x264 PS3 Query

[Gabriel87]

Ok. For those who follow Anime (Naruto in particular).

Naruto is now being released in HD. x264 avi format from an anime sub group.

Only thing is the avi container for x264 isnt supported by ps3.

Is it possible to change the container (plus anything else it needs) without having to completely re-encode the bloody thing??

For one 20 min episode, it took an hour and 15 mins last night. Sure it isnt that long, but it'll become annoying when i have to do it every week just to change a few little things on it.

[guns1inger]

You might be able to demux it from the avi container, put it into an mkv container, then use mkv2vob to get it into a VOB that the PS3 can play. The demux/remux would be manual though, but there would be no re-encoding.

[Gabriel87]

Wow that sounds confusing... lol.

[Baldrick]

What is the audio details?

You can also try use yamb and make a mp4 from the h264 avi video. You might have reconvert the audio.

[poisondeathray]

PS3 is very picky with what it will accept.

Assuming your x264 video is compliant (can't have more than a few consecutive b-frames, has to be level AVC level 4.1 or lower...etc, etc...), and your audio is compliant, you can just replace the container with avidemux (free). All this does is copy the video & audio stream and puts it into a new container, and should take about a minute or two at most (no re-encoding)

1) Open video with avidemux
2) Video sidebar set "copy"
3) Audio sidebar set "copy"
4) Format sidear set "mp4"
5) Press save with extension (e.g. "myfile.mp4")

This will play back on your pc, but if any portion of the original was not compliant with PS3 specs, it will not play on the PS3 and you have to re-encode anyways.

Another option, is to use YAMB to demux the streams from the AVI (like guns1inger said above), and use the same program to repackage it into .mp4

Good luck