{"id":12,"date":"2010-12-21T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2010-12-21T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:20:00","slug":"ps3-file-conversionmkv-to-vob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/ps3-file-conversionmkv-to-vob\/","title":{"rendered":"PS3 File Conversion(mkv to vob)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<div>PlayStation 3 supports lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/manuals.playstation.net\/document\/en\/ps3\/current\/video\/filetypes.html\">file formats<\/a>. However PS3 doesnt play most famous HD files container <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matroska.org\/\">mkv<\/a>. Another limitation of PS3 is it doesn&#8217;t support any file system except FAT32. And FAT32 has limitation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntfs.com\/ntfs_vs_fat.htm\">4GB<\/a> file size. And most of the HD files will easily cross 4GB limit.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I used to watch HD movies on my PS3 since it is connected to TV and HT; and other movies(which doesnt require special video\/audio effects) on my desktop computer. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So to watch movie in mkv format on PS3, it should be converted to PS3 compatible format(<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VOB\">VOB<\/a>) and the output file(s) size should be less than 4GB. For this I have been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mkv2vob.com\/\">mkv2vob<\/a>, this tool transcodes DTS to AC3(if necessary) otherwise just copies video\/audio streams to output file which in vob format. It also does good job by splitting the files so that a single file is always <><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Recently this tool was not able to convert a mkv file, so I have to try different tools. The first tool I tried was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediacoderhq.com\/\"> media coder<\/a>; after few trial and errors I was able to convert mkv to vob. However it doesnt have provision for splitting the file. So I went through few forums to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videohelp.com\/tools\/GOTSent\">GOTSent<\/a>. It did the job but took lot of time(~15-20min) than mkv2vob.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After all this, I started watching that movie and realized that particular doesn&#8217;t have any special effects(audio\/video) but needs subtitles; instead of transcoding it again &#8211; I just watched it in my computer. Either I should lay cable between my router and PS3 so that<a href=\"http:\/\/ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com\/\"> PS3 Media Server<\/a> or I should develop a wireless router which can communicate at 1G speed. I feel the later more interesting \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation 3 supports lot of file formats. However PS3 doesnt play most famous HD files container mkv. Another limitation of PS3 is it doesn&#8217;t support any file system except FAT32. And FAT32 has limitation of 4GB file size. And most of the HD files will easily cross 4GB limit. I used to watch HD movies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samueldotj.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}