[mythtvnz] PS3 as a UPnP client

[Jonathan Hoskin]

>
> Recently setup our PS3 as a UPnP client for MythTV and was surprised
> when it just worked.


Yep - the picture quality of Freeview HD from a PS3 is shatteringly awesome.
Much better than anything else I have seen. I too got quite excited about
this about 12 months ago, but eventually gave up because of....


> Now if it wasn't for the audio problem (TV3
> recordings are OK), it shows real promise.


^ that.


> Anyone know of any
> workarounds to get it to playback the audio from the other NZ Freeview
> digital channels?
>

I tried a couple of hacks:

1. Transcode LATM audio to AC3 or AAC using cvlc via a Myth user job
immediately after recording, where channel != TV3, then repack the
unmodified video + modified audio into a new mpeg-ts container. This was a
FAIL because the resulting container from VLC was rejected by the PS3, which
is *real* bitchy about format compliance.

2. Tried using the unfortunately name but very handy PMS (
http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/ ) in conjunction with MythArchive
(now called MythLink): http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlink.pl - at the time
PMS didn't have the brains or the steam to do this on the fly, but things
might have changed.

Obviously both of these only work well with completed recordings. I like to
watch some of my stuff before it finishes recording, so I pulled the plug on
what was becoming a WAF-draining, time-sucking project.

Another feature that really blew it though is just how noisy the PS3 is,
compared to some of the ~silent PC / MacMini options available.

Would love to hear how you get on.

Jonathan
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