themediaman
Prominent Member
I hope someone has the expertise to help me.
As usual when I get an mkv file containing an HD movie with accompanying multi channel audio I convert it for playback on my Playstation 3 console. I do this with PS3Video 9 or if the file is less then 4GB, I will convert, or, repackage the file as M2TS.
The problem is I now have surround sound capabilities, and only recently discovered that PS3Video 9 changes the audio to 2 channel.
So excluding the files smaller than 4GB, I cant maintain the 5.1 surround sound when using PS3Video 9.........can this be confirmed please.....?
The beauty of converting to MP4 with PS3Video 9 is the file size is dramatically reduced enabling me to bypass the restrictions of the FAT file system used by the PS3 and my external HDD, meaning I can plug and play directly.
I have an idea of trying to keep the surround sound audio and smaller file size and that is to;
Convert mkv with PS3Video 9
Open both the mkv and the newly converted mp4 with mkv merge.
Uncheck the mkv video file and mp4 audio, leaving the smaller converted video file and the existing dts/aac audio.
Merge said files into an mkv , hopefully now with a much smaller file size.
Then repackage the new smaller mkv to M2TS.
I really feel as if I am babbling a bit.
Could someone confirm if this could essentially work? And any other advice on acheiving my goals would be greatly appreciated....
Thanks in advance......
As usual when I get an mkv file containing an HD movie with accompanying multi channel audio I convert it for playback on my Playstation 3 console. I do this with PS3Video 9 or if the file is less then 4GB, I will convert, or, repackage the file as M2TS.
The problem is I now have surround sound capabilities, and only recently discovered that PS3Video 9 changes the audio to 2 channel.
So excluding the files smaller than 4GB, I cant maintain the 5.1 surround sound when using PS3Video 9.........can this be confirmed please.....?
The beauty of converting to MP4 with PS3Video 9 is the file size is dramatically reduced enabling me to bypass the restrictions of the FAT file system used by the PS3 and my external HDD, meaning I can plug and play directly.
I have an idea of trying to keep the surround sound audio and smaller file size and that is to;
Convert mkv with PS3Video 9
Open both the mkv and the newly converted mp4 with mkv merge.
Uncheck the mkv video file and mp4 audio, leaving the smaller converted video file and the existing dts/aac audio.
Merge said files into an mkv , hopefully now with a much smaller file size.
Then repackage the new smaller mkv to M2TS.
I really feel as if I am babbling a bit.
Could someone confirm if this could essentially work? And any other advice on acheiving my goals would be greatly appreciated....
Thanks in advance......