Howto use PS3 presets with Dolby Digital

[eulaersivan]

Which CLI command line should I use when I would like to convert vob files to an mp4 that can be used on a PS3 but that includes Dolby Digital sound?

Best regards,

Ivan

[nightstrm]

I haven't tried, but I don't think MP4 files w/ AC3 are playable on a PS3... I think you have to convert them to AAC 5.1.

[eulaersivan]

What would be the CLI command line in that case (aac 5.1)?

[greminn]

Would it be "-aencoder aac+ac3"? Have i got that right?

Simon

[Cavalicious]

--help

[jjwatmyself]

I strongly reccomend doing AC3 passthrough to a mkv and then muxing to m2ts. This will play flawlessly on the PS3 natively giving you the original Dolby Digital 5.1 for audio and AVC (H.264) for video. If you use AAC there are issues over Toslink with 5.1 sound due to bandwidth constraints that can only be resolved with hdmi to an amp.

Here's a post that describes my current automated process in Vista.

I have be doing this in Vista with scripting and most of this will easily translate to a shell script. There are 2 scripts... a parent and a sub-script. This process will convert to a .m2ts with 1250 bitrate H.264 and AC3 pass-through. It isn't perfected but I am using it on a large quantity of rips with success. The translation to UNIX is very simple, so I don't think you need my help on that. I think the advantage to this is that you are able to control the movies individually. Global options are stored in convertmovies.cmd and movie specific options are specified by the variable %extra%. This is useful when the endode will vary from one movie to another, ex: which title. I have lots of UNIX scripting experience, so let me know if anyone needs help UNIXifying it.

masterscript.cmd

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@echo off
cd /d E:\Videos\H.264

set extra=-t 1
set indir="F:\Movies\MEMORY"
set movie=Memory - DVD
call convertmovies.cmd > "Memory.log" 2>&1

set extra=-L
set indir="F:\Movies\HarryPotter"
set movie=Harry Potter 4 - And The Goblet Of Fire - DVD
call convertmovies.cmd > "Harry Potter 4 - And The Goblet Of Fire.log" 2>&1

convertmovies.cmd

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set basename=E:\Videos\H.264\%movie%
set outfile="%basename%.mkv"
set chapfile="%basename%.csv"
set metafile="%basename%.meta"
set outfile2="%basename%.m2ts"

echo indir=%indir%
echo outfile=%outfile%
echo chapfile=%chapfile%
echo metafile=%metafile%
echo outfile2=%outfile2%
echo extra=%extra%
echo **********************************

echo Using %indir% to create %outfile%

"C:\Program Files\HandBrake\HandBrakeCLI.exe" -i %indir% -o %outfile% --crop 0:0:0:0 -e x264 --decomb -E ac3 -p -b 1250 -2 -T -x level=41:me=umh -U -F -v %extra%
echo **********************************

echo Creating %metafile%
echo MUXOPT --no-pcr-on-video-pid --new-audio-pes --vbr  --vbv-len=500 > %metafile%
echo V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC, %outfile%, insertSEI, contSPS, track=1, lang=eng >> %metafile%
echo A_AC3, %outfile%, track=2, lang=eng >> %metafile%
echo **********************************
echo Creating %outfile2%
"C:\Program Files\tsMuxeR\tsMuxeR.exe" %metafile% %outfile2%
echo **********************************
del /q %outfile%
del /q %metafile%