Re: The Princess and The Frog
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Originally Posted by Sean Laughter
I wish I knew how to transfer it to keep the 5.1 in the sound though, still haven't figured that out.
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I missed this part or your post.
If you have QuickTime PRO, you can do this and it is pretty easy and fast. Quicktime files (.mov) are already compatible with .mp4, you just have to change the container to the.mp4 format. Here are the steps for Quicktime PRO:
1 - Open the .mov file that you downloaded into quicktime.
2 - Go to FILE > EXPORT and in the dialog box that pops up, next to "Export:" select "Movie to MPEG-4." Then click on the "options" button next to that dialog box.
3 - On the options screen in the "File Format" drop down box select "MP4" (not MP4 (ISMA) or anything else, just plain old MP4).
4 - In the next drop down box, "Video" should already be selected so, leave it there for the moment. In the "Video Format" drop box (should be the next one down) select "Pass through." If "Pass through" is greyed out, go back to step 3 and make sure plain old "MP4" is selected (if anything else is selected there, Pass through will not work).
5 - Next go back up on drop box and select "Audio." In the "Audio Format" drop box select "Pass through" (just like we did with the video portion).
NOTE: I know the audio information at the bottom of the options screen says stereo but it also says pass through which means exactly that, the audio will be passed through untouch during this proccess.
6 - Hit the "OK" button on the Options screen. You should nowbe back at the "Export" dialog box.
7 - You can now hit "save." If you rename the file to something else, make sure you leave the ".mp4" at the end of your file name. The save process should only take a minute or less depending on your computer. A progress box should pop up and almost immediately jump to around 80% complete. This is because no video or audio conversions are taking place (hence the"pass through" setting), the only thing changing is the file container from .mov to .mp4 compliant.
The only other thing I do is physically transfer the video file to the PS3 (using TVersity) instead of streaming it.
I've done this with quicktime movie trailers for over a year and they all play perfectly from my PS3. The ones with 5.1 sound play in AAC 5.1. This is confirmed by receiver's display and the PS3's video/audio info screen while the file is playing.
There may very well be other ways of doing this with out QuickTime PRO but, since this way works for me I haven't bothered looking for another solution.
There is even away to do the same thing with .mkv files with a little program called mkv2vob. That program basically changes the mkv container to a vob container because the PS3 can play vob files straight from its HDD.
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