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OK, I tried posting for some advice and feedback over in the PS forum, but I think those guys are too busy arguing about Little Big Planet to help with my noobie issue
I know there are only like a million threads on the subject...but that's part of the problem: there are like a million threads on the subject!!! So maybe one of my Digital Media brethren will take pity on me and I can get a quick answer.
Just got a BD drive for Xmas and I'm trying to rip and stream content to my PS3. This is my first attempt, so I haven't played around much, but I used AnyDVD HD to just do a straight rip of the .m2ts files. I see these are supposed to be native to PS3, so I figured, for this BD anyway, I was good to go.
I ripped everything over to my HP MSS; I stream from it to the PS3 using the PVConnect Media Server. First run, PS3 is able to play the biggest of the .m2ts files, which is obviously the movie file and I'm pretty happy with the process. I've done the very small sample of 2 movies so far.
Then I ran into an unexpected snag: my 3rd sample just happen to be a Pushing Daisies disc (for the wife). When I browsed the disc, I saw the same .m2ts file structure (which I wasn't sure about...are all BDs .m2ts or does different encoding mean different file type? like, mpeg-2 and mpeg-4 are .m2ts, but VC-1 is something else?), and ripped it the same way as the 2 movie BDs. However, the 3 big files...5G a piece, which obviously represent the episodes on that disc...won't stream to PS3 the way the 2 previous movies did.
Now I should mention that the 2 movies I own, and the PD disc is a rental...shhhh; is that a big, naive duh on my part? Is their like super-duper protection on rental BDs that AnyDVD HD won't break...or maybe the movies, are older (which they are), and PD is a pretty new release, and AnyDVD HD just isn't 100% on encryption yet? Or is it a case where the TV series disc maybe needs another file, rather than playing the straight .m2ts like a movie would?
Thanks,
CD

I know there are only like a million threads on the subject...but that's part of the problem: there are like a million threads on the subject!!! So maybe one of my Digital Media brethren will take pity on me and I can get a quick answer.
Just got a BD drive for Xmas and I'm trying to rip and stream content to my PS3. This is my first attempt, so I haven't played around much, but I used AnyDVD HD to just do a straight rip of the .m2ts files. I see these are supposed to be native to PS3, so I figured, for this BD anyway, I was good to go.
I ripped everything over to my HP MSS; I stream from it to the PS3 using the PVConnect Media Server. First run, PS3 is able to play the biggest of the .m2ts files, which is obviously the movie file and I'm pretty happy with the process. I've done the very small sample of 2 movies so far.
Then I ran into an unexpected snag: my 3rd sample just happen to be a Pushing Daisies disc (for the wife). When I browsed the disc, I saw the same .m2ts file structure (which I wasn't sure about...are all BDs .m2ts or does different encoding mean different file type? like, mpeg-2 and mpeg-4 are .m2ts, but VC-1 is something else?), and ripped it the same way as the 2 movie BDs. However, the 3 big files...5G a piece, which obviously represent the episodes on that disc...won't stream to PS3 the way the 2 previous movies did.
Now I should mention that the 2 movies I own, and the PD disc is a rental...shhhh; is that a big, naive duh on my part? Is their like super-duper protection on rental BDs that AnyDVD HD won't break...or maybe the movies, are older (which they are), and PD is a pretty new release, and AnyDVD HD just isn't 100% on encryption yet? Or is it a case where the TV series disc maybe needs another file, rather than playing the straight .m2ts like a movie would?
Thanks,
CD