Reply to: PS3 + Cinavia

[scooby]

if you're using something like utorrent then you should be able to mux automatically after it downloads using the post download events, copy it to a directory you have tversity pointed at and then allow it to be picked up when the library refreshes.

If it was something I did more often then I would probably do it but the only downloading I do is TV shows to watch during the week on the laptop.

It would be nice if the PS3 would just play the sodding MKV files though

I'm a newsgroup person, so using the free software which all seem to be around 15yrs old and not had an update since!

I mostly download TV, as the recent spate of films released on bluray have been tulipe... Last year was tulip for films! Hopefully the new NAS coming today will solve the issue... probably not tho.

[Spacecadet]

Always struggled to get that to work for me... TSMuxer constantly crashes. Plus i dont want to download a film, then have to fiddle, I want to just play it. I may be asking too much though...

if you're using something like utorrent then you should be able to mux automatically after it downloads using the post download events, copy it to a directory you have tversity pointed at and then allow it to be picked up when the library refreshes.

If it was something I did more often then I would probably do it but the only downloading I do is TV shows to watch during the week on the laptop.

It would be nice if the PS3 would just play the sodding MKV files though

[scooby]

you don't need to convert the files, the PS3 can read the contents of a MKV file but not in an MKV container.
The MKV file just needs remuxing into an MP4 file and takes a matter of seconds. I use:
mkv2vob Forums

Always struggled to get that to work for me... TSMuxer constantly crashes. Plus i dont want to download a film, then have to fiddle, I want to just play it. I may be asking too much though...

[Spacecadet]

D'urrr Of course it wont play Xbox, I bought a wii for that!!

Its the fact that they are applying security to something which has been unlocked forever... Why is no one else doing it?

The fact its a media centre and can be controlled with a remote type device is the draw, a PC / Laptop means you have to control it from machine. The answer is actually a media centre extender, however these are in rare supply and also I need them to play MKV as everything i watch is HD... Suggestions? Cheap as, but something that will work...

you don't need to convert the files, the PS3 can read the contents of a MKV file but not in an MKV container.
The MKV file just needs remuxing into an MP4 file and takes a matter of seconds. I use:
mkv2vob Forums

[Spacecadet]

There is only Sony that do it AFAIK... They have now lost my custom forever. Im getting sick the control people are trying to put in place.

Not just Sony:
Cinavia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[scooby]

When you hit sound issues, put the PS3 date forward a year

It's a good workaround for now

Might try that later, ta. the problem i then have is the streaming and resuming, not starting from the beginning... Is that due to the media server software (TVersity)?

[amcdonald]

When you hit sound issues, put the PS3 date forward a year

It's a good workaround for now

[Scrag Meister]

I used DivX Convertor, Not free though, to convert MKV/AC3 to AVI.

Edit : This will not solve the Cinavia problem.

My PS3 is purely for Bluray use, don't like controllers.

[stek]

When converting with IVI, do you lose quality? can you connect to a media server on a windows 7 PC (TVersity) with it?

It converts it to mp4 - H.264 I think? Looks cock-on to me on iPad. Dunno bout TVersity, it's all via iTunes.

[scooby]

iTunes, IVI, AppleTV 3 and sorted, it's a two touch operation, download torrent, drag it onto IVI, its in iTunes with poster art and details as if bought in 20 mins if a big HD movie.

Apple TV is 99 quid, and the remote is 15 quid alone in Apple Store, and is a metallic work of art, I just love even picking it up. IVI costs a humongous £2.49.

Watching 'The Prestige' in HD now, - d/l to seedbox, 3 mins, drag to iMac, 30 mins (weakest link - 5gb file) , convert with IVI, 15 mins - sorted.

PS3 was venerable old warhorse, great media player, but that was then, Apple TV3 is loads better, and as I don't really play games, it's only of use for Blueray, of which I have one.

When converting with IVI, do you lose quality? can you connect to a media server on a windows 7 PC (TVersity) with it?

[stek]

D'urrr Of course it wont play Xbox, I bought a wii for that!!

Its the fact that they are applying security to something which has been unlocked forever... Why is no one else doing it?

The fact its a media centre and can be controlled with a remote type device is the draw, a PC / Laptop means you have to control it from machine. The answer is actually a media centre extender, however these are in rare supply and also I need them to play MKV as everything i watch is HD... Suggestions? Cheap as, but something that will work...

iTunes, IVI, AppleTV 3 and sorted, it's a two touch operation, download torrent, drag it onto IVI, its in iTunes with poster art and details as if bought in 20 mins if a big HD movie.

Apple TV is 99 quid, and the remote is 15 quid alone in Apple Store, and is a metallic work of art, I just love even picking it up. IVI costs a humongous £2.49.

Watching 'The Prestige' in HD now, - d/l to seedbox, 3 mins, drag to iMac, 30 mins (weakest link - 5gb file) , convert with IVI, 15 mins - sorted.

PS3 was venerable old warhorse, great media player, but that was then, Apple TV3 is loads better, and as I don't really play games, it's only of use for Blueray, of which I have one.

[scooby]

So you bought a Sony content delivery system and now you're cross it won't act as a generic media device? So just use a laptop/PC like everyone else - why are you surprised/indignant? It won't play X-Box games either!

D'urrr Of course it wont play Xbox, I bought a wii for that!!

Its the fact that they are applying security to something which has been unlocked forever... Why is no one else doing it?

The fact its a media centre and can be controlled with a remote type device is the draw, a PC / Laptop means you have to control it from machine. The answer is actually a media centre extender, however these are in rare supply and also I need them to play MKV as everything i watch is HD... Suggestions? Cheap as, but something that will work...

[d000hg]

So you bought a Sony content delivery system and now you're cross it won't act as a generic media device? So just use a laptop/PC like everyone else - why are you surprised/indignant? It won't play X-Box games either!

[scooby]

I'm still not sure what you mean there

Had the problem with one film I had downloaded - although I don't generally torrent films but this was an exception
Ended up connecting the wifes laptop to the TV using HDMI.

AFAIK cinavia only effects some movies and is used to watermark blu-ray and DVD content.

Apple TV don't do it for now but I'd assume that it is only a matter of time before they introduce something similar if required. Sony, being also a film distributor, already have it in their best interests to protect the copyright.

There is only Sony that do it AFAIK... They have now lost my custom forever. Im getting sick the control people are trying to put in place.

[Spacecadet]

It's a softcopy, not a bluray... It's only some films though. the xbox played it in full, so did the PC

I'm still not sure what you mean there

Had the problem with one film I had downloaded - although I don't generally torrent films but this was an exception
Ended up connecting the wifes laptop to the TV using HDMI.

AFAIK cinavia only effects some movies and is used to watermark blu-ray and DVD content.

Apple TV don't do it for now but I'd assume that it is only a matter of time before they introduce something similar if required. Sony, being also a film distributor, already have it in their best interests to protect the copyright.