How to play/stream mkv in PS3

1. When streaming, the file size does not matter.
2. Don't know, because I leave mine as MKVs. PS3MS handles the conversion before the PS3 gets it. But, I don't think any streaming supports chapter stops.
3. Solution is build an HTPC. That's the route I finally went for streaming.
4. Only if you are copying them to the local hard drive. There's not a program to support .MKV on the PS3.

NOTE: if you are trying to do this wirelessly, you might as well give up. There are some that say they have success, but I have NEVER gotten it to work, and I KNOW what I'm doing. I have a very robust network here, lots of commercial grade stuff, top of the line wifi equipment, and the PS3 simply won't reliably stream HD video.

Start with a .mkv containing h264 video and AC3 (Dolby 5.1) audio, or a .mpg with MPEG2 and AC3. Do a simple container swap to .m2ts using tsMuxer in the case of the .mkv. This container swap should only take a couple minutes. Feed the .m2ts or .mpg to PS3 Media Server. PS3MS should then do no conversion whatsoever, resulting in the best possible quality and minimal CPU time on the PC's side.

That's really the best solution I have seen for local streaming to your PS3.

How do I build an HTPC?

1. No, I have files well over 20 gigs that I stream over my network. (1Gig Lan) Though, PS3 media server only detect 512MB of it.
2. Ps3media server default uses Mencoder, you can swap them around or tick on the option that said use Tmuxer.
3. Have you play with PS3 media server Quality settings? mine is 1,1,2 this uses high bandwidth without using too much of the CPU.
4. No, PS3 media server was created so that it can play MKV, (I watch a lot of anime, those are in MKV files now days)

My computer is, 1.7Ghz Quad core I7 CPU, 16Gig of ram, GTX 460M.
if you have a lot of memory, you can allocate some of that for PS3 media server, say something like 1200M

What version of PMS are you using? they just recently update it to 1.71, as far as I know, 1.70 and up can play MKV file with out having to add anything like AviSync or AVCore, etc..
oh mind if you could at lease post up the Debug log? that usually tell you why you're having problem.







Edited by kanti123 - 11/17/12 at 8:29pm