Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > #!/bin/sh > > mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -channels 6 -of mpeg -mpegopts > format=dvd:tsaf -vf softskip,scale=720:-2,hqdn3d,harddup -srate 48000 -af > lavcresample=48000:volnorm=2 -ofps 25 -lavcopts > vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=5120:

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Bronsdon
Hello Terry, Sorry for posting twice in a row but I didn't realise exactly the question. As before I've got a PS3 working quite nicely. The main script I use is included below. It produces some large files but it does work on the PS3. I've had this working up to 720p content just fine so I

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:14:46 -, Terry Coles wrote: > Even if it won't stream, we can still copy files to the PS3 manually and > watch them that way. If the PS3 can play it then it can stream it - I've been using mediatomb for some time now and am very impressed. I've even got mediatomb

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 18 Jan 2010, Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: > Have you looked at HandBrake ( http://handbrake.fr )? I believe it has an > encoding preset specifically for the PS3. Bingo! That is a seriously easy to use piece of software. I didn't see any specific settings for PS3, but I simply use

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell
2010/1/18 Terry Coles > On Monday 18 Jan 2010, Dan Dart wrote: > > The audio may be in an unrecognised format. Have you tried -ao mp3lame > > in mencoder? > > But unrecognised by what? Will that encoding provide an audio stream that > is > recognised by the PS3; remember the original encoding wo

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 18 Jan 2010, Dan Dart wrote: > The audio may be in an unrecognised format. Have you tried -ao mp3lame > in mencoder? But unrecognised by what? Will that encoding provide an audio stream that is recognised by the PS3; remember the original encoding worked fine on the Linux box. --

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Dan Dart
The audio may be in an unrecognised format. Have you tried -ao mp3lame in mencoder? 2010/1/18 Ralph Corderoy : > > Hi Terry, > >> I never got round to following up on this.  The file apparently >> converted OK and I was able to play it on my machine using MPlayer and >> Kaffeine.  However, once it

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > I never got round to following up on this. The file apparently > converted OK and I was able to play it on my machine using MPlayer and > Kaffeine. However, once it had streamed, no audio arrived at the PS3 > (or at least if it did, it didn't know what to do with it). Perhaps one o

Re: [Dorset] Encoding Video for streaming

2010-01-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday 16 Jan 2010, Terry Coles wrote: > On Saturday 16 Jan 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > > MPEG1/2 does not support 2997/100 fps > > > > Try adding > > > > -ofps 3/1001 > > > > to the command line. > > Well that's converting, but I've 17 minutes to wait to see if it's worked! I ne

[Dorset] Peter's internet problem

2010-01-18 Thread Peter Harris
Thanks for your help John. 9.10 is up and running - problem solved. Thanks also to all who offered to assist. Regards Peter. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wed 2010-02-03 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2645413 Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.bli