Automated XVID to MPEG1?

[SevenNine]

Hi,

I just got the 1.80 firmware update for ps3 and was interested in watching my videos streamed over wifi from my pc to my ps3. Unfortunately most of my video files are in xvid or divx, which the ps3 does not support.

SO, what I would like to do is somehow AUTOMATE the conversion. So every time a new file is added to a certain directory, a batch process is fired off that converts the file from xvid to MPEG1.

Is this possible? I am using windows vista and know how to program scripts. I guess the only questions is: What is the easiest application that would allow me to fire it off from the command line and quickly convert the video file to the desired format.

Thank you very much!

[Baldrick]

Have you tried tversity?

[SevenNine]

Have you tried tversity?

You know I have heard that name mentioned, but only on message boards where people were having difficulty getting it to stream to their ps3s. I see now that a update was released just today that supports the ps3 update, so I think I will give it a shot. I have already tried the Nero Media Home transcoding to get those xvids streamed to my ps3 and that was a mixed bag. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Furthermore you lose things like pause and fast-foward, which drove me nuts.

I'll give tversity a shot, but my guess is that I will ultimately need the file conversion that I mentioned. So far ffmpeg is looking like a possibility. It looks like I should be able to run it from the command line to do the conversion that I need.

[Soopafresh]

You can easily automate the encoding of Xvid to Mpeg1 as files are added to a directory.

ffmpeg will work quite well for this purpose. The second thing you need is an app to search for the existence of new files in a folder. Here's one of the more rudimentary ones, but it does the job.

waitdirchg.zip

Also waitfilecomplete will ensure the ffmpeg encoding doesn't start too early

http://www.gdps.dk/downloads/WaitFileComplete.zip

An untested batch file would look like something like this (you'll have to tweak the ffmpeg settings)

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rem - wait for any files being added to the folder, then begin processing
waitdirchg

rem - ensure the AVI has been completely copied to the folder before encoding to mpeg
for %%a in (*.avi) do waitfilecomplete "%%a" & ffmpeg -i "%%a" -vcodec mpeg1video "%~na.mpg"

rem - rename the AVI files in the folder so the batch doesn't re-encode them on the next round
ren *.avi *.done

rem - loop back up and wait once again for a change in the directory
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