Comments on: avisynth/mencoder transcoding for ps3 media server on windows 7

By: myuu

myuu — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:54:40 +0000

Haven’t measured its exact t/put, but so far no hiccups with all 1080p material I’ve played so far. The flying cranes scene from Planet Earth came out OK (except for some very slight jutter, which I think is just my TV).

Pricewise yeah, it’s expensive. But ppl tell me CAT 5e works just as well.

By: biatch0

biatch0 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:31:58 +0000

Hows the throughput after you switched to CAT6? I’m thinking about doing the same but the price is disturbing once you multiply it by the amount of cables you need.

By: myuu

myuu — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:55:34 +0000

Well, what I did was just lay CAT6 from the PS3 to The Behemoth, straight to a bridged Gigabit adapter to bypass the router. Electricity use is definitely a concern, so will probably need to work out some sleep/wakeup scheme to keep my RSS torrents working.

I wish they’d bring in the Drobo. That’s something I’d like to get my hands on.

By: biatch0

biatch0 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:36:58 +0000

Try playing around with the other switches ie. vqscale, vqmin.

After the amount of trouble I’ve gone through with transcoding, I gave up and decided muxing beforehand is more worth it (and it saves the trouble/electricity of turning on “The Behemoth”).

Or we could just wait for the PS3 to support MKV natively.

By: myuu

myuu — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:31:11 +0000

So it seems that the PS3 bandwidth display can be wrong when data is not coming as much as it should. PMS bitrate display shows actual transmit of 70000kbps during stuttering. I guess I can’t expect Ethernet to be 100% efficient at 100Mbps. Will probably need to upgrade to a Gigabit network.

But in the meantime, the maximum bandwidth option still doesn’t work. :S

By: myuu

myuu — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:53:49 +0000

yep, vsfilter.dll is not needed in plugins dir if it’s already autoloaded as part of the directshow source.

only remaining issue is network bandwidth. my core i7 is totally blazing through the transcode, but at some parts traffic can go up to 170Mbps (was testing with 10,000BC 1080p, during the aerial shots). the maximum bandwidth option with mencoder doesn’t seem to work.