What i am trying to do is the following

- rip content of DVD on a HDD
- conserve chapters
- include extra languages
- subititles
- no quality loss (space is no issue)
- menu is bonus (1:1 copy or iso) but not necessary
- playable (via streamer or ps3 hdd) ps3

I get half of it done with DVD decrypter and the Java PS3 Mediacenter, missing chapters and other languages mostly.

Nope.

Whats the closest you can get to it, tho?

You can't get the two things you mentioned that you can't do. Also, subtitles seems to be an all or nothing endeavor, you either display them all the time, or never.

You can't get the two things you mentioned that you can't do. Also, subtitles seems to be an all or nothing endeavor, you either display them all the time, or never.
You can't do it streaming, but apparently you can do it with an AVCHD formatted disk. (which can be played from burned DVD or usb mass storage device)

I haven't tried it just yet as I've been working on getting DTS to stream, but that's my next tsmuxer/ps3 related project, as there are films that require subtitles to be fully understood. It would be nice if it were somehow possible to stream an avchd "disc" with subs, but no, at least according to everything I've read.

You can't do it streaming, but apparently you can do it with an AVCHD formatted disk. (which can be played from burned DVD or usb mass storage device)

I haven't tried it just yet as I've been working on getting DTS to stream, but that's my next tsmuxer/ps3 related project, as there are films that require subtitles to be fully understood. It would be nice if it were somehow possible to stream an avchd "disc" with subs, but no, at least according to everything I've read.

I will have to try that. Theoretically it should work off the PS3 hardrive as well because AVCHD is pretty much h.264 MP4 correct? A burned DVD should work in any bluray player as well. Googling now.

I will have to try that. Theoretically it should work off the PS3 hardrive as well because AVCHD is pretty much h.264 MP4 correct? A burned DVD should work in any bluray player as well. Googling now.
It's essentially a blu-ray formatted disk burned to a DVD and nominally created by one of the camcorders that does avchd. Format-wise, it's MPEG4/AVC with AC3 or PCM audio and a lower than blu-ray standard data rate.

The reason subs work is that they are stored in the same directory structure as they would be on a BD. They still aren't part of the same video/audio multiplex.

Edited to add: Prepare for a small venting...

I can now avoid transcoding DTS to AC3 thanks to spdifer, but the frakking thing won't write to a FIFO so I have to waste time writing out a gig or two of audio to disk, plus the extra time involved in reading it from disk rather than memory, which makes it hardly any faster than the transcode, although the audio quality is better. But I'm still wasting somewhere between a gig and two gigs of disk space to do it.

And I can copy the DTS audio into a fake wav file using ffmpeg (which will write to a FIFO) then editing the header correctly, but then I get nice pink noise. Frustrating!

Why is there not a Linux version or equivalent of spdifer? Grumble!

^ That sounds like a lot of frakkin' work. May the Gods be with you.

RE: subtitles and h.264

With Handbrake, there is an option for forced subtitles only. I always leave this option on. This option will not show subtitles unless there is a scene where the director intended subtitles such as a scene that may involve a brief dialogue in a foreign language. For foreign movies, I rip with the subtitles and they are permanently superimposed but to me it is not an issue because personally I have no interest in turning those subtitles off.

^ That sounds like a lot of frakkin' work. May the Gods be with you.
Eh, it's automated, or will be shortly. I'm just annoyed I have to use a temporary file, as I can do the DTS->AC3 transcode without one, so it eats up a lot of the time savings.

any news regarding this? havent kept up with recent firmware released and/or new converters.