Patrick Hartman » ps3 http://www.patrickhartman.com web development, photoshop scripting and other thoughts Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:57:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Streaming HD movies to PS3 http://www.patrickhartman.com/2009/08/08/streaming-hd-movies-to-ps3/ http://www.patrickhartman.com/2009/08/08/streaming-hd-movies-to-ps3/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:08:50 +0000 Patrick http://www.patrickhartman.com/?p=7 I recently found out that I could stream HD video files to my PS3. If you have a file that is .m2ts, you can add it to your Tversity library and the PS3 will recognize it and play with no problems. However, often when you download a x264 movie it comes in the format .mkv which the PS3 does not support. Luckily there is a quick way to convert .mkv to .m2ts on PC:

  1. Download tsMuxer made by SmartWare (freeware)
  2. add your .mkv file to the Input Files area
  3. choose M2TS muxing in the Output area
  4. under General track options, set Change level to 4.0 if it defaults to a level higher then that
  5. click the Start muxing button and it will create you a new .m2ts file that you can stream to your PS3

The program is surprisingly fast, it usually takes me 1-2 minutes to convert a 5GB video file.

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The key seems to be changing the MTU value on the PS3 from automatic to 1496 (instructions). That’s it, all I did was change that on my PS3 and use the default Tversity settings and everything streams with no stuttering at all.

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