Myth PS3 Transcoding Info

DreamingWell Transcoding MythTV for UPnP transport to a PS3

Included here is the important sticking bits for archival purposes(in case the site is unavailable when I am ready to start testing), which I have not yet personally attempted, since I am in the process of building my Myth backend and converting from my ReplayTVs (5040 and 5540) with DvArchive to a HD Myth based system.

The following was posted by Travis Collins

MythTV has a builtin UPnP server that can serve recorded shows to the PS3's UPnP client. However, the format that MythTV records may not be directly compatible with the PS3s video client.

I use the following user job in MythTV to transcode recorded videos to a format that is compatible for the PS3 over UPNP. My PCHDTV-5500 card captures audio in MPEG-PS and the PS3 will only play MPEG-TS formats (thus the requirement to transcode the video file).

Be sure to change the two instances of "/storage/mythtv" to your appropriate mythtv video directory.

mythcommflag -c %CHANID% -s %STARTTIME% --gencutlist; mythtranscode -c %CHANID% -s %STARTTIME% -p autodetect -m -e dvd --honorcutlist; mv /storage/mythtv/%FILE%.tmp /storage/mythtv/%FILE%; mythcommflag -c %CHANID% -s %STARTTIME% --rebuild --clearcutlist;

This is script performs the following steps:

  1. converts the already created commercial list into a "cut list"

  2. transcodes the captured video to a tmp file.


  3. overwrites the original capture file with the new file

  4. rebuilds the commercial flags so that a normal myth frontend doesn't skip the commercials that have been cut in the transcoding

Enter the script above as a "User Job" and enable that user job on any recordings (under advanced options in MythWeb) you'd like to be able to view on your PS3.