View Full Version : For those in the UK - PS3 replaying BBC HD recordings


sneals2000
05-28-07, 09:38 AM
Slightly off topic - but then also slightly on topic. Probably only of interest to UK members - but then might not be!

Have been searching for a way of replaying BBC HD off-air recordings (1440x1088/50i encoded in H264 AVC with MBAFF extensions) made with a DVB-T receiver and TSReader. My PC just about plays them - but struggles to de-interlace in real-time and my Dell display is 60Hz only so gives 10Hz motion judder.

The transport stream recordings made by my software don't replay natively on the PS3. It just spits them out.

Been looking at various solutions - like transcoding to HDV2 format etc. - but then stumbled across a simple, but very neat, solution. TSRemux (I'm using v0.0.8) will take a BBC HD recording, detect the AVC and DolbyDigital streams within it, remap them their PIDs to something more standard, and remux them to m2ts streams, and add timestamps. This effectively creates an AVC transport stream (a bit like an AVCHD file from an AVCHD camcorder I believe) that can be burned to DVD+R (UDF format) and replay on the PS3 in all it's original 50Hz interlaced glory.

I get a single 30 minute chunk onto a DVD5.

Very simple, and it works, the PS3 reports the correct duration of the file and allows you to FF and REW with no problems. Only downside is the 5.1 audio gets replayed as 2.0 - but that seems to be a PS3 issue when replaying file based video?

TSRemux might also work for those using a PS3 to replay MPEG2 transport streams that broke under more recent firmware upgrades?

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125447

Is the link to the software download and support thread.