how to play 7D videos on PS3?

[maximus96]

Can anybody help? I just got a 7D yesterday and tried to play some video files on my PS3 and it didn't work. I tried the method of exporting it in quicktime to mp4 but that also didn't work. i keep getting the unsupported format error on the ps3. thanks

[basroil]

Can anybody help? I just got a 7D yesterday and tried to play some video files on my PS3 and it didn't work. I tried the method of exporting it in quicktime to mp4 but that also didn't work. i keep getting the unsupported format error on the ps3. thanks

the video should be fine, it's the PCM audio that's the issue. If you have windows, plenty of options if you search around. In OSX, fewer options, though iMovie should be able to re-encode for you.

[iplayazi]

http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/create/2007/03/20/encoding_video_for_your_playstation_3

Helped me out but I must add I used 20000 kbits/s as appose to 2000kb/s said on site. It came out very pixelated but the 20000 was great

[basroil]

http://www.hydrapinion.com/index.php/create/2007/03/20/encoding_video_for_your_playstation_3

Helped me out but I must add I used 20000 kbits/s as appose to 2000kb/s said on site. It came out very pixelated but the 20000 was great

for 1080p, an average of 10mbps should let it keep near bluray quality, and 4mbps for 720p. For very good (but not bluray) quality, 5mbps and 2000kbps should work just fine. Pixelated video often comes from poor encoding quality on top of too low of a bit-rate. quicktime (pro) is known to be a very poor encoder, nowhere near the level of x264 or the codecs premiere pro and avid use. Good encoders should let you trim down the bitrate numbers while retaining quality, and always do a two-pass of video (or more passes... some older MPEG2 encoders for DVDs used up to over a dozen passes)


EDIT: And I forgot, make sure to use main profile 4.1 if you do 1080p video (4.1 or 3.1 for 720p), more or less any DXVA compatible feed should work with the PS3 (and video straight from the camera is actually DXVA compatible, if it wasn't for the need for mac support, they could move premiere pro to dx10 or dx11 and have GPU acceleration like a lot of other programs have, so no laggy video and much faster encoding)

[ChrisMc73]

try handbrake

[Tony-S]

+1 for Handbrake.

[oposky2006]

there are may be the codec probelm when conversion. And i know Pavtube Video Converter can offer VFW codec encoding to help u deal with such problem.

[Roenbaeck]

You can use the open source tool ffmpeg (which I installed using MacPorts on Snow Leopard) to produce a file that the PS3 can play, with lossless conversion of the video and lossy AAC-encoding of the raw PCM audio found in the MOV container. Quicktime X unfortunately lacks the necessary options to remux the video, hence why I switched to ffmpeg, which also should be available on Windows, Linux, etc.

This is how I invoke ffmpeg to remux the video and transcode the audio into an MP4 container:

ffmpeg -i MVI_0028.MOV -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac -ab 320k MVI_0028.mp4

Where MVI_0028.MOV is the file from the camera. A bitrate of 320kbps for the audio works, whereas I had problems getting "Corrupt File" on the PS3 when trying some other bitrates for some reason.

Regards,
Lars

Edit: I am running firmware 3.15 on my PS3.

[Roenbaeck]

I've made a bash script to batch convert files in one directory. Here's the code:

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE="/Volumes/VIDEO/7D RAW Clips"
TARGET="/Volumes/VIDEO/7D Converted PS3 Clips"

echo Remuxing and transocoding files
echo Source directory: $SOURCE
echo Target directory: $TARGET

for f in $(ls "${SOURCE}" | egrep ".MOV$")
do
fb=`basename ${f} .MOV`
echo Current file: ${fb}
ffmpeg -i "${SOURCE}/${fb}.MOV" -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac -ab 320k "${TARGET}/${fb}.mp4"
done