Streaming BD to PS3 – is it that good?

[ukchevy]

Hi, please help.
I am new to streaming BD to PS3 so I may have misunderstood something but is the quality really as good as actually playing a BD movie from the original disc?
This is what I have tried so far:
I ripped a Blu-Ray to my HDD using Anydvd, then I used TSMuxer to remux just the H264, AC3 and PGS into a new “.m2ts” file then renamed it “.mpg”
I then tried streaming it using Vista’s WMP and it seemed to be working fine but I noticed to activity lights on the gigabit switch were not flickering as much as if I tried to copy the file from 1 PC to another.
Another odd thing, the PS3 showed the file as an MPEG, I did try streaming the same file using Twonky and that showed up on the PS3 as MPEG2

[Baldrick]

You can also try stream the m2ts directly using ps3 media server and see how it looks like.

[jagabo]

I then tried streaming it using Vista’s WMP and it seemed to be working fine but I noticed to activity lights on the gigabit switch were not flickering as much as if I tried to copy the file from 1 PC to another.

How long does it take to stream a 90 minute movie from the computer to the PS3? Answer: 90 minutes. How long does it take to copy the 90 minute movie from one computer to another? Answer: It depends on the file size but probably around 15 minutes (for a 20 GB file). Hence the difference in switch activity.

[ukchevy]

Thanks I will have a go with ps3 media server, however.
If the PS3 is showing either MPEG or MPEG-2 for the same file but depending on which server software I use do you think one is really converting it to a lower standard?

[ukchevy]

I got PS3 Media Server working, it listed the .m2ts file and played it OK but when I tried it again, instead of listing the file the PS3 just showed a folder called #--TRANSCODE--#, when I selected it, it showed another folder with the same name as the movie, when I selected that folder it sayed "There are no tracks".
The only setting I changed was the Shared folders, I changed share the folder where I want to keep my files rather than the whole PC.

[guns1inger]

Restart PS3 Media Server. Sometimes it glitches. It is written in Java after all, not a robust programming language. Sometimes it stops reading files correctly. A restart of the Media Server software gets it going again.

[mshilly]

Play the m2ts directly on the PS3 through Twonky or some other media server. I have done about 25 BDs and HD-DVDs and I know in the case of the BDs it is the exact same quality as the disc. The HD-DVDs have to be reencoded and for the most part they also look fantastic. Since I don't have an HD-DVD player connected to my HDTV I cannot say for sure they are identicle, but depending on the source the output is equivalent to the BDs.

[ukchevy]

I tried a reboot and all that seems to work is PS3 Media Server will only sever still picture files, any folder with movies in just shows as #--TRANSCODE--#