Re: Can't transcode .mkv to PS3



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.



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