rygel-http-request.vala:105: Could not
> > > create a transcoder configuration. Your GStreamer installation might be
> > > missing a plug-in
> > >
> > > It's not obvious which plugin it's trying to load...
> > You're right, I've filed
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709546 to add this
> > information.
> >
> > > How do I figure out how to fix it?
> > Good question. If you can play the video with gst-launch-1.0 playbin
> > uri=file:///path/to/the.mlv, then I think installing gst-libav for the
> > mpeg encoder, gst-plugins-bad for the mpeg muxer and gst-plugins-ugly
> > for the mp2 audio codec should be a good start.
>
> Thanks, it's finally working after installing those gst packages,
> installing 0.20.1 and some system updates (maybe thanks to reboot)
> Now, "working" is a loose term in this case, unfortunately.. the only
> controls that work are play and stop (can't pause/ff/rw/etc.). Well,
> *can* trick it into pausing by using PS button :) Are those features in
> development or just broken for me?

Hm, I thought at least "pause" was supposed to work; I don't own a PS3,
sorry. FF/RW is a bit tricky due to the transcoding, depending on which
method the PS3 actually supports, that might work in 0.22.

> Also, is there anything that can be tuned -- encoding quality, for
> example? Subtitles would be awesome..

There's an alternate MPEG2 encoding preset with improved quality but
also quite high CPU consumption in rygel's git repository:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/rygel/tree/examples/presets/avenc_mpeg2video.prs

Just replace the original avenc_mpeg2video.prs file with that.

"Internal" subtitles are a feature request, unfortunately not very high
up currently.