Comments on: Streaming Movies over 802.11g WiFi to a PS3

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:35:05 +0000

Thanks Eric. figured that out the hard way. The file actually wound up being 24 Gig!! Sticking to the PS3 presets seems to work very well. Even the dark scenes stream very well.

By: eric

eric — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:04:24 +0000

@ncaa1993 You should never use CQF of 100%. A 12 gig MPEG is bigger than the actual movie on the DVD (DVDs are usually around either 4.5 or 9 gigs). The Handbrake manual actually addresses this: HandBrake Constant Quality Docs "So should you use 100% to perfectly preserve the source? Nope. Not at all. In fact, you'll end up with video that's way larger than the DVD, but doesn't look any better."

By: ncaa1993

ncaa1993 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:13:38 +0000

Currently using Handbrake to RIP owned DVDs for PS3 streaming. Using a Twonky Media Server. I’ve used the PS3 preset without any issues. Also using the following settings for other pojects:

Output Settings:Custom
Format:MP4
Codecs: AVC/H.264 Video/AAC Audio

Video Tab
Frame rate (FPS): Same as source (23.976)
Encoder: x264
Quality: Constant Quality: 100% (60% is default for PS3)

Audio Tab:
Audio Quality
Bitrate (kbps): 160
Sample Rate (khz): 48

Everything else is default. a 2 hour and 30 minute film will produce a file size of 12 Gig so only use these settings if you have a lot of storage space on your media server (which I do…2 TB). The default PS3 preset for the same film yielded a file size of 2 Gig so the Quality setting impacts the file size greatly. I am far from an expert on Video encoding so this had been a little trial and error on my part. I do agree that you will have issues with streaming if using 802.11g, as I did when I first started playing with video. I updated to 802.11n earlier this week (Linksys WRT160N) and also connected a wireless N bridge (Linksys WET610) to the Ethernet port on the PS3. BIG difference. My Media server is in the basement and PS3 is on the second floor. I no longer have buffering issues (no more stuttering during playback).

On another note, I set my Twonky Media Server timer to -1 and it works intermittently. Could be a bug in the OS I’m running on it but I can work around it by manually rescanning so no biggie.

Next project is to get another wireless bridge and connect it to Sony XBR6 to stream netflix using PlayOn. Im guessing it will work well with PS3 as well. We’ll see how that works.

By: none

none — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:15:20 +0000

2. Twonky Media Server seems to work well, but it’s not free. It has some quirks with finding new content that you place into the media directory. Most notably, you have to restart the process for it to see them.
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There is an timer you set, and each time it reach zero Twonky will look for new files.
Set timer to “-1″ and it will look for new files at all time (like windows)

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