Subbed MKV To PS3 Efficiently?

[Startropic1]

I have a bunch of softsubbed MKVs that I need to convert to be playable on my PS3. The thing is, regardless of how I convert these MKVs, they will end up on a DVD in some way shape or form. Therefore if the simplest thing to do is to convert them to a regular DVD video, that will work just fine. My first attempt was with DVDFlick. I extracted the subs (.srt) from the mkvs and then whe I tried adding these subs in DVDFlick it said they were corrupted. So I opened the .srt files in Subtitle Workshop. I kept getting an error that said "some of the streams of the movie could not be rendered correctly. Probably the audio or video codec is missing." These mkvs do play fine in VLC btw. The .srt files loaded anyway and I saved them again, thus filtering them through Subtitle Workshop. After this DVDFlick accepted them and I made the DVD ISO. However when I played the video the sound was waaay out of sync. Actually what happens is the video freezes at the very beginning and thus the video ends up being behind the audio track.

So why isn't DVD Flick working, and other than this what's my best option for being able to watch these on my PS3?

Here's the MediaInfo log of one of the MKVs:

General
Format : Matroska
File size : 311 MiB
Duration : 23mn 24s
Overall bit rate : 1 856 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2008-06-19 19:33:36
Writing application : mkvmerge v2.2.0 ('Turn It On Again') built on Mar 4 2008 12:58:26
Writing library : libebml v0.7.7 + libmatroska v0.8.1
Cover : Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 16 frames
Muxing mode : Container profile=Unknown@5.1
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 23mn 24s
Bit rate : 1 400 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Original display aspect ratio : 3:2
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Standard : NTSC
Resolution : 8 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.169
Stream size : 230 MiB (74%)
Writing library : x264 core 60 r886M 1075536
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:1:1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=7 / rdcmp=psy / brdo=1 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / chroma_qp_offset=0 / threads=1 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=1 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / bime=1 / keyint=240 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / rc=2pass / bitrate=1400 / ratetol=4.0 / rceq='blurCplx^(1-qComp)' / qcomp=1.00 / qpmin=12 / qpmax=40 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=2:1.00
Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Format_Settings_ModeExtension : CM (complete main)
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 23mn 24s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 75.0 MiB (24%)
Title : Japanese Audio (AC3 2.0)
Language : Japanese
Text #1
ID : 3
Format : ASS
Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Title : English Subtitles (ASS)
Language : English
Text #2
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Title : English Subtitles (SRT)
Language : English
Menu #1
00:00:00.000 : :Opening / :Ending
00:01:30.423 : :Prologue
00:02:25.379 : :Part A
00:11:21.614 : :Part B
00:22:54.707 : :Preview
Menu #2
00:00:00.000 : :Opening / :Ending
00:01:30.423 : :Prologue
00:02:25.379 : :Part A
00:11:21.614 : :Part B
00:22:54.707 : :Preview

[Baldrick]

dvd flick may not with all mkvs. Maybe just try avstodvd (free) or convertxtodvd.

[Startropic1]

dvd flick may not with all mkvs. Maybe just try avstodvd (free) or convertxtodvd.

Convertxtodvd didn't like the x264 streams.

I used avstodvd and it did the job successfully, but it took over 3 hours to do 1 DVD (and could only fit 8 episodes, although that's the nature of DVD, not a problem with the program itself.)

Is there any better solution to making these videos playable on PS3?

[guns1inger]

The AVCHD format allows for standard definition video. I would try using Multi-AVCHD to create an AVCHD structure for burning onto a DVD blank. This should preserve your soft subs, give you menus, and if your video and audio is AVCHD compliant, do so without re-encoding, which will be quicker than creating DVDs.