When you use tsMuxer to transmux your file from mkv to ts, make sure you change the x.264 video to level4.1 and your sound is ac3 dolby digital.  If your resulting ts file play with sound but no picture, then its likely the video format is not compatible with ps3.  Most mkv file i download is compatible with only a few that is not.  If you come across those mkv files that has video stream that is not compatible with ps3, then you need to convert it using mkv2vob.  Next time I will avoid those mkv files from certain authors to avoid lengthy time in converting them.

For smaller file size after conversion from mkv2vob, its normal because you are converting the dts track to ac3 which is much smaller file size.  So far i did not notice any drop in video quality...and dolby digital sound fine to me...

Ok. Thanks!. I already make moves like yours - downloading from certain authors. So, the only way, right now, to be able to watch the movie is to convert it using mkv2vob, right?
The file is 11GB.   

Yeah, I did not notice any loss in quality as well.
Thanks for the explanation.

For movie that comes with subtitles, is there any way I can make it displayed during playback using PS3. I tried download movie with subtitle, and convert it using tsmuxer and mkv2vob

For tsmuxer, no success. Even if I add the subtitle file with the movie during conversion to .ts.
For mkv2vob, also no success. I already tried different configuration.

One is to use tsmuxer to make a bluray disc and burn on dvd disc which can be play with your ps3 which you can then toggle the subtitles on or off.

is there any other software where we can use to stream avi files to the ps3?

guys,

i need some help here. i've done the tutorials and have set tversity running as a service on my pc AND enabled media server on my ps3 but when i scan for media servers from ps3.... none found. what am i doing wrong here? newbie....... thanks!

At the moment PS3 do not support subtitles and multiple audio for ts, vob or mp4.

There are 2 ways you can watch your movies with subtitles.  One is to use tsmuxer to make a bluray disc and burn on dvd disc which can be play with your ps3 which you can then toggle the subtitles on or off.

The other ways is to re-encode the video stream with mkv2vob and remember to check the encode subtitles.

Uhh.. TVersity works great with .AVI files too.. what's wrong with your setup?

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Added on January 3, 2009, 12:06 pm

Did you add the files (by browsing the folders) on your TVersity PC?

You have to manually add those files in the folders so that it can share and broadcast them to your PS3 otherwise your PS3 only able to read blank folders! 

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Added on January 3, 2009, 12:10 pm

I find re-encoding using mkv2vob takes too much time..esp for 1-2 hour movie.

What I found is especially for DIVX .AVI files, which has an external .SRT
subtitles, it is much easier to join the .AVI video file and the .SRT file together and create a new .AVI (DIVX format) file.
This way, you can use the subtitle button and it works!

The process takes 2-5 minutes depending on the size of your file and speed of your PC.

thanks for replying dan....  i did add the folder which contains my mkv files and ensured that tversity services are running as per lightning69's tutorial. when i did a scan for media servers from my ps3...... it said none found btw i'm using an aztech wireless g router.. any ideas why it can't detect my tversity from my pc? one observation was the wifi light didn't blink on either my ps3 nor my router

alot of my avi files are with srt subtitles, so i got no choice except to join them together?

Lastr night i try PMC (PS3 Media Server not MGS4 PMC)works great...streaming MKV ..haha no need to transfer or convert any files
watch teran-pomer last night...fuyoh Dolby digital..

Just wondering, what version is ur PS3's firmware? I heard those new firmwares are buggy....streaming video ain't smooth. Any idea if this is true? (afraid to update firmware lol)

don't know why but mine is kinda jerky during streaming, and shows freeze and continue every once in a while. got pissed off after a few times and decided to copy it to the ps using tversity and delete it after watching anyone facing similar problems?

fyi my computer is just 2-3m away from the router and the router is just 3-4m away from the ps3. nothing stands in between.

btw i do get errors like 2104 every now and then too.

Lastr night i try PMC (PS3 Media Server not MGS4 PMC)works great...streaming MKV ..haha no need to transfer or convert any files
watch teran-pomer last night...fuyoh Dolby digital..