Re: Can't transcode .mkv to PS3

[Konstantin Svist <fry kun gmail com>]

On 10/30/2013 05:18 AM, Jens Georg wrote:
> On Do, 2013-10-17 at 10:15 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>
> > I'm willing to work on some code if you can help me get started :)
> > For some reason, ps3 lists pause/etc. as grayed out.. guessing it treats
> > transcoded stream as a live stream which can't be paused
> What's your gupnp-av version?

0.12.2-1.fc19

> > One trick that could be used is transcoding to a temp file and then
> > feeding it to PS3 as input. That would require extra HDD space/access,
> > so I wouldn't make it a default, but it would make life easier in some
> > cases.
> That would be one solution, but Rygel currently doesn't handle
> preprocessed sources very well; there is a patch to change that (don't
> offer the same content twice just because there are two files etc.) but
> it still needs some more work.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710628

Cool, there's a patch! I'll check it out


> > > > 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.
> > Neat, 720p content looks much better now! Though it's freezing every few
> > seconds... any chance to use multiple CPU cores for transcoding process?
> That's a question for GStreamer. There's something in the back of my
> mind about them disabling multi-thread encoding in libav.
>
> > > "Internal" subtitles are a feature request, unfortunately not very high
> > > up currently.
> >  It's a bit hard to watch foreign content without any translation ;)
> True.

Do you think subtitles would require reencoding the stream? Or are they
out-of-band?