[mythtv-users] viewing problems with long shows on PS3

[Andre]

On 5 Jul 2010, at 16:12, greg at nodecam.com wrote:

> Andre wrote:
> 
>> I'm going to fire up the PS3 and check this out, apart from checking each
>> new PS3 fw release if they have made the player more robust, they haven't!
>> I haven't used it in anger for playback since the winter, maybe something
>> has snuck in to recent releases of MythTV or the PS3 that limits large
>> file playback!
> 
> I've had the same 4GB problem with Myth recordings forever, keeping up to
> date with PS3 FW releases.  That's just streaming from Myth's uPNP server
> though.  I don't use it much, but some 1080 H.264 recordings are too much
> for my regular frontend to play back before transcoding, so I occasionally
> fire it up if I want to watch something right away.

Well I gave it a try and you are all correct, plays up to ~29mins and that all! I noticed that sizes are reported incorrectly too, a 10GB 90 minute recording is reported as 3360MB, a 20 minute recording reported as 3100GB.

Some other recordings >8GB play throughout from Media Tomb so it's not the PS3.

I know this used to work because I used nothing else for TV (inc BBC & ITV HD) for a year or so. I stopped using the PS3 when JYA made vdpau (with studio levels) available as a backport.



> 
> I don't know how you have MediaTomb set up, but it very well might work
> around the PS3's 4GB limit in some way.  I'm pretty sure it can be set up
> to do transcoding on the fly for PS3, but I haven't played with it enough
> to know much beyond that.

Nothing fancy, I don't want transcoding due to the quality loss so it's just a bunch of files exported. I uncommented the extended meta data setting for MediaTomb as recommended for the PS3.

As I understand the PS3 files size limit is due to external use of a FAT filesystem, I don't know if the internal fs suffers from the same problem. If it does that might explain the awful quality of the PS store movies, overcompressed to fit in <4GB.

Andre